The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune Ap independent Newspiper TUE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune entered Company. Bis- at the postoffice at Bismarcs i eP j ; Daly by Cy iy Defty.by ; Weekly Weekly Weerly Member Avdit Bureav of Circulation Men.ber of The Associated Press ' ‘The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use ' for republication of all news dispatches credited to it of not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news ot spontaneous origin publ'stier herein. All rights of republication of al) other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN pee UAT ave Blt: NEW YORE .... ve. CHICAGO DETROIT Bidg. Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun‘y Newspaper) FALL TOO AND CLEAN UP Clean-up week is on. ‘This is a time for every good citizen to get busy. Sani- tation and tidiness are involved. It is just as important * that they should be respected as it is to pay taxes and to ‘. Vote. Cleaning up the premises, the sidewalks, the back alleys and the streets becomes of the first importance at this time of the year. ‘Winter is a time of slovenliness. Snow, rain, freezing | and thawing join to give the city a disheveled appear- / < ance when the spring sun skims away the dirty crust of iciness that the cold period spreads. Spring is ready to * adorn in the green of the grass, the rustling foliage, the “dazzling color of the flower. It can paint a picture of ‘wonder but it demands, like @ true artist, a clean can- ‘vas. That is why lawns and yards should be cleared of ‘winter litter and tidied up. Give nature a clean terrain on which to weave its fancies. There is another side to this cleaning up. It is the sanitary side. The health of the city demands that rub- bish, especially if it be dead vegetation, be got rid of around the house. Otherwise there is danger of decay, ‘and decay is a menace to health. If it does not menace directly, it can through the breeding of pestilential in- sBect life invite disease. So, for the sake of health and sanitation, it is important also that the entire city be ‘These truisms are recognized by the community to the “extent that the Lions and the Boy Scouts are enrolled "@S organizations to carry on the clean-up for which ‘Mayor A. P. Lenhart has called. Every individual citi- {zen should show the same commendable zeal which +these two organizations are exhibiting and should join fm the campaign of the broom, the rake, the shovel and ‘he flush. Especially should the owners of vacant lots manifest that spirit of community patriotism that will keep these from becoming a summer waste of weeds, the seeds of which are a standing menace to the beauty of lawns. One of the most effective forms of cleaning up, in fact, is to rid the town of weeds. Lawn owners will find that they can do much for the beauty and cleanliness of the city if they will free their lawns of dandelions. The flowers of these are briefly beautiful, but the plant is a pest as far as lawns go, for it means that verdure will be crowded out if the dande- lion is allowed to usurp the place of blue grass. All these forms of cleaning up have to do with the ‘esthetic side of a well-kept city. Cleaning up has a Geeper significance in the practical sense, as a phase of sanitation and health. Unless a city is kept clean it can- not rely on remaining healthy. There is no time like the spring when this is so apparent. If puddles of stag- nant water are not drained off and lawns made trim and neat and rotting vegetation removed from around the i Now is the time to strive for appearance and sanitary ‘i combined. Do not wait for fly-time to arrive, nor 4 Pestiferous mosquito. As homes and lots and lawns are cleaned up now, in that ratio will the hot season be made more tolerable. q Community pride should help to put this clean-up 2 rive over. Cities are judged by external appearance, gnd, as A. L. Bavone, state sanitary engineer, says in his *elreular, “no North Dakota community wants to gain a .feputation for unprogressiveness by failure to clean up.” is a 100 per cent feeling for making Bis- cleanest city again. THE ANTI-MELLON BARRAGE _* Senator Norris has won little public sympathy for his fatest move to remove Andrew W. Mellon as secretary ‘of the treasury, and from the first his chances of ac- omplishing his purpose have seemed most slim to the enlooker. Perhaps that explains why the public has to become excited over the controversy. management? Anyhow, were it not for an old law, Nor- & enator Norris is trying to inculcate in the Public mind the suspicion that Secretary Mellon is favoring the industrial activities in which he is finan- Glally interested through his direction of collections of Ameome taxes and duties. Thus far he hes failed in that have been due to bad management, so they do not stand ‘as an indictment of the system. President Hoover's plan of farm relief is founded on those cooperatives. He would place them on a firm basis that they may administer prudently and profitably the money which their members and the government may plac: in their hands. The administration plan of farm relief proposes to help the farmers help themselves through improving the efficiency of their cooperatives, and that, really, seems to bt. the only plan promising improvement in the agri- cultural situation that is at present attainable in legis- lation. Where farmers fail and their cooperatives go into the hands of receivers it would seem that agriculture's greatest need is business training, not equalization fees and debentures. President Hoover proposes to create a board of business exp-rts to make good business men out | of the nation’s farmers and cooperative managers. A PIANO AND A HOUSE An Iowa woman recently offered to sell her body to 8 medical school because of her poverty. Her grown chile dren, she said, gave her enough money to buy food; but, she added, “I am without -enough to pay $12 a month | rent, let alone the $6 monthly payments on the piano.” An interesting sidelight on human behavior, that. A woman so pinched by poverty that she cannot find $12 & month fo- rent—yet she insists on making her budget | include half that much so that she may have a piano! Her attitude is both natural and proper. Life is more than a matter of eating and sleeping. If a piano means more to her than a comfortable place to live, she is quite right in insisting on keeping it. STIMSON’S GOOD TASTE | Secretary of State Stimson deserves the thanks of the country for his common-sense method of disposing of the social warfare in which Washington was plunged when it discovered that it did not know just how to treat a vice President's sister. By refusing to let the State department act any longer as arbiter of social affairs, the secretary has shown good judgment and good taste. The government of a de- mocracy, one would think, has comething better to worry about than who is going to si® where at a dinner table. Let's hope, now, that the social climbers and million- aire snobs of the capital can settle their own. diffi- culties, Every cloud has a silver lining, and even an old suit of clothes has its shiny side. | Editorial Comment | MACHINE AGE NOT SO BAD (Christian Science Monitor) So many gloomy forecasts are being tossed off concern- ing the outlook for Western civilization, perhaps better known as the Machine Age, that it is highly refreshing to come upon a few kind words written in behalf of the modern machine and its social and economic effects. Thus far the Machine Age has brought in its wake a vast literature of deprecation and despair, but today those countries which frowned most violently upon this in- vention of modern industry are accepting its technique as inevitable, if not beneficent, and in the Western world the specter of millions of workmen becoming unintelli- gent robots, slaves of the machine which gave them con- ditions of health, leisure and economic freedom, is rap- idly vanishing. The very lack, to date, of ready and comprehensive data analyzing the influence of modern industrializa- tion upon the diverse groups of labor it has touched has made it easy for hasty critics to advance, unchalienged, all manner of dire comments, and to forecast, as in- herent in the Machine Age, the destruction of the skilled artisan and the enthronement of material idolatry. Un- questionably the machine has brought revolutionary changes in the industrial order, but to claim that these changes have worked an actual disservice to the modern. workman, physically or mentally, as compared with con- ditions which prevailed in the pastoral prescientific civil- ization now waning throughout the world, is a nebulous allegation which the facts do not support. Stuart Chase, who has devoted much research to the Social phenomena of mass production, points out in the ‘New Republic that the Machine Age, far from destroy- ing the talents of the artisan, has developed a vast variety of specialized skills of its own, and that while some mechanical arts have been supplanted by the per- fection of twentieth century tools, others have taken their Place. As a suggestive list of some of the new handi- crafts and the old, he submits the following: | ‘Once Upon a Time There Was a Lit THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE tle Dog Who Saw a Reflection—’ | . & cy nes co _—_™ Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was con- victed in New York federal court the other day on a charge of “sending obscene matter through the mails,’ for their compilation of a sex ques- seciological department. President W. W. Phelan denounced the ques- tionnaire as “a vile and filthy set of questions designed to corrupt youth.” The “vile and filthy questions” con- sisted of asking the college youth just how they regarded certain socially- labeled “immoralities.” { I remember seeing a straight news though her well-written and sane sex | bonnet to a school intelligent enough pamphlet, “The Sex Side of Life,” had been used by the Y. M. C. A. and other educational and social agen- cles for years. When “guilty” {to realize that people make social ta- boos endure or vanish, and that the best way to get an insight into the actual state of many of our accepted “do nots” is to see just what youth pronouncement of was read and she faced! thinks about this world made by its prison, her two sons of 24 and 28, | elders and what, in its own good turn, who were really responsible for her writing the pamphlet, as she put in written form the same explanations given their youthful questions, indi- | their continual and eternal “standing by” their mother, just as they always had. The “proof of the pudding’s in the eating.” and the proof of disputed educational methods, it seems to me, is in the type of person these meth- ods produce. seem to speak for their mother's hon- esty and sanity of method. Her host of “character witnesses,” cated it is apt to do about it. * * THE ADULT VIEW There's no use dodging the fact that practically all modern adults were given childhood impressions, now carried over into adult life, to the effect that the very word “sex” was degrading and all the facts per- | taining unto it thereto. And there's no use denying the fact that until these “old dogs” are | supplanted by their pups, raised in an age which accepts sex in a casual, Mrs. Dennett's sons testifying to the good she had done, | decent, scientific way, there will con- should have been another “proof of the pudding,” boing those who, too, have contributed to good. But no; a jury composed of lay- men, with an utter lack of any un-| derstanding of social or educational necessity, decreed that she was guilty, because she had dared be frank about sex. THE OLD HAND-SKILLS Stone working Spinning Pottery making ‘Weaving Printing Smithing Glass blowing Wood worki: The household arts Ship building ‘THE NEW POWER-AGE SKILLS Engine driving Machine printing work Track inspecting Radio engineering Chauffeuring Laboratory research Garage work Prospecting and drilling Steel construction work. Caisson work Electric power servicing Airplane making Telephone and telegraph Flying work Modern navigating Camera and motion picture Modern tool making work Accounting Production preplanning Stenographic work Sanitary engineering Barbering and hair dressing Medical, dental and sur- Publicity work gical work. Soft-drink mixing The surveys which Mr. Chase has made convince him that less than 4 per cent of the total population of the United States is engaged in work in which the work- man is bound to the rhythm of the machine, and that the positive trend of technical development toward even more finely developed automatic machinery is steadily reducing this ratio. session of material philosophy. The machine is bring- ing an economic democracy, and is aiding in overcoming soomnense imitation for a constantly widening section ety. THE NAVY’S COMMENDABLE LAXNESS (St. Paul Dispatch) The United States has just adopted as standard sub- . levice, having proved its ef- ficiency in preliminary tests, theoretically becomes a naval secret of the highest importance. No one could reasonably condemn the United States, at least, if it took the view that matters relating to the safety of its submarine crews were strictly its own business, and that other nations could experiment for themselves if they wished to accord a greater measure of security to the crews who man their undersca boats. Yet we see Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, granting the request of a foreign nation to have a ntative witness the “lung” experiments. We hear urge that the Momsen device is a human- itarian project, and as such should be shared by the world at large. That is strange brie military or naval, We had book.” step! * ek A COLLEGE PARALLEL ‘Two members Baptist University have been ousted -_* * AND IN BOSTON— In Boston the other day Theodore Dreiser was found guilty of writing and causing to be sold “an obscene It reminded me of the day I saw the play made from the book, “The American Tragedy,” and the comments of two flappers upon it, their eyes wide with horror, ‘Tell you it pays to watch your one of them commented, and how any “message” other than this could be read into the story and play of the tragedy of Roberta is beyond me, but again a jury of “his peers” Shrank back in horror at that red flag, the word “sex.” tinue to be such blots on our na- tional ‘scutcheon as the conviction of a great and good woman, the damn- ing of a great book, and a damper put pen wise and progressive educational eas, the national A ME BS THE BIRTH OF PEARY Today is the birthday of Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the North Pole and the man who determined that Greenland is an island axd not an arm of a vast Arctic continent. He io born May 6, 1856, and died in Peary credited most of his success to his practice of adopting Eskimo dress, food, snowhouses and manner of life in general. He believed that the centuries had taught these peo- ple how best to combat their rigor- ous climate and bleak surroundings. His first expedition to Greenland, in 1891, was marred by an accident in of the Oklahoma the ice floes off the island which tionnaire given young people in the | broke one of his legs in two places. A few months later, at a Christmas party he gave for the Eskimos, he outraced on snowshoes all the natives and his own men! Peary reached the pole, on a sub- sequent trip, on April 6, 1908, and claimed it for the president of the United States. With the flag of the United States, {account of the questionnaire when | Peary planted at the pole the colors | first published, before all the rumpus | of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fratern- {arose, and at that time doffed my | ity—into which he had been initiated during his undergraduate days at, Bowdoin College. THE USE OF TOYS (By Alice Judson Peale) ‘Those in charge of children tend to spoil their play activities either by preventing unorthodox use of toys or by permitting them to be used with wanton destructiveness. Blocks may be used quite properly for many things besides building houses and railroad tracks. They may be carted about in wagons as a load of bricks, or they may be delivered as groceries on various nursery chairs. But when the child throws them about or marks them with his cray- ons, they serve no good purpose for him and we may stop him arbitrarily. Dolls may be subjected to a hun- dred hardships but they should never be kicked or thrown. Crayons may be used for the most aimless scribble or for an incipient work of art, but never should they mark anything but paper or pasteboard. A hammer may be used for pound- ing blocks of wood or for drit nails but the child should not be al- lowed to break his own toys with it or to pound the nursery furniture. When a child is presented some new play material it is wise to allow him to initiate his own uses of it. At the same time we should watch him care- fully to see that he does not misuse it. If, within fixed lMmits, the child is permitted free use of his toys, he will get the maximum pleasure and benefit from them. In this way he derives the richest experience from his play and learns an essential respect for things. This is one of the many lessons which, learned in the nursery, gives the child the constructive attitude and the im- OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern WHAT AM I WRITING 2 MF ~~ OF GoURSE I EXPECT Yo To SCOFF, —~ BUT EVERY WEEK, FoR HE LAST THREE YEARS, I WRITE “Two PAGES OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY /- SURE!~SEcoND CHILDHOOD PROVES “THAT fu» HERE'S A TIP, LEAVE EVERY OTHER PAGE BLANK, So HE PUBLISHERS CAN FILL MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929 you will be rewarded with incresped Pee eh Sony Ah gal never before experienced. - ° The benefits from well regulated Dr, MoCoy will gladly answer questions on health and personal to bin, et the Tribune, BREATHE DEEPLY TO THINK CLEARLY One may live weeks without food, days without water, but barely a few minutes if the air supply is shut off. Everyone from the babe to the cen- tenarian depends upon a steady sup- ply of air for the maintenance of life. It has been determined by a series of scientific experiments that after a person has become asphyxiated the first tissues in the body to die are those of the brain and nervous sys- tem. Other parts of the body may exist for a comparatively long time without additional oxygen, but the brain, being of such delicate struc- ture, must have a constantly renewed supply. Anyone who finds his brain becom- ing sluggish and dull will undoubted- ly be able to increase his mental out- put merely by learning to breathe correctly. As long as life lasts, poi- nous carbon dioxide is being con- through the lungs, and the vital oxygen of the atmos- phere is taken into the body, thereby furnishing the system with this pre- cious element to give vitality and as- sist in correcting metabolism. A plentiful supply of oxygen in the blood is important, not only to sup- ply the requirements of the body but to act as a protective agent against many toxins which, unless oxidized, might cause serious illness or death. Most of us do not breathe deeply enough and it is a distinct task for us to breathe more deeply than we do unconsciously. It does not take much breathing to sustain life, but if we want to be radiating examples of vitality we must learn to develop our breathing apparatus to an extraordinary degree. Learn diaphragmatic control as taught to singers. Whether you ever intend to sing a note or not, this development of your breathing appar- atus will be of service to you regard- less of your station in life. It is not as much value to you to Practice deep breathing exercises every few days when you think about it, or when a lecture or an article re- minds you of breathing deeply, as it is to build this into your system as a habit which you will do unconsciously every minute of the day and night. After you have developed your breathing muscles, you will find that your lungs are working in measured rhythm and the normal inhalation of eighteen per minute is furnished you with twice as much oxygen as you had previously been obtaining, and the increased exhalation will cleanse your system of twice the amount of gases, While you are practicing your con- stitutional walks each day, practice breathing to the capacity of your lungs in and out every so many steps. It is not necessary to strain yourself. After you get the knack of inhaling you will find that it is very easy, and cultivation of more health and happiness. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 8 Anemis Question: H.M. F. A, asks: “If there are only two kinds of anemia— primary and secondary—under which tently you place simple ane- mia?” Answer: The term “i is often given by physicians to wha! could be more properly called secon- dary anemia which simply means that the anemia is to. some other disorder which is more import- ant, and the cause of the anemia. Calcium Question: Mrs. F. M. writes: “One time a doctor explained to me that we ossify with too much calcium and, together with deterioration of the tis- sues, gradually come to our ends, some more speedily than others, etc. But as we must have calcium to live, is there not some way to gauge. the amount in order to avold this ossifi- cation process?” Answer: The ossification from cal- clum is not due so much from cal- cium in the food as in the inability to eliminate it. Its deposits in the tissues is usually caused by chronic irritations from toxins. Other permanent can avoided to a great extent by the use of large quantities of non-starchy vegetables, fruits and distilled water from cereals. The sodium in foods assists in keeping calcium soluble so that it is not as likely to form deposits in the body. I am sending y y “If the pulse is normal, will the blood pres- sure be normal strument found in physician’ office) would determine the latter condition. aginative approach that are vital if | Bank, Fargo, is assisting J. R. Wa- he is to make the most of his grow- | ters to install bookk at ing years. the new bank. a e o | BARBS | ° o Cars without seats are suggested for use in New York's subway during the rush hours. Men may find this a | little inconvenient. 5 zee Has anyone ever suggested that those big archways in the Senate and House may be the results of wind erosion? zee Now that John F. Curry has been named chief of Tammany Hall, many of New York's political aspirants ving | probably will groom themselves for Curry favors. * * * A headline in a Kansas paper says “EDITORS CAN PLAY GOLF NO’ But the story was only about con- flicting dates of two conventions he- ing svcelaniienedt out. s* that was auctioned off by Mark Hanna and given away by Our remote ancestors had no chins, a says a scientist. Probably they are | Drse for several decades. the invention of some barber. John Russell, Valley City, is here on business for a few days. E ww IT WILL NoT BE PUBLISHED UNTIL AFTER I.AM A FOND. 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