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

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LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY : NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) THE STATE’S WATCHMEN GATHER ‘The annual conference of the health officers of the ' state here, today and tomorrow, cannot fail but be an ' important gathering of these officials. It is like the as- sembling of an army council to pian the defense of a state. For the health officials of the city, county, state and federal governments are like unto a standing army on continuous guard over the lives of the citizenry. They are part of that vast difference and contrast between that which is Orient, where life is cheap and its pres- ervation neglected, and that which is Occident, always imperiled by the pest-breeding conditions of the cast. They stand between their public and its most insidious enemy—disease—warding off pestilence and epidemic. Nobody stops to think that the country no longer is visited by the appalling outbreaks of yellow fever and . cholera which used to swecp in from the Atlantic and } Gulf coasts and reap harvests of death similar to the ) plagues that fall upon the Oriental lands almost contin- ually. The freedom of this country from such afflictions is commonplace. How to fight these once mysterious and incidious diseases has been solved. It is not by cures but by prevention that they are baffled. These methods of prevention are the arms with which this army of health officers, flung all over the nation, daily combats and | holds back the deadly invasion that would break in were it not for them. They stand at their posts everywhere | like the “watch on the Rhine” used to stand in the hymn, counseling that reassured state of mind, which, as said, | Accepts the nation’s freedom from epidemic as the com- } monplace. | Only recently the west coast was menaced by the pos- sibility of infection from the Philippines and China of spinal meningitis in epidemic volume. Ships from the Orient tossed over dead daily as they made their way ‘across the Pacific to California, Oregon, Washington and the British Columbia ports. There have been some cascs through the coast west and even some small epidemics, ; as in two cities in this state. But the disease did not Gain a foothold as did the mysterious influenza in the | days of the war, when the gates were left open and pesti- } lence on a vast scale was made possible by the tremen- dous slaughter and the living of vast bodies of men under unsanitary conditions and infecting privations. To the credit of the combined health services, be it said, the foreign visitation was thrust back at all ports on this side and the nation was spared a devastating plag*> of the dread meningitis. ‘The health officials of this state do not usually have 4 the great opportunities for service that fall to their - brethren manning the gateways to human and pesti- Jential migration. But what opportunities fall to them for the preservation of the health of their communities and their exemption from disease find them alert, re- sourceful and untiring. In addition, they fill a very im- Portart advisory function in their relation to the lay authorities of their communities, recommending health measures for the safety and welfare of their constitu- encies. They also carry along another work with whose sig- | nificance the public lacks actual contact, in codifying Tecords of both health and disease. Those statistics are /) as eyes to the watchers for the little clouds to come over f the horizon as large as man’s hand but expanding, if e left uninterrupted in their course, into epidemic, pest “and plague. And, always, their first line trenches are prevention. 3 What is prevented does not attract the attention that 5 what has to be fought and cured after it is in existence ‘ does, That is why the organized health forces work on , almost unnoticed, certainly seldom honored by some con- spicuous testimonial for their efficiency. Nevertheless |; they live adventure ia their own professional way and {| they give valiant service in that great cause of pre- j serving the public health. zy they enjoy theix visit to the state’s capital and de- rive good from their exchange of ideas of how best to @ischarge their great function. - THE LUCKLESS UMPIRE ‘The opening of the new baseball season brings up for study one of the most interesting of American phenom- @mm—the almost religious fervor with which the average citizen, seated in a baseball stand, will hurl vocal abuse at the umpires. Everybody knows that the umpires are earnest, con- sclentious men, chosen because they are able and honest. ‘Everybody knows that they can see what happens on the ficld far better than the man in the stands. Why, then, should the; be the targets for so much criticism? ‘The paychologist, perhaps, could explain it easily. He ‘would suggest, we believe, that the average man is under too much repression. At home, at the shop or office, in his automobile—everywhere, he is compelled to hold his and refrain from “talking back”—whether it be Gasoline anc olls there will be a battle, with the organ- ized moto. vehicle owners on the offensive. For a number of valid reasonr the public has little confiden-e in this industry. It has never been explained to the satisfaction of cr owners why gasoline prices in- creas w"'’ the demand, in violation of the laws of sup- ply and demand, and there are good grounds for sus- pecting price-fixing when 77 different prices for gaso- line prevail in the United States on the same date. The consuming public is entitled to an adequate sup- ply ‘nd is entitled to th benefit of any caving effected through elimination of overproduction. If an industry can make a profit in spite of overproduction, it can sell for less and make the same profit if the demand equals the supply. AN IDEA FOR BOYS Lumber used in a year for box and crate purposes would build a city of frame houses four times as large as the city of Washington, the department of commerce estimates. Most of this wood is used once and then burned as rubbish or otherwise disposed of without prof- iting anyone. This waste of timber resources has suggested to the department e way to kill two birds with one stone. Through the distribution of pamphlets and with the aid of playgrounds it will put a million boys to work this sprin, and summer building useful things from used boxes and crates or the lumber obtained therefrom. The scheme will put this valuable lumber supply in perma- nent u’: end will instruct a million American boys in the art o! carpentry. Moreover, it will kecp them out of mischief. This will be the first time a concentrated effort has been mad: te utilize such containers and the appeal has been made to the right group. Carpentry or building things comes as natural for the American youth as play- ing marbles or fishing and there will be millions of fingers itching for the department of commerce’s book- let, “You Can Make It,” which is to be distributed through the playgrounds and vacation schools in con- nection with the lumber saving campaign. Ideas such as this one go a long way toward vindi- cati-~ costly government bureaus in the eyes of the tax- Payer. A FLIMSY EXCUSE When a man stands convicted of a crime, and under sentence to prison, he always makes desperate last-min- use attempts to get out of it. Usually his final pleas and excuses are flimsy to the utmost degree. H:-rry F. Sinclair, who is at last faced by the terrible penalty of spending three months in jail for bribing a cabinet officer and stealing a hundred million dollars’ worth of oil, protests that if he goes to jail his stock- holders—many of them widows and orphans—would suf- fer loss. Hence, he said, the government should call it qui‘ and revoke his sentence. It is a long time since any argument as specious as that has been presented. One's heart must. bleed for the widows anrd orphans—but Mr. Sinclair, after all, is getting off easy. He has no kick coming. A cynic is one who associates the fact that ncople are living longer than they used to with the saying that the good die young. A writer says girls of today do not use cosmetics mere freely than their mothers did, but appearances are against him. A reaction seems gradually to be getting in and the newer tendency is to regard Flaming Youth as a still alarm. The troublé with a man who doesn't say anything is you never can tell if he means it or not. When the old-time business man took a nap he was asleep instead of in conference. Some people live 50 or 60 years with tight shoes always hurting their feet. | Editorial Comment | APPLE SALT (Time) Man, like all animals, needs salt (sodium chloride) physiologically. But his taste for salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peo- ples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs. Necessary and desired as salt is, it is forbidden those suffering from high blood pressure, Bright's disease, dropsy. Victims can forego the ingestion of salt. But its taste they crave. Chemists and pharmacists have long sought to compound a substance that tastes like salt but is harmless in these diseases. Last week, Dr. John Christian Krantz, Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficent drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests. It is called Eka salt, is made from malic acid, apple juice. THE MIDDLEMAN’S SERVICE (Detroit News) A prominent writer on economic problems recently said, “When the consumer in the city pays a dollar for that for which the farmer receives 30 cents, it is not hard to find the spot where the most intensive reform work will be done.” Viewed from the writing desk where the head of the family is making out checks for the monthly bills, it does appear that a spot has been located where a little re- forming wouldn't come amiss. But a lot of generaliza- tions seem easy until one begins to bother about par- Under particulars fall a score or more of services per- formed ey Beople Sho being ie 38-cpnis’ woerh Spee Sne for children. Does anyone necd to learn to play? Have you heard anyone recently rec- ommend a game, a book, or a play as @ good way to kill time? Killing time is not what the doctor recommends for the business executive in need of healthful relaxation; it is not what the doctor, the educator, or the rec- reation specialist recommends for the child, Too frequently parents give their first serious thought to the play hab- its their children are developing when they reach the adolescent age and they become apprehensive lest their desire for a good time may lead Ge DAY... Young Jane Thurston, daughter of of magicing.” like her father, or stage singing and dancing, we read in a} day's interview given out by young; Jane. We also read that Miss Jean Trumbull, younger sister of Florence Trumbull, John Coolidge’s fiancee, christened a new motor plane. The evening papers advertise Isa- dora Duncan in dance repertoire. Just as one becomes excited, reme! bering Isadora’s dramatic death a year or so ago, one reads in smaller type that it is her pupils who are doing the dancing. And here we read that Margaret Sangster, granddaughter of her famous writing grandmother by the same name, is new editor of “Smart Set.” ze & THE QUESTION One stops to wonder whether Jane and Jean and Isadora’s pupils and Miss would have attained Margaret any sort of fame sufficient to make | Most men, | them material in their own right, if they hadn't happened to be connected with more famous noah u Craig’ nificent “Macbeth” was produced in this country his name meant more as Isadora, Duncan's self-revealed lover THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | C hild’s Play Is Important Item in Health Program By act of congress and by proclam- ! their ation of the president we have all been asked to give thought today to our personal and community respon- sibility for the health of children. The American Child Health association, which has developed the May Day as Child Health Day idea, suggests that this year we consider in its health aspects the theme which embodies the old spirit of May Day—recreation the famous magician, hasn't quite de- { cided whether to go out for a career FLOATING KIDNEYS Floaing kidneys were more often found during the period when corsets were fashionable, but they are by no means rare even today. Approximate- ly seven times as many women as men are affected by floating kidneys, prob- ably because a floating kidney is us- ually associated with other abdominal prolapsus, a condition most frequently found in women because their mus- cles are usually less developed than those of the sterner sex. Many people have floating kidneys without noticing any symptoms of distress, and the floating kidney is Often discovered during the doctor's examination for other troubles. A Patient who has been told that he has a floating kidney may worry a great deal about the condition, but there usually is little harm produced by the misplacement of either one of the kidneys. : In most text books of anatomy, the kidneys are described as being about even with the bet the twelfth thoracic and the third lumbar vertebrae, with the right kidney on a little lower level than the left, just in front of the lowest ribs. Having examined many thousands of cases, my experience has convinced me that the right kidney is naturally located two or three inches below the place assigned to it by anatomists. Out of thousands of cases examined, I have found this to be the rule except with play in adolescence and in adult life. The youngsters who will be playing in sun suits this summer will, it is hoped, remain children of the sun, lovers of the out of doors, the rest of their lives. ~ The communities, schools and par- ents which are now investing thought and money in developing recreational programs which will insure the healthful participation of all chil- dren in games will realize dividends on their investment. and young people need more time for recreation than men and women. Not all of them are insured the leisure that is necessary. The 8-hour day is a long day for young workers and in a few states a 10 or an 11-hour day is destroying the capacity of boys and girls of 14 and 15 for free and happy play. The community can never hand back to them the losses they are now suffer- ing. Their recreational as well as their later life, so the recreations we learn | educational needs should be consid- to love in early childhood determine | ered when child labor laws are dis- the capacity for healthful, recreative | cussed. young people away from happi- {ness and health. Children do not learn to love books and outdoor life, to swim and to play tennis, to find expression in ama- teur dramatics, in music and in handicrafts in a day or a year or several years. Nor can inteliigent and resourceful parents alone meet the recreational needs of their chil- dren Every child should learn how to spend some of his leisure time prof- litably by himself, in the family cir- cle and with groups of friends and neighbors. How to live happily to- gether and at the same time retain and develop our own individual ca- Pacity can probably be learned on the playground more successfully than in the school room. Such a play program, we are now learning, should begin in the pre- School period. Just as the general health habits developed during child- hood are the foundation of health in which case both kidneys may be out of their normal positions. Sometimes a kidney may descend as Jow as the hip bone, so that there is danger of a serious blocking of urine because of the twisting of the ureter which carries the urine to the blad- der. This does not usually happen, but, should it occur, a surgical oper- ation is usually advised and the kid- ney is anchored into what is consid- ered its proper position. The danger of having this kink of the ureter oc- cur as a result of a prolapsed kidney is entirely unnecessary if the patient is willing to devote a moderate amount of time and energy in system- atically developing the muscles of the abdomen. If either kidney is found to be very low, the proper treatment is to go to bed for two or three weeks, keeping the hips slightly elevated and, while in this position, doing all of the dif- ferent exercises which will develop the abdominal muscles, It is a good plan to use a milk diet during this time, using as much as six quarts daily. This will keep the intestines filled and will assist in the formation of fat around the kidneys which as- sists in holding them in their proper Position. I would not advise a milk diet for this purpose unless the pa- tient is also willing to take the ab- dominal muscle-developing exercises. If the floating kidney patient is un- ‘Jable to take this rest in bed, some than as a great artist in his own ! city to remove the only old hitching name. Post in the city from before her door Funny world, this! We talk at| because it was receiving constant great length about individualism, and | publicity, and she was beset by tour- ists. yet all of us are inextricably attached to somebody or other who makes our| It is probably true that individual fame, our happiness, our peace, our | comfort and convenience is more im- everything much more than any of | portant to women than the preserva- our own puny and futile efforts. tion of history and mellow traditions. ** & ic that matter to men, too, isn't it? A rather human trai NICE JOB! A 14-year-old Chicago grammar school girl is involved in a wild auto ride in which one boy was killed and his three companious went to jail. Two of the companions were girls, Coletta, 14, and Gladys, 16. Coletta naively told how they got “some moon in a place near the schoolhouse where all the kids get it,” went to a roadhouse where they danced till three, “and had lots more booze,” then started out joy-riding. The car was driven over an embankment. Just one of many little stories in the day's news which make one won- der how anybody dares be a parent in these complex topsy-turvy days! ze * GEORGE DID IT! George Bernard Shaw has a little revolving hut in the garden of his home-in St. Lawrence, England. The hut is fitted with vita glass that lets in all the sun rays. The hut revolves | with the sun, so that the writer's back is constantly to the light while the hut is filled with sunlight. One's first reaction to this is apt to be something to the effect that men are inventors, pioneers, have the courage to create, or have created for them, the unusual thing, while a wom- an waits for Fashion to give the edict. And yet—the first umbrella, I be- eve, was first hoisted by a woman, and there isa woman in our own country whose all-glass home is the bait for hundreds of tourists, xk * > BOTH OF ’EM Speaking of tourists and bait. a Boston woman recently forced the be benefited by any kind of tive. Play with them was earnest adventure, full of risks and thrills. ‘They had a secret meeting place on the edge of a vacant lot, a fort built of packing cases. Here there were ‘ttacks and counter attacks. ,| When the watchman wasn't looking they fished off the docks down by the river and caught large messes of iskered catfish. PROPER PLAYMATES (By Alice Judson Peale) PRES SSS Chive totow seus /euuueuu THE BATTLE OF MANILA itle of Manila Bay and Admiral crYolR Holo, THe miLK-wace Just 31 years ago today naval battle in our war with Spain was fought. “Gridley,” to whom Dewey's storied order was given, was captain of the Olympia, Dewey's flag- MORE THAN HALF-Way IW cRoSSING We STREET !.~ THE AUTOMOBILE I Request ar You Tew AS BRIEFLY As You CAN, THE WAY You WITNESSED HE ACCIDENT, — AND WHY You FEEL THAT THe DRIVER oF THE AUTOMOBILE CAME on AT A FAST SPEED, SWAYING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE ROAD ‘To: “He OTHER, w= THEN STEERED RIGHT ito THE MILK- WAGoN AND.-DEMOLISHING ‘THe ENTIRE LoAD OF BOTTLED MILK fw THe DRIER OF, HE AUTO HAD oe SNorT ‘Too MANY ly “ UPSETTING IT, w IF You WILL PARDON THe SXPRESSION,~ | AND AS HE LOOKED AT “is WRECKAGE, He SAID. HE WAS “A CoMET “THAT RAN Wt THE MILKY WAY" fan AND YoUR HoloR, ~ WHEN LI REMONS TRATED WITH HIM FOR HIS CARELESS DRIVING, HE SAID IF I Swck Some cloves IW my Hose, IT WoULD Look LIKE A i BAKED HAM f, 2~EGAD, b THe RUFRIAN / those who are abnormally fat, in) WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1929 : died unless the patient tly remit Keeps his abdominal muscles strong “stutting diet” taken while lying in bed, this condition will sonal questions on health and Gist, addressed to bim, care ot the ‘Tribune. Enclose a stamped addresed envelope for reply. by using exercises while lying on the back, When the fattening treatment, alone, has been used, the patient will be in a weakened condition when he finally gets up, and the kidney will slip back into its prolapsed condi- tion. ; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS and Pep Question: Young Fellow asks: “Would you please tell me if there any cure for blushing? I have in with plenty of company all but still that doesn’t improve consciousness any. And me what is the cause of any pep or energy? I been like this as long member.” Answer: There is no nection between your bit your lack of pep. I hay pep and I am a good bi increasing your energy, physical exercise and develop a body. The aggressive extrovert knows it all hasn’t a blush in his tem. Many of the greatest int ual leaders in the world have good blushers, so don’t worry that. Some truly great men every time they are publi If that is what makes you ought to be proud of it. Bread and Milk Question: L. C. writes: give your opinion of a lunch and milk (hot or cold). dings, as corn-starch, tapioca or well balanced lunch foods?” Answer: Try using melba with milk in place of plain You will find it more wholesome. Puddings with sugar and as are never @ good far better when starches are use them in some other way the addition of sugar. Whiskey for the Lungs Question: Mrs. C. L. asks: you please tell me if of good whiskey and salt is heal! to the lungs if taken as a medic! And if anyone this will in the blood test?” Answer: There are medicinal preparations any definite effect upon lungs. If large amounts whiskey or salt are used it determined by a blood test, but, tests would have to patient’s blood both on he is taking the whiskey on other days when he some difference can be | “iat p Hes i hi iH TLE vil at ay yj i i BBee cate, Inc.) liceman, is sorry.” it raised a lot of false hopes. Nothing was said in it about the coast guard. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) "—Pussyfoot Today is the anniversary of the Miniter ect will displace bor. commerce. af ship. “ pidity Fighting started at dawn, after the | bor-eaving American fleet had entered the bay | throughout , J Pad Seca ~~. ‘3808 _ 2ye S849s4 4a5.8 s@ 2&2 U22 S2e80 Sx i Abe wih ORs ewe ouees cuca Swrs-emrm 4298 RapRas - ‘ » jo ii be of J. R in T E. M E to af r g - & Shoe