The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 4

PAGEFOUR. The Bismarck Tribune Ap tndependent Newsprper THE STATE'S ULDES1 NEWSPAPER (Established 1023) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- N. D., and entered at the oustotfice xt Bismarck second class mai) matter. George D. Mann ............... Presideit and t.biisher > lassen ec eet tides cht acta DSSS ty Suvecription Hates Payable in Aévance Daily by carrier per year ... vee $7.20 Daily by mati. pes year, «in Bismarck) . woe Tad Daily by mail. re: year. (in state, outside Bisinarck) ....... + 6.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakote ... 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail. tn state. per year - Luv ‘Weekly by mail in state. three years 380 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, (hi . i Der year Member Aadit 6 Men.ber of The Assortated Cress The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ali news dispatchve credited to it Of not otherwise credited in this newspaper and als the loca) news 0! spontaneous origin publ'siie: herein All rights >t republication of afl other maite: berein are also reserved. Forcign Representatives G. LUGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO Tower Bidg. (Official City, State and Coun‘’y Newspaper) —— HAS REGULATION FAILED? There can be a too hasty assumption that mere regu- lation by public service commissions, or other govern- ment agencies, is, in itself, a guarantee of protction of the interests of the consumer. It may be that present methods of regulation leave much to be desired. The remark of a prominent economist that there is now the “comforting assurance of adequate state supervision” is quite contrary to the fact. Many commissions are over- worked, understaffed and given too narrow powers, while others seem to have been working for the welfare of the public utilities rather than for the consuming public. Charges, which may or may not be well founded, are now before the Federal Trade commission to the effect that clectric power rates to domestie consumers, which are under government control, are excessive to the de- gree of exorbitancy. If the author of these allegations can substantiate them to the satisfaction of govern- ment and people, they will stand-as a staggering indict- ment of public control. However, it is difficult to follow the argument that the way to cure the shortcomings of public regulation is to plunge head first into public ownership and operation. If government cannot control, what reason is there to suppose that it can make a better job of management and direction? A more sensible thing would be to set about curing the defects in the existing system. It has not been a failure, but like other human institutions, it is doubtless not only capable of improvement, but sub- ject to adjustment from time to time to meet new con- ditions. To the power interests let it be said as a word of warning that public control has protected them against competition and made their present profits possibic. Should the public turn to that old-fashioned price-fixer, competition, as a last resort, rates and profits might drop. MOVIES ENTER NEW STAGE There is an industrial law that no revolution in a Single trade can be kept a private matter. There are inevitably reverberations in other quarters, largely un- foreseen in the flush of enthusiasm for the novelty that causes them. It seemed not long ago that teaching the films to talk Promised just another vein of public entertainment, which would be ingeniously worked and developed for the good of all concerned, and withcut complications ex- cept to screen stars not gifted with a good stage voice. The unforeseen reverberations are already being heard, Particularly by theater owners and cmployes. Theater musicians are alarmed by the threat to the livelihood of themselves and their close-knit organization involved in the talking and musical film. ‘ Hundreds of theater organists have lost their jobs by the substitution of film music for sheet music. Sympathy strikes and threatened walk-outs have been of no avail to this unfortunate craft. And with feature films carrying their own symphony orchestra via the talkies, the theater orchestras have reason to be vastly excited. It is the same old story over again of the machine supplanting the man, but, though the United States has gone farthest in this substitution, it has always found new work for the supplanted hands. Instances are the spinning jenny, the type-setting machine and the machine that is now doing the work of the telegrapher. Nor is there much comfort in the prediction that the talkies will lose ground as quickly as they won it. The Present is frankly a period of experiment with the ar- ticulate celluloid, and out of it the talking film will achieve its destiny, exactly as the motion pictures won their place beside the legitimate drama. STRAW HAT CROP While the glories of nature are being extolled by the Poets let sight not be lost of the fact that the straw hat Season likewise is near. The early birds are beginning to make their appearance with suitable comment from the Kentucky press. By Derby day the season will be reach- ing its full glory. Straw hats were first made or worn by the Romans. However, history records that it was not until many centuries later that straw hats really became popular. It was in the eighteenth century that Mary, Queen of Scots, became interested in the wearing of straw hats. It ‘was Queen Mary who popularized the straw hat. She employed a number of straw plaiters and returned with them to Scotland, where her people were trained in the art of straw hat making. Styles changg but the straw hat seems secure’ in its Position. Its return is always welcome for, like the dog- ‘wood blossoms and the robins, it brings with it sun- shine and gladness. EDUCATION’S CASH VALUE There 1s no fixed measure of the relative value of trained men and of untrained men. The dean of a Bos- ton college fixes the average minimum income of the hhigh school graduate at $2,200, and of the college grad- uate ~t $6,000. His figures may be accurate a5 averages, are untrained men earning more then trained the New York police have suddenly grown more viligant and efficient than usual. What makes the thing worth noticing at all is the mere fact that it is so unusual for a large American city to go that long without any mur- ders, London, on the other hand, would not consider such a record 'n any way out of the ordinary. London, you see, has a police furce which is divorced from Political inter- ference and which is operated by the very best brains available. It also has the advantage of a legal system in which there are precious few loopholes for the escape of a culprit. Until we can copy such features on this side, we will continue to think a homicide-less week a notable achievement. GENIUS Few human beings fai) to sucpect themselves, at some period of their lives, of being geniuses. Although the idea languishes with time, as so meny genial illusions are like'y to do, enougt: ef it survives to mate all curious as to whet this Uning called genius really is end why it happens. Ceniv. is on ive thing. Few possess it, and those rho @ IMiy aro long in tie forgotten graves before | ther genit:s is discovered by the world: Pull many a gem of purest roy rerene ‘The dark unfathomed caves of occt.n Beer; Tul: many a flower is born to biush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the @csu#i cir. Getius is a previous jew, % Goes met beircy its hiding place by a dacaling epafsce. Mistery shows that genius is usually co “shy and then vp with itceli” that the preeccupied werd is unable to dixcvcr and label geniuses until too late to homer tac:m in the fiech. Eut Thomas A. Edison, the popular discovery of whose sculus was not a post-mortein affair. and Johns Hopkins univers:ty now think tacy com copture and label genius. Ectcon proposes to find the brightest youth in the United Staics and make hin heir to his own geniis. Jcuns Hopkins university is to establish a “school for gcatus. If the uiiversity fils {% seopl with true genius and Mr. Céison finds a reel gcnius—end if time confirms their judgment—it will be o feat no? usworthy to rank with the electrical wizard's great ccientizic discoverios. It's a funny civilization that will adopt nice rules of warfare and leave murder to choose its own style. At that “debenture” wasn't nearly as hard as the names of some of the Mexican rebels. It's a losing proposition for a man to speculate on | what his wife intends to do. A principle originates in the brain; a prejudice is a sore spot. The most dangerous work in this language of ours is “yes.” Editorial Comment GUSSIE AND 12-MILE LIMIT (St. Paul Dispatch) Gussie, a valuable Guernsey cow, property of the United States Northern Great Plains experiment sta- tion at Mandan, North Dakota, has been seriously and m riously ill. Veterinarians diagnosed her trouble as paralysis. Then the officials of the experiment station made a round of the pasture where Gussie had been taking nourishment previous to her indisposition. There they found that some inconsiderate neighbor had dumped over the fence a sizable quantity of the mash remaining from home brew. Gussie had been partaking. ‘The poet has sung, “The stag at eve had drunk its fill where danced the moon on Mona's rill.” Some one should tell the poets about Gussie. It is evident that she went beyond the 12-mile limit in her grazing. BREAD PILLS FOR FARMERS (Duluth Herald) There is a type of patient, familiar to every physician, who doesn’t think the doctor is doing anything for him at all unless he gives him loud remedies. He may need only a little attention to his behavior and his eating habits, but he thinks he is neglected unless there is something dramatic about his treatment. That is why doctors are said sometimes to prescribe bread pills and drugs that have an able taste that suggests authority, but whose only virtue is that they will do no harm and may improve the peace of mind of the patient. There is also a type of doctor who profits by playing upon that foible of human nature; who indulges his Patient and often really helps him, if there isn't much the matter with him, by spectacular treatments that deeply impress his mind and, by suggestion, lead him into better health. But that type of doctor is more familiar in politics than he is, these days, in medicine. Apparently there are 47 such political doctors in the United States senate. That many senators, including all but two of the Democrats and 13 rather radical Republi- eaue, fetned to put the debenture feature into the farm relief bill. fi The debenture feature proposes to pay crop exporters ® bounty. Not the farmers who raise the crops, but the merchants who sell them abroad. The hope is that this subsidizing of the exporter will somehow get reflectd in better prices for the growers. This is, probably, a very far-fetched hope. Like the equalization fee, it is a hocus-pocus bit of melodramatic medicine, such as the quack doctor and the Indian medi- cine man use to impress the minds of their patients. The president is against it, and would veto it if it came to him. The house of representatives did not even con- sider it, and will reject it when it comes to it. The forty- Seven medicine men of the senate know all this; they are just shadow dancing for the edification of the farmer. who seems to be as much in need of rescue from his fool friends as he is of relief from economic disabilities, GERMANY’S NEW WONDER WARSHIP (Minneapolis Journal) The naval sharps of the powers are worrying about the Ersatz , Germany’s new wonder warship. They say it will be able to travel faster and shoot farther than any battleship afloat. It will have greater sailing radius, ‘| too, so that two or three such cruisers, traveling to- gether, could sink an enemy fleet from a safe distance, and run away as they picered. ‘They would be too fast for battleships to catch and ip Stone for Sule 9 ttack. man builders have accomplished this miracle, within the limitations of the Versailles treaty, chiefly by use of Diesel engines. And since Germany is not party to the Washington treaty, they were able to arm the Ersatz Preussen with 11-inch guns that will shoot 17 miles, whereas the signers of that treaty are restricted to eight-inch guns. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE And Eventually We Trust Congress Will Get Around to Relieving ‘City Farmers’ a Bit! | | , Ion HI cts AW: 1M JUST DIGGING PSH worms! There are said to be more than! 200.000 “wild children” in Russia. | These are children who would be; known as vagrants in this country, ' but who have been turned into; prewling, marauding, dangerous lit- tle beasts by the savage rigors of a | country in transition pangs. Thousands of these children were deliberately abandoned by their par- ents when the struggle for bread be- ; came too much for self alone, Iet | alone children. This is the surprising phase of | “the wild children” picture—that the paternal instinct is only as strong as ! we believe it to be when its own needs | have been cared for first. * * * “SHE WEARS 36” The famous “keeping up with Liz- zie” game is invading the realm of; health and physical standards, ac-/ cording to Dr. Morris Fishbein in his | “The Human Body and Its Care.” “Not all of us are either Grey-} hounds or Newfoundlands in our body build,” he writes. “The Ameri- | can represents a combination of nu- merous races and peoples and we have among us the tail, thin product of England; the round and broad German; the short and active French; the stalwart Norwegian, and the ex- | citable Latin. Certainly it is the! height of folly to think that such var- ied people should all attempt to de- velop a certain body form.” * * * WHY IS IT? And yet, he paraphrases, because Mrs, Jones is 5 feet 6 inches and; weighs so-and-so, Mrs. Smith insists | that her utterly different dimensions shall conform to Mrs. Jones’. Perhaps Mrs. Smith has to con- form if she can ever “find a thing in the world to wear.” Fashion design- ers and clothes manufacturers have a little way of forgetting that the American woman is a diverse type; it is they who insist on pouring us all into the same mold, and in order to procure duds to cover the frame- work, it is necessary to emulate the anatomy of the model they sclect. * *k ROUGH HANDS Dr. George W. Leonard, a wealthy divorce against his wife, Ethel, the | other day. He named a co-repsond- ent, but his wife in her counter pe- tition said that her husband com- plained that he could “not take her out socially”; that he was ashamed of her rough hands and her lack of education. She told the old story of the pov- erty of married days and her “stick- ing by the ship” while everything was anything but hunky-dory, with her | husband trying to work his way through medical school, while she raised babies, did her own house- work, and borrowed money from her father. * oR OX OLD DRAMA “Now he's ready for a fresh and pretty woman not worn out by over- work in the lean days,” she says. It may all be very true. This do- mestic human drama is enacted again and again. But because it has been one of our traditional human j dramas for so long, one is occasion- ally prone to wonder if wives haven't heard the story so often that some of them are apt to dramatize them- selves in that situation when they may be much more to it than just that. | H r BARBS > A burglar left $3000 in jewels in a coat he pawned in New York. Men now have equaled women’s records in almost everything. x * * A man often takes a day off on his birthday, but a woman isn't satisficd with anything less than a year. es. * * There are times when a man's cheek is his fortune. ‘ se * Why hasn't anybody thought to suggest sending a couple “of furni- ture installment collectors to Ger- many? * | *x* ok Chicago gunmen are said to have established a proving ground for ma- chine guns on an island in Rock river. They are said to be enthus- jastic over the system which beats proving in court all to pieces, ** * United States district attorneys to prosecute only “good strong cases” under the Jones law. Now bootleg- Gers will be putting more water than ever into the stuff. physician of Chicago, filed suit for + Mabel Walker Willebrandt told | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) MUSIC (By Alice Judson Peale) With jazz coming in over the radio from noon until midnight and the Phonograph standing ready for ac- tion in the corner, the modern child can scarcely escape the impression that music is a noise made by a ma- chine. He fixes a disk or turns a dial and a flood of music envelops him in a pleasant sound bath, or forms the ac- companiment to the stereotyped gyrations of dancing. No longer is the average child made to undergo the torture of old fash- joned music lessons. In this day, when he is permitted to assert him- self, he rebels effectively against spending endless hours blundering at a difficult instrument for which he has no special talent, playing at the kind of music which he never will Jearn so well that anyone, including himself, ever will enjoy listening to it. Gone these several years past are those gatherings about the family pi- ano when very bad singing was in- dulged in and enjoyed by all. To- day the idea of the members of the family singing together would be em- barrassing if it were not so funny. It seems, then, as if musi¢ were doomed to become an increasingly pale and passive satisfaction in the lives of our children. Is there any avenue of musical expression left open to the average child? Is there any way in which we can help him to take an active part in making and enjoying music? In almost every community there are glee clubs scouting for members. gene schools have student orches- ras, sing or to play any gimple instru- ment he fancies, even if it is a drum. or the despised ukelele. No matter haw humble the music he makes, it is better for him to en- Joy an active part in its production than to doze through “appreciation lessons” of the best classical music or to struggle hatefully with an in- strument which he never will master. MORE FROM LESS Farmers of Hoke county, N. C., raised 600 more bales of cotton in 1928 from 3000 less acres of land than in 1927, Z~Go if wi ME AS A steve, AND I'LL spui SSNS w~ EGAD, THAT 1S A Ss AND MEASURE PROFITS WITH Nou fue “THE HooPLE LOST PET FINDING CORPORATION," _ “VWDEA Jue AFTER WE'RE WELL ESTABLISHED, TLL PUT IN THE BERTILLON SySTem oF IDENTIFYING Lost DoGS AND CATS, THRU AN INDEXED GALLERY OF PHoTOGRAPHS WM-mM~- THE PossiBILITIES are . UNLIMITED Je OUR BOARDING HOUSE Y'kow WHAT MATOR 2. I “THI 4 TH’ LAST “TEN YEARS, You've» BUMPED YouR HEAD So MucH, IN Low ceILING CELLARS,” I's MAKING You BATTY fx THAT IDEA 1s NUTTER - ‘Tha otso’s scleme PARTNER, iY HALP THE MARVELOUS. oF MENTS fue GELATIN So I Won'T THINK,” NK DURING ‘ MAKING Ice OUT oF MELT fs The Diesel is an internal combustion engine, the ordinary gasoline motor is, from com, the nition. It The We can encourage our child to} the miracle HEAL $4 D | EPIDEMIC CEREBROSPINAL pal appears Cerebrospinal mening’ suddenly, although it may be pre- ceded by a few days of restlessness, headache, backache and loss of ap- petite. It begins with a headache, severe chill and vomiting, and pain- ful stiffness of the muscles at the back of the neck. There is some ri amas iets a headache increases Stouene to light and back. rigid straightness or it may be arched backward with the heels almost touching the head. The pain is se- vere, and the arms and legs may con- tract in spasms or tremors. A com- mon feature is for the eyes to be crossed so that they cannot be di- rected together. In some cases the rigidity is so severe that the body may be moved like a statue. The muscles of the abdomen and face do not usually suffer from the contrac- tions as severely as the muscles of the back and extremities. Great ae ee is present near the spine. P Delirium usually occurs near the onset of the disease which may deep- én into @ stupor or coma after a few days. The temperature is irregular but aay, reach 105 be Seoad or even 108 degrees preceding 5 The skin is frequently covered with @ rash which is responsible for this disease being sometimes termed “spotted fever”, although cases oc- casionally occur without this erup- tion. The rash may appear very much like the rash found in typhoid. The white blood cells increase from normal amount of 17,000 to 25,000 or 40,000 per cubic millimeter. -The vom- iting which is usually present at the onset may subside or increase in se- verity. Constipation usually exists and the spleen may be enlarged. The duration of the disease may vary from a few hours to several months. Most of the deaths occur within the first five or six days. A favorable turn is the reduction of the fever and increased intelligence. A sudden fall of the temperature, how- ever, is a bad indication. Convalescence is slow may lead to serious complications, as pleurisy, inflammation of the ears and par- otid glands, pneumonia and cephalus, inflammation of the deafness. Because of its hydro- eye and resem- blance to typhoid fever and some | cessi cases of pneumonia, a diagnosis is sometimes difficult, but can be us- ually determined by a doctor from various reflex indications or from a lumbar puncture. ‘The proportion of deaths is us- ually high, especially in children be- low the age of two. A severe onset is a bad indication. The patient should be carefully iso- lated to prevent a spread of this dis- ease. Precautions must be taken against the development of bed sores in convalescing cases. Hot applica- tions over the back and the persistent use of enemas as often as two hours MONDAY, MAY 18,1929 DIET ADVICE 2 Frank Mc 3 ofa” Mag 0 Mlb advisable. above g g : Seg. 5EL32e degieke | a ; ht sf removing Teaving scars? I have about a dozen black ones on my face.” Answer: Moles on the face are, as @ rule, very easy to remove by & physician with the electric needle, and if done properly will leave abso- lutely no visible scar. BZ LAA Se sus /eeeuuw JAMESTOWN FOUNDED ‘Today the anniversary of the Col. C. A. Lounsberry, and special land agent, arrived from the east to visit his Bismarck friends: tion. Attorneys Alfred Zuger and B. F. Tillotson left today for Perham, Minn., for a few days’ fishing. Thirty-two students will be grad- uated from the Bismarck high school June 4 with Curtis M. Johnson giv- address, ~ | ing the commencement. * “Women must always be on their mettle prof inasm' the public never uch as fails to point out their mistakes.”—Judge Florence E. i * s * “American world position must not py a) eceive the weaker na- accepting @ make-believe disarmament agreement which will never be ratified by the United States.”—Representative Britten, Ill- inois. se © “We have our fanatical drys and our wets and both contrib- liam tax commission, left today for Minot to attend the state auditors’ conven- to the sad comedy oe.