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

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Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun‘y Newspaper) —— $$$ IS GLORY OUT OF DATE? ‘The Mexican revolution, launched with pompous bom- bast by florid generals in gay uniforms, is petering out in @ most dismal fashion. Looking quite unmilitary, such chieftains as can get away are legging it for the border, leaving their hopes of glory and fame to wilt under the hot desert sun. Beaten from the start, the revolutionists now make @ sorry spectacle. They had such high hopes, and they would have won so much glory if they had only been luckier and abler. But they weren't—and now, instead of glory, they are thinking chiefly about how to escape Calles’ firing squads. The dream of glory is a dangerous thing for a man to harbor. It has led more than one citizen to death and destruction, although it has led others to success, fame and riches. One is tempted to wonder, however, if it isn't a dream that is about done for. ‘This is becoming a prosaic age. Glory is becoming a commodity that is hard to get. It may even be that it is @ thing that has served its purpose and will be discarded entirely. Consider: there is no glory comparable to that of the military hero. All other forms of fame pale beforc the fame of the man who has been a brilliant fighter. Yet, in a few more decades, it is quite probable that war will be abolished from the face of the earth. What will an ambitious man do for glory then? 'To be sure, there are other ways of getting fame. Sci- ence, public affairs, aviation, industry, the arts—all of these offer chances for high renown. Yet the glory a man cen win in these fields is dim in comparison with the glory of the great soldier. Lindbergh, to be sure, reached the highest of peaks because of his flying—but, in a few more years, aviation may well be so stabilized that it witl offer no more chances for spectacu- Jar, daring exploits. So, if the soldier passes, except as a sort of glorified policeman, the field will be pretty limited. Probably we shall have to evolve a new idea of glory. In the past it has taken the crash of battle and the pomp of military display to stir our sense of apprecia- tion. Perhaps, if war is done away with, we can reach & saner view of things, and can understand that killing his fellow men, even for a noble cause, is not necessarily the finest thing a man can do. Then, it may be, we can gauge the value of other kinds of service better, so that we can see that the race owcs more to some of its scientists, philosophers, poets and re- formers than to all the generals that ever lived. NOT BASED ON ECONOMICS It has been clearly indicated many times that the people as a whole do not want the government to en- gage in business, nor do they wish to trust a govern- mental unit with the power of fixing prices. There is a quit.: general impression that the government is already too much in business an1 that government interference with business has gone beyond reasonable limits in many instances. So the recent supreme court decision invalidating the ‘Tennessee law authorizing state officials to arbitrarily fix the retail price of gasoline upholds a principle well es- tablished in the United States and more firmly estab- lishes th. rights of private business. The decision should serve as a check on the activities of a larce group of peop:: who are constantly seeking to Teg.!ate economic conditions by giving governmental ‘units the power to fix prices or otherwise regulate private enterprise. Ho 7ever, not even a cecision by the nation's highest tribunal can so easily dispose of the popular belief that gasc‘ine prices are not always fair and equitable, a be- Nef whici inspired the Tennessee law and made gov- ernment control of the gasoline business seem inevitable. Having n. information upon which to base judgment on the fairness of the profits of the producers, the consumer has not complained that the price is too high, but his suspicions and indignation are aroused every time gas Prices ris with consumption. The layman knows enough about the law of supply and demand to understand why it should be cheaper to deliver a large quantity of any commodity than a small quantity. But the producers would have the public believe that it costs them more per gallon to produce and deliver gasoline when the consumption is greatest. THE DEADLY SAFETY PIN If you have a small baby in your home, yot: will be in- terested in what Dr. Chevalier Jackson, Philadelphia specialist, ha: to say about babies swallowing foreign substances. Dr. Jackson's clinic has extracted all kinds of things from the throats of children—safety pins, peanuts, toys, candy, pennies, buttons and even jewelry. And here is what he says: “Safety pins have killed more babies than firearms. resulting from lodgment of objects in the throats and Jungs of children who have been permitted to put such things in their mouths.” ‘That bit of advice ought to be pasted up in every home. chances are they would have successfully weathered the storm; and saved from harm the lives depending upon them for protection. It was a terrible price to pay for littl: false economy. Only within recent years has the nation awakened to the deplorable condition of many of its public school buildin: 5. Millions of dollars are borrowed and spent each year for the replacement of buildings which have long been fire traps, incubators of disease and toys of the elements. Not only have they been inadequate but whoily unsuitable. The responsibility of the state does not end with mak- ing ducation free. If it . compulsory that the child at- tend school, it is the duty of the state to protect that child while it is in its custody. Too often this duty is evaded. ACCIDENTS ARE UNNECESSARY Progress was attained in railroad and factory accident prevention not by prohibiting the inventions but by min- imizing as far #s possible their injurious consequences. After years of development, railroad accidents were brou;* t down to very small percentages, and in the fac- tory all manner of devices were designed to protect the laborer, while workmen's compensation and accident in- suranc: reimbursed him if accidents did occur. It will be the same with the automobile. While the automobile is more than a quarter century old, present- day traffic conditions are comparatively new and it is with them that the nation must deal in accident pre- vention. Doubtless the time will come when automobile acci- dents will be proportionately as rare as railroad wrecks. A thousand and one betterments of every kind have been introduced and more are on their way. These include greater care in granting licenses, more drastic penalties for carcless driving, and improvements in highways and traff'c regulations. It is gratifying that the automo- bile associations are devoting much attention to the basic principles of safety and responsibility in the operation of motor cars. After the highways have been made relatively safe the world will have to undertake the task of making the air- ways equally safe. Rapid transit has been man’s merely for the taking. PADDED PAYROLLS AT SEA One reason why the United States government's ven- ture in the merchant shipping world was conducted at a loss may possibly be seen in an announcement recently made by the business men who took over the Leviathan and 10 other ships, that 300 men would be lopped from the payroll forthwith. William L. Bunker, vice president of the new line, said that at least 100 men could be cut from the crew of the Leviathan without in any way impairing the efficiency of that vessel. Cuts in other crews, he added, would be made in proportion. Anyone who has ever had experience with municipal governments is aware that padded payrolls are a common feature of government business. If such a phenomenon existed o. the government's merchant ships, it is small wonder that they operated at a loss. BEAUTY IN PRISON Probably it is a good many years since men first began making jokes about woman's pride in her personal ap- pearance. And, beyond doubt, such jokes—justified or not—will continue to be cracked for years to come. The other day a 55-year-old woman pleaded guilty in New York to a grand larceny charge and was sentenced to spend from two and one-half to five years in prison. She asked the judge for one favor; could her sentence be postponed a week so that she could first get a permanent wave? ‘The judge consented, and the woman went to get beau- tified before departing from the sight of men. Seldom has the power of the human wish to look as attractive as possible been more strikingly shown. BIG TALK, BIG ACTIONS When U. S. Senator James Couzens, sued by the treas- ury department a couple of years ago, announced that the money involved ($10,000,000) did not interest him at all, and that if he won his suit he would give it all to charity, most newspaper readers probably set the re- mark down as an empty gesture and forgot about it. But Senator Couzens is a man of his word. He has just created a $10,000,000 trust fund for the promotion of child health, welf2re and happiness, with the stipulation that all of the money must be spent in 25 years. ‘We are used to large-scale charities. But Senator Couzens’ way of establishing this one was unique. Here is @ man who not only can talk big, but can back up his words in a big way. | Editorial Comment | SEEKING THE LIGHT (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Science is said to be hot on the trail of synthetic luciferin, “Cold on its trail” might be better, for luci- ferin is nearest cold of all light. If the product ever is made cheaply it may result in another revolution in lighting systems. If we were able to bottle light and in- stall the luminous containers to give light continuously, recharging only at extremely long periods, the illumina- tion problem of the world would be settled. But that is all as yet remote speculation. Luciferin is the strange substance contained in the tail-lanterns of fireflies and in glowworms, etc. Thus far forty groups of the animal kingdom and two groups of plants have been discovered that generate luciferin and therewith’ supply their own light. The latest belief is that the firefly’s glow is caused by the “burning” of a minute quantity of this luciferin “oil” that the insect renews between flashes by some se- If what the firefly does in infinitesimal amounts, hui synthesis learns to turn out in large quantities, the results should be astounding. Luciferin might then become another in the long chain of illumi- nants from the torch through hard oil lamp, tallow dip, candle, kerosene oil, and the various electric devices. THE RECORD OF FARM LEGISLATION (Philadelphia Public-Ledger) Once more congress is about to take up the weary and seemingly endless job of providing farm relief. The sen- ate agricultural committee grinds away on a new farm relief bill. Since 1920 a steady stream of farm bills has poured into Washington and # condensed record of what has happened since that year shows the following moves and measures: 1921—Emergency tariff act, agricultural credit act, packers and stockyards act and grain futures act passed. . » » Commission of agricultural inquiry made a long re- Port on the farm crisis and is causes. 1922—Capper-Volstead act, exempting market co-opera- tives from anti-trust laws, enacted. President Harding called a national conference of fai business men and officials. .. . Fordney-McCumber tariff, raising duties on farm products, passed. 1923—Intermediate credit act approved. 1924—First McNary-Haugen bill introduced... . An- other agricultural conference called which created the irom. cents... . Hearings begun by another presi- dential farm conference. 1925—Farm conference gathered solemn session once a month, peruse, examine dren’s month, decide which will elevate and entertain sies of the world the most, and lo, the selected packed and sent on its way rejoicing to the child “whose parents do the: right thing by it.” Full-page ads inform all the par-; ents of the world something to the | effect that they have not done their duty to the child merely by feeding it spinach, keeping its nose wiped and seeing that darned. child’s spiritual life, its whole fu-/ ture, dependent upon the right start; it gets in THOSE “AWFUL” TALES We are reminded of the spiritual : ravages wrought upon “a little plas tic mind” by such “atrocious tales’ as that of Little Red Riding Hood; we are reminded of nights of cold ter- ror inflicted upon a child who re- members wolf and to eat you up!” “And the awful story of Bluebeard, | > and the bad moral involved in Cin- derella, which really points no moral | at all because a young girl stayed out | late at night—why, she got a prince by doing being rude and leaving the party in a hurry, had such So the precious unborn flowers of maturity will be volumes “personally selected with care and diligence by child cx- perts,” and brave indeed will be the parent who dares overlook this “ad- vantage” << x ‘When I was a child the very poor family on our street was scraping the meat bones in order to get one more stew out of them in order that the children might have the decreed child “advantages” of the day in the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WTHINK SHE SAW US organ lessons. Sometimi with just lette: together who will sit in gan lessons. and dissect all the chile |’ ris juvenile literature published that volume is wrapped and ; fine elements. its stockings are | They are warned that the | #™mple mind. childhood, is at stake. Aside from a critic: * * * those horrible tusks of the 2 the savage cry, “the better | other things, with the it and by decepiion and by | agreeable odors. without telling her host ‘I a lovely time’!” only books permitted these bologna. ** * ernment. himself. * * for its young. give the baby beer. wouldn't stronger! s* * EGAD, MACK,» You RELATED AN IDEA YESTERDAY IN Jest, ABouTy ME STARTING A Losr Doo FINDING COMPANY, w—~ Ad IW PLACE oF SEEKING A Lost cANINE For THe REWARD OFFERED, To CHARGE So MUCH AN HouR HUNTING FoR THE Doce UP To THE Time IT WAS FoUND Ju BY Jove, LAD, AFTER THINKING iT over, I SEE THE PoSsiBILITIES oF SUCH A ComPANY, AND THK IT 1S A SPLENDID IDEA, ~ “AND Not A JoriNe mMaTteR J SOOT s the mother literally had no hat at all, but little Mamie was on the elocution teacher's recital pro- gram and did a pantomime on little | Scotchman looking for his bal Wilie's baptism saying all the words s of the alphabet, * OR OK THE TIME WILL COME— : It's no guess, but a safe wager, that The only funny thing about it isin another two or three decades, to- | that somebody didn't think of it be- | day fore. But now there's a book-of-the- | off month club for children. group of child experts have been “advantages” ultimated for the ing, and the sacrifices made in ‘A select | Order that they may have them, will iseem as inane and the sacrifice as utterly wasted as those which gave hopelessly unmusical Willie his or- book-of-the-month club which thousands of parents will | . | believe it their bounden duty to pay the little Johnnies and Su | for because this is a day which ex- coriates parents who do not strain every nerve to pay for everything of- fered their children by the wily com- mercial world, may have some very But—it occurs to me that practi- cally all our great men and women tell in their own life stories, or it is re- | Vealed in their biographies, that they {Were left to browse in their fathers’ libraries—libraries for the adult, and not the juvenile ; erage parent's foolish insistence on + procuring for its children everything offered and said to be good and nec- j essary for juvenile life, is the mild wonder if, after all, when Topsy just allowed to “grow up, anyway jthe results aren't about as good as | When too much science is applied. BARBS i o| Perfume is now being concocted for automobiles, cabbages and a lot of moting sales and_ neutralizing dis- It may smeil like heliotrope but bologna will still be Mussolini now hoids cight of the 13 cabinet posts of the Italian gov- Probably there are days when Il Duce doesn’t feel a bit like A Chicago couple were divorced af- give an infant anything If some people wrapped themselves in death. xk * -* *& fiable homicide. TOO MUCH FUSS paper. Chester was thrilled. primarily cit of the av-| wash them, and ho everything away ni ticular closet shelf. *!think of dreary. conventional drip. idea of pro- tion on technique. only a few colors, like misuse of materials. Surely they expression. ~ WHY, L WASN'T KIDDING Ju A comPANnY to FIND Los’ Docs AN’ cats, HAS ALWAYS BEE A PET IDEA oF MWe /e we GET A PAL IW TH? OWL'S CLUB To Go WITH You AS A PARTNER IN TH? “HooPLE LoST DoG FINDING CORPORATION “, AN? TLL FIGURE UP A PROMOTION SCHEME ‘To GET You STARTED IN Business J, thought they would freeze to That ghost reported seen on an English golf course probably was some Scarface Al Capone's dentist was murdered. Police must consider, of course, that there are cases of justi- (By Alice Judson Peale) Having heard the virtues of what are known to educators as “free play materials,” Chester's mother bought him a fine set of paints. These were six jars of paint, an easel, three good brushes and a pack of large sheets of Before permitting him to begin Painting his mother gave him a large spread newspapers on the i nursery floor, explained how to pour out the paint, how to-avoid mixing, how to hold the brushes and how to finally, to put ly on a par- So impressive was her emphasis on all these details that Chester, eager to please his mother, concentrated most of his attention on them. By the time he was ready to paint pic- tures he was so involved in compli- cated manipulations that he could nothing to paint except little houses, ich he made over and over again, while he worried over each blot and When we give our children new play materials it is wise to give them those which are simple enough to be handled without too much concentra- If we chose to give them such complex things as paints we must let them begin with and we must be ready to put up with a good deal of messiness and what may seem to us For the time being we must resign | ourselves to ruined brushes, spotty ter quarreling over whether or not to | clothes and general disorder. The ex- perience will retain its genuine worth for the child only if we give him a minimum of technique while we allow him complete, uncritical freedom of WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929 HEALTH “DIET ADVICE & Dr Frank Mc . D Coy She Sast ble. 70 Salle Ae 08 MEATERED SOIC eee Ee ORE | SELF-RELIANCE your thinking for you. Secure their An original thinker is a rare indi-/ advice, yes, but decide for yourself. vidual. He may aera be any taken in his opinion, but he usu can create a place for himself in “Who's Who.” To achieve greatness, a man must first learn to think along original lines. He must develop self-reliance. Every really successful man or woman has learned this art early in life. The man who is weak and wavering in his thinking and in his method of han- dling the problems of life rarely en- joys more than mediocre success. If you would give your child a good start in life, teach your child to de- cide for itself—to act on its own in- itiative whenever possible. You can give your child no greater handicap than that of pampered attention while he is still young. Every individual who has accom- plished something in this world has had problems to solve in his early youth, Would you expect the physical muscles of your child to develop if you forbade him to crawl or walk? Why, then, expect his mental strength to develop if you do not permit the child to do its own thinking? Men- tal exercise is certainly as important as physical gymnastics. Children want reasons for doing things, and when a child asks a ques- tion, it should be given a reasonable and truthful answer. Of course, the child requires a guiding hand from someone who has had more experi- ence, but nevertheless, the child should be allowed to make its own de- cisions whenever possible. Many parents make the mistake of saying, “Well, I don't want my child to go through the difficulties I had when I was young, and I am go- ing to give him every opportunity. I am going to make life easy for him.” The danger of this policy is that it may lead to a spoiled and pampered child—a child which will grow up in- to an impossible adult, unable to function amidst the harsh realities of the world. People who are handicapped by too much parental guidance in youth usually become too dependent upon others as they grow older and unable to rely on themselves. In deciding the many problems of everyday life they surround themselves with an imagin- ary world of their own liking. They are timid and often useless. They may, however, so endeavor to overcome this handicap that they re- bel against parental authority and, in fact, authority of any kind, and be- ee Be self-reliant, and you will be strengthened in all of your endeavors. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Acne Question: Mrs. N, R. writes: “Am greatly pleased with the results from using your diet for acne. The hard lumps have almost entirely disap- peared, and the face is clearer and smooth now. However, purplish marks or scars from the lumps re- main. Will they gradually disappear, or is there any treatment I could use for them?’ Answer: I am pleased to know that you have obtained such good results in overcoming your trouble with acne. The purplish marks are liable to re- main for some time—until the con- gestion has entirely cleared up. A treatment with hot and cold wet ap- plications should be of assistance and if this does not entirely overcome the trouble, these spots should be treated with the ultra violet or actinic light. Hominy Question: R. H. K. writes: “Kind- ly give me your opinion of hominy. May it be combined with any food, and how may it be served?” Answer: Hominy is a very whole- some starchy food, but should not be combined with acids at a meal. The best method of preparing it is to soak it in water for several hours, then rinse it two or three times in hot water to remove any traces of lye or other irritating materials used in its Preparation. It should then be slow- ly boiled for about a half an hour and seasoned with butter or cream only, Varicocele Question: H. J. B. writes: “I would like to know if you have a diet which would help me overcome a bad case of varicocele. I have been oper- ated on but am still bothered with it.” Answer: I am sending you an ar- ticle on varicose veins which out- lines an ice treatment that would be very beneficial in your case of vari- cocele. It would also be well for you to follow a body-cleansing regime through fasting and dieting, and take come extremists in their endeavor to} cold sitz baths for about five or ten make themselves believe that they are | minutes before retiring each night. different. (Copyright, 1929, by the Bell Syndi- Do not depend upon others to do| cate, Inc.) ONO “If you want to justify the shooting of @ human being on the charge that jthe car he is driving contains alco- holic beverages, then, to be logical, you should call out the navy and send it out 12 miles from New York and sink the Leviathan.”—Represent- ative LaGuardia, New York. ese “When I am married, we shall have children, and I will rear them in the English way—brave boys and gracious girls. And my marriage will be a sacred thing, which will never, never be broken.”—Lya De Putti, Hungarian film actress, * * * “The gangsters and other criminals of today have no courage.”—Grover Whalen, commissioner of police, New York City. BATTLE OF PALO ALTO On May 8, 1846, the battle of Palo Alto, Tex., was fought between 2,000 American troops and 6,000 Mexicans. The battle, resulting in an American victory, was looked upon in Washing- ton as a Mexican invasion of United States territory, since the Polk ad- ministration had set up a claim to all southwest lands north of the Rio Grande river, after settling the north- west boundary dispute with England by treaty. The battle was the immediate cause of the Mexican war, declared less than a weck later. It was a feeble effort on the part of Mexico to pre- vent General Taylor, United States commander in the southwest, from Pushing on to the Rio Grande. General Tayloz’s political star be- gan to rise at Palo Alto. He became the first military hero the country had had in a long time and this finally brought him to the presi- dency, Taylor led American troops to vic- tory in four of the ten chief battles of the Mexican War, including Monterey and Beuna Vista. General Winfield Scott won the other six. The Mexicans won no major victory dur- ing the entire conflict. if Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO *x**e * “When the men of the coast guard sent their shells into the hull of the I'm Alone a thrill of appreciation ran through my veins. It was Ameri- can.”—Deets Pickett, research secre- tary of the Methodist Board of Tem- Perance. Prohibition and Public Morals. (Outlook.) ** & “Radio, thus far, appeals only to one of man’s senses—that of hearing —and this fact puts the use of the spoken language in the control of a few, to be heard by the many. And these few are the radio announcers of ‘| the country.”—Milton J. Cross, staff | announcer for the National Broad- ° casting Company. T ey tha “IT am conv! it le who Mrs. F. B. Morse has as her guest |Claim the movies are demoralizing her sister, Mrs. Reed of Portland, | this generation cannot back up their Ore. vague generalizations with facts.”— — Professor J. L. Holmes, University of A. Y. Bayne of the Minneapolis Columbia, N. ¥., psychologist. contracting firm has closed a deal cn eee. mit the Sounty comamisloners for BEN’S BIRTHDAY e construction of three iron bridges| London, May 8.—Everyone bl} across Apple creek. knows of London’s Big Ben the clock whose chimes are broadcast all over the world by radio. It has just celebrated its seventieth birthday, and is practically as good as new. The works are in perfect condition and the only sign of a run-down condition is its cracked bell, which Cceveloped at we very beginning of the clock’s ca- r. Attorney-General Huston of the territorial militia is spending a week here. Governor and Mrs, Church and family and Mrs. Cornelius left today for Huron. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Brigadier General Jacob Kline has been assigned to the staff of the gov- ernor of North Dakota in connection with the national guard. The L. Lamb Lumber company, with yards at Bismarck and many other towns on the Missouri slope has sold its yards to the Union Lum- ber company of Minneapolis. F. G. Mattoon, agency clerk at Fort Berthold, has been appointed superin- tendent of the Indian training school at Fort Lapwai, Idaho. Mrs. J. D. McDonald, has returned hes @ visit with friends in Conova, TEN YEARS AGO visitor in the city today. Dr. and Mrs, F. R. Smyth lett yes- terday for where the doc- sith attend '¢ ieating oe the Sine Mrs. L. A. Whitney, Minneapolis,| Some of the girl: spending the summer here with | as a picture ete tte I (syed son, J. L. Whitney, [usly frame of mind,