The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 4

F ream PAGE FOUR THE BIS. MARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspiper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mai) matter. George D. Mann . Suoscription Rates Payable in Advance Buy a mail, per year, (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year, Un state, outside Bisinarck) .... Datly by mail, outside of North Dakota Presideat and rublisher $7.20 Weekly by mall, in state, per year .. Weekly by mail, in state, three years for . Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, PEF YEAT ..scsseesersceeceecscescessessecswees Member Audit Bureau of Circulation ee Men.ber of The easels Ley i aan Associated Press ts exclusively ent tor republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news ot spontaneous origin publ'shec herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. | chdh + 7A nes ee eT ey Forcign Representatives G. LOGAN ahd) Ave Bide. NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. . CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. 1.50 (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) PT SERS ERS RNR DT SEE HOOVER RELIEVES LIKE ROOSEVELT While the senate dallied with the problem of farm re- lief, President Hoover has moved incisively again—very much in the spirit and method of Theodore Roosevelt in the great eastern coal strike of 1902—to obtain a reduc- tion of pressure in a critical wheat situation. The president has induced the eastern railroads to cut grain freight rates on export wheat from the midwest to the Atlantic seaboard. Midwestern roads have followed suit by instituting similar cuts in rates. some of the inconvenience and objections out of present | Conditions here. Something, it seems, will have to be | done. | A GOOD SCARE GONE It is no surprise to be told that the communist move- ment in America has dwindled in numbers from 35,000 members in 1919 to a present enrollment of between 5,000 and 7,000 members. Its philosophy thrives where living is hardest and in lean years and difficult times; but prosperity has been our lot for five years and prosperity is a natural prophylaxis for its teaching. Labor in general is too busy to be greatly interested, and where the boring-in movement has taken hold the result has been such long and inconclusive disputes as that in the New York garment trade, from which most of its agitators now have been expelled. We are simply the most capitalistic people on the face of the earth, in the sense that more of us in proportion to our total have a stake in the community, own our own homes, possess | the conveniences of life and are interested either in busi- ness of our own or in joint enterprises through owner- ship of securities. If only for considerations of self- interest, the American looks askance at the salesman of the new social order. However, we should be sorry to see the communists among us dwindle away to nothing. For many of our publicists they have proved a great comfort. With a little ingenuity the origin of any legitimate grievance of labor may be traced directly to the doorsteps of the Kremlin, and any natural disturbance in the status quo attributed to the presence of numerous, albeit shadowy, agents of Moscow in our midst. Thus they preserve the publicist from the necessity of thinking, of examin- ing the social disorder for real origins and real reasons for growth. They are a great convenience, especially to their pro- fessfonal foes who will be out of work when the last of them has disappeared, MAN LIVES FASTER AND LONGER Medical men meeting in Chicago enumerated five sim- ple rules for longevity which, according to experts, would "These cuts are made in the hope of stimulating ex- port of the vast accumulation of wheat stores in the mid- west, with greater crops coming to harvest in the next few months, thus increasing the threat of a surplus crisis. It is estimated that 350,000,000 bushels of last year's enor- mous wheat crop still are on hand. In addition, cheaper transportation for Argentine and Canadian wheat is an- other threat to cluttering the world markets and choking up the market in the United States, where demand has been declining. So President Hoover has brought about an agreement among the eastern roads to lower grain rates for this emergency. Canadian roads have been doing this for ‘some time, and attention has been called to the reduc- tions as constituting a virtual bounty, but not out of the United States treasury. The conference at which the cut in rates was agreed on, according to President W. W. Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania railroad, was instigated by President Hoover, A cut of two cents a bushel in eastern trunk grain freight rates was the result of the president's in- itiative. A few days ago the Kansas City Southern system an- nounced a reduction of seven cents a 100 pounds on ex- port wheat consignments to the gulf ports. Both reduc- tions are calculated to stimulate exports of the present carry over of 350,000,000 bushels of wheat by placing American exporters in more favorable competitive posi- tion in the Liverpool markets. It has even been suggested that the eastern trunk roads might find it possible to reduce grain rates per- manently. Certainly they have not been gainers by re- duced shipments, while in Canada there has been a rush to export so tremendous that ten upper lakes grain ves- sels are tied up at Ontario ports with cargoes agere- gating 4,000,000 bushels and elevators all the way to Montreal are jammed with grain seeking exit by the sea. American exporters, in fact, have been finding them- selves at a disadvantage in the Liverpool market because Canada and the Argentine could lay down competitive grades of wheat at about seven cents a bushel less than the American price plus freight. The emergency re- ductions approved by the carriers does not wipe out this advantage but only helps to reduce it. The present situation would be greatly aggravated by the harvesting in July of the anticipated 900,000,000 bushel crop should the present carry-over stock still re- main in the storage bins throughout the west. Storage capacity is already well filled. ‘The rates action comes at a time when the northwest- ern states are fighting a proposed increase in grain rates that would saddle on them, it is estimated, $12,000,000 additional annual freight charges, the increase for this state alone being calculated as $3,800,000. The action of the president and the eastern roads should be of some as- sistance in enlightening the western roads, the interstate commerce commission and the public generally as to the justice of the protesting wheat growers and their home states. BISMARCK’S TRAFFIC PROBLEM Motors at rest offer a problem as baffling as those in action. To park or not to park is the daily question in every live town in the United States. In most com- munities garage and outdoor parking space are inade- quate to meet the needs of those who motor to town to business by day and to the theater by night. Curbstones suddenly became a national nuisance, and likewise a national necessity, if automobiles are to be used at all in crowded centers. The slowing down of traffic by long files of parked cars is not the only re- sultant inconvenience. The transition of the motor car from a luxury to a necessity has been so swift, sudden and universal that municipalities have not had time to adjust themselves to new conditions which have followed in its track. And the most optimistic are not so sure the “best minds” will be able to solve this problem. All of which sums up conditions with which the city commission will endeavor to grapple next Monday eve- ning. The commission found the subject too big and complex to deal with at last Monday evening's session, for when the questionnaire cards recently circulated were taken up, they presented new problems instead of solving the old. These problems are whether to permit night parking and what time limit to place on day park- ing. Not so simple when put to the test of action. The business and professional men of the downtown district failed to send in decisive recommendations. All were in favor of restricting the crowding of the curbs with parked cars, but some asked for exceptions in their favor. There was the rub. ‘ And another rub was whether the public garages have the required capacity to house all the cars that are parked around the curbs at night. A business man who investigated said the garages could not have taken care of more than a third. ‘Thus, what is known as a “crimp,” in the vernacular, ‘was at once put in one item which the Association of Commerce expected to see solved in this year's program. ~ The city commission may find a way out of the im- increase the life expectancy from 60 years to 100 years. The trouble with rules, however, is that they are easy to promulgate and difficult to follow. It is wise to endeavor to educate the general public up to standards of living conducive to longevity, but such an educational process is neces: The man in the strect cannot watch the process of pro- longing life, so adopts an eat-and-be-merry attitude which embraces the philosophy of permitting tomorrow to take care of itself. Medical and surgical science is in the golden era of life prolongation. The average child born in England this year will live 12 years longer than its grandparents. The average life span in the United States has increased nearly a score of years in that many years. There are many contributing factors in the increasing span of life, among which are the advances made in medical and surgical knowledge, improved public sanita- tion, disease control, protection of the infant and a higher standard of living. So when one smiles at how-to-live-to-be-a-hundred rules, the smile is for the rules and not for the idea of lengthening man’s stay in this life. The silver lining for the future of the race lies in science, rather than in the observance of rules compiled by those who have lived to be a hundred in spite of themselves. As fatal accidents tend to cut down the life expect- ancy, the rapidly lengthening average span of life is the more remarkable for being contemporary with an age of industrial and traffic accidents numbering into the thousands annually. Editorial Comment A WEALTHY STATE «St. Nicholas Magazine) to be found the nation’s largest reserves of hardwood timber, few of you, probably would think of Louisiana. But such is the case, and in the production of yellow pine and cypress this state leads all others. 3 Louisiana also leads in the production of fur and rice. More than 2,000,000 bushels of oysters are taken there | cach year, and 21,000 alligator hides. Its mineral wealth is by no means small. Beds of salt 3,000 feet thick and of great purity are found. It pro- duces about 24,000,000 barrels of petroleum a year, and | its natural gas reserves are the largest of sulphur, gyp- sum, clay, building stone and lignite. Although only a fifth of its area is under cultivation, this land of sugar cane, cotton, rice and corn also grows wheat and a wide variety of fruits. WHAT OF THE SMALL TOWN SCREEN? (Minneapolis Journal) In the revolutionary shift from movies to talkies, there is concern for the smaller towns whose reaction has been enormously augmented by the facilities of the silent screen. Huge sums are being expended to equip the silent screen for sound effects, but thus far such expendi- tures have been possible only in the larger communities. Meanwhile the hamlet that boasts a movie house, even if it is only a converted store, a town hall, or the “opry house,” is going on with the films that convey the words by means of titles. Villages with populations as small as three hundred have their movie entertainment once or twice a week, or oftener according to drawing power and patronage. The movie, indeed, is one of the big factors that has made over life in the small communities and on the farms. Must these communities lose their movies? Is produc- tion to be confined henceforth to the talkies that syn- chronize the spoken drama with the action on the screen? Will the cost of equipment come down so that talkies will be as available as the present movies, to the small ex- hibitor? Or will the silent films continue to be pro- duced, for the exhibitors whose clientele is rural and semi-rural? Let us hope the problem will be solved to obviate loss | | rily slow in its effects. | If you were asked to name the state in which are | ALLENE SUMNER, School principals, answering a vo- thousands of their girl graduates who don’t go on to college will enter a training course of nursing. one of the very few professions which demand no more than high school ed- ucation as a starter for specialized training. Nursing is one profession not dependent upon changing times. There always has been, and always will be, human sickness; it changes in type, but science with all her won- ders has never been able, and never will, to eliminate it. * ek * WHEN NURSES WERE “SCUM” The new life of Florence Nightin- gale, “A Lost Commander,” by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, should be read by every one of these girls! entering the nursing profession. They | should realize that the honor and} respect given them was hardly won | by a woman who was derided and in- | sulted and almost crucified for dar-' ing to “stoop” to minister to the hu- man body. A reading of the hardships of those } who went before and smoothed the way makes us optimistic over a be- lieved improvement of the race, till we recall what happened to Mrs. not so less a thing than the vitupera- tion huried at Florence Nightingale. * * * THESE WILY ADS! Motor car makers are putting out propaganda especially for the house- wife. They are doing it subtly and adroitly by appealing to her hus- band’s sense of economy. They are telling papa that if mama has her own car for the household marketing she can enlarge her gains, and in due course of time save the price of the car. * * WE LIKE ROMANCE And now we'll fall for that ob- vious bit of deceiving logic, because we want that car! It’s a known fact This is} one dollar? | News Note: ‘Thomas A. Edison Looking for a Bright Young Man to Carry on His Work’ | believe that if we went ferth and pur- chased Dewdrop cream we would look like Queen Marie. But we want to believe it. The ads are our ro- mance. We know we're being kidded, but we like it—and go forth and buy. x oe Ok SHE MUST SAY “YES” Did you know that a law in North Carolina says that if a girl or widow is asked to marry a bachelor and re- cational questionnaire, estimate that | fuses she shall be fined not less than $100, serve no less than six months on the public roads, and pay a poll tax of Did you know that in Connecticut bachelors are taxed a dollar a year, and in Florida $100, “the money to be paid to worthy spinsters who reside in the same county as the bachelor?” It's hard to believe. But Dr. Al- fred Hall-Quest says that it's so in his new book, “It's Not Our Fault, or ‘Why We Can't Be Good.” Perhaps the absurd laws aren't en- forced, or perhaps the bachelors play , fair and safe. CZ LAIISSSSSSS A FARM RELIEF MOVE On May 15, 1862, a radical piece of farm relief legislation went into ef- fect—the department of agriculture came into being as a separate branch of the federal government. The head of the department was |Mary Ware Dennett the other day—| not made a member of the presi- dent's cabinet, however, until 1889. He and two others—the secretary of commerce and secretary of labor— are the only cabinet members not eli- gible to the presidency by succession in event of the president's and vice President's death, resignation or in- ability to hold office. The law es- tablishing the order of succession was Passed before these three cabinet of- ficers were created and never changed. The department created 62 years ago today grew out of a voluntary distribution of seeds begun by the commissioner of patents in 1836. Congress recognized this service as praiseworthy and three years later appropriated $1,000 to be taken from that very few of us, men or women, believe the ads. Very few of us be- lieve that Queen Marie really uses Dewdrop cream because she endorses it and is pictured with some chased silver Jars of the lotion upon her dressing table. And very few of us the patent office funds and used to extend the work. Since that time the functions of the department have multiplied tre- mendously until now it is one of the most far-reaching of all the branches of the federal government. “Crime in one sense is a revolt of a certain class of young fellows against conditions.”"—Henry Ford. “If law is wrong, its rigid enforce- ment is the surest guarantee of its repeal.”—President Hoover. “It is not graceful to refer to epi- sodes in political history that are not nice and complimentary.”—Mayor James Walker of New York City. “Our country’s future depends up- on and is in the keeping of the com- ing generation. Every child sound in body, mind and spirit—surely this is a lofty national goal.”—Arthur M. | Hyde, secretary of agriculture. “Young people are just as capable {of being guided and inspired in their | thought about sex emotion as in their taste and ideals in literature and ethics, and just as they imperatively need to have their general taste and ideals cultivated in preparing .for | mature life, so do they need to have ‘some understanding of the marvelous place which sex emotion has in life.” —Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, author of | “The Sex Side of Life.” “Five years ago such expressions as stock split-ups, rights, convertible issues, odd lots. rediscount rates and brokers’ loans would have been just so much Greek in homes where they are now topics of dinner-table con- versation.”—William O. Scroggs, fi- nancial writer. (Outlook.) —_— "OO | Our Yesterdays | ° > FORTY YEARS AGO Frank Frisby has been re-appointed by Governor Mellette as a member of the board of pharmacy for North Da- ota. Captain F. J. Call, who has been visiting here for several weeks, leaves today for Tacoma, Wash., and other Pacific coast cities. Miss Ruth Dunn left Snndav for Valparaiso, Ind., to spend the summer with friends. Mrs. Asa Fisher of this city, and her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Wheelock, eZ A YoUR SILLINESS oF TRY! to the small towns. For the motor car and the radio and tural mail delivery and the telephone, important factors as they are in the metamorphosis of American life away from the large centers of population, are allies with the movies in a lately evolved scheme of things from which any one of them would be sadly missed—and perhaps none more than the small-town movies. WHERE SISTER GETS AHEAD (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Records coming to light in coeducational colleges again indicate that women do better work than men. The average grade of women tends to be higher and the pro- Portion of women receiving good wages larger. In a class of thirteen Phi Beta Kappa initiates at Ohio university last week were eleven women and two men. The number of men and of women in that institution is approximately the same. For such a discrepancy as this a satisfactory answer is hard to find. Intelligence tests fail to reveal higher native abilities in women. And in most coeducational institutions about the same standards of admission are applied to one sex as to the other. If the facts could be determined they would probably indicate that college women take their responsibilities more seriously; that they work harder on the average and devote less time to outside activity. The fact that more and more women are planning careers and that more and more of them are entering industry and the professions may have a bearing on the academic stand- ards of college women as a iD. This of course does not imply that college men as a whole are shiftless and fail to make good use of their time, But it is a fact nevertheless that achievement among college men is measured on the campus rather by attainment outside than inside the classroom and tory. And even in the outside world the same test appears often to apply. Football stars at our great institutions are eagerly sought out by banking and brokerage institu- SmuPID VENTURE OF to FIND Lost Doss TAUGH ! ~ ENOUGH oF . vo wWrerest ME IN A ORGANIZING A Company ™EGAD,~ Do You FANcY HAT I Took You SERIOUSLY Yor oNE\ MoMENT ? — HmF, —I KNEW WHEN You FiRsT MENTIONED THE SUBJECT THAT IT WAS A coLossAL JosH J. w AND You THOUGHT This OLD FoX HAD “iRWED G Ne FoR w I THK rv Vee Ga ET obT /. You FELL IT LiKE A MonKEY TH A WAX Banana / ~~ SOMEBODY, ~~ AN? BUSTER ,~ GRABBED A LOBE OF YouR THING WAS sus A HEEZAW we WAS PARTY-LINE EAR, AN? / uLoADED PUT A WHISPER IW ON ME (T THAT Th? WHOLE ABouT MAKING EASY CASH FoR th” SUMMER, WitH VACANT Lots, AN” o1 BRoom HANDLES! <a THAT AW'T D Me EXPERIENCE AND EVOLUTION All of the developments of life and civilization have come through ex- perience. Personal experience is & most expensive method of learning, because we must pay so much for our follies and our sorrows. Fortunate, indeed, is the man who can learn from the experiences of others. Only by knowing the lessons of the past can we Set re upon the problems of the future. Millions of people have lived and made mistakes in their living habits and they have developed many dis- eases which you can prevent in your own case if you will only profit by their costly experiences. Many of the rules I am giving you in these lessons have been gathered from the experiences of thousands of patients, the benefit of which you can have without being forced to live through their mistakes or suffer the same bad consequences. How often people will refer to some friend who has just died in the prime of life: “It was so surprising; he has never been sick before, and he seemed such a healthy man.” This brings out an important point. No man can be truly healthy who is daily committing dietetic errors and under- exercising. Disease will develop in the body of such a man whether or not he shows any outward symptoms. It should not be necessary for one to live through life repeating the bad habits over and over again. The time to correct bad habits is when you first discover them. One should not wait until one hears the rustle of death’s wings before reforming. There are many people who are smart enough in business, or who are Philosophers or inventors, who will readily admit that overeating is harmful, yet they may go through their whole lives without once hav- ing tried to curb their appetites or cut down the amount of their food to a sensible quantity. Overeating is just as bad for one Person as for another. The only dif- ference is that some people do not notice the bad effects as quickly as others. Those who are much troubled with digestive disturbances from over- eating during early life will surely reap the harvest of bad health later. Sometimes we are unable to see the insidious hold of a bad habit until it 4s_practically impossible to reform. Why not learn from experience of as and save yourself much mis- ery’ When your doctor tells you that gluttony is the cause of many of your infirmities, he is not only giving you his own private opinion, but the ac- cumulated wisdom of the ages. In these daily articles I am giving you —— | of Mitchell, are visiting in St. Paul and Chicago. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Best have as their guest Miss Karcher of James- town. Rev. Fr. Adolph Dingmann, Glen Ullin, has come to Bismarck to assist Father Clemens and do mission work, W. C. Gilbreath left on the after- noon train for Fargo. Miss Frank Hare, who has been attending a dramatic school in New York, returned last night. TEN YEARS AGO Miss Helen Schwable, Mannhaven, is visiting here as the guest of Miss Metie Goldie. Miss Hilma Anderson, former clerk for the board of control, is visiting Mrs, Thomas Fortune. She is en- gaged in Red Cross work at Fort Sheridan. Miss Tess Henry spent the week visiting at her home in Valley City. The Bank of North Dakota received its first actual deposits yesterday, when two state banks made their re- serve deposits with the institution. if > Federal Farm Facts | -—_—_—_______ODY There is ample reason for worry over the invasion of the Mediterran- ean fruit fly in Florida. Already the U. 8. Department of Agriculture has placed a stringent quarantine against the of certain fruits and vegetables out of the state. The fly attacks more than 70 different types of fruits and vegetables and, having been known to increase 16 genera- tions in a year, it is capable of de- stroying entire crops. The depart- ment has asked congress for $4,250,000 to combat the pest. ee *® Extension service given dairymen in California, according to B. H. Coch- eron, director of cooperative work in that state, enabled them to raise the average butterfat production from 183 Pounds in IRN fo 28 Pounds in 1927. * Branches of agriculture are becom- Pe ing specialized with the result that the growing of some commodities is practically limited to certain sections, with, HEALTHDIET ADVICE S Dr Me Frank iy to Klee” 1N pecan To HEALTH es ocd | cooperation Red Cross, Herp no) $100,000and 15 car- “trom oveg the experience twenty years of active contact with Patients, and countless laboratory ex< Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped envelope for reply. periments, as well as a lifetime of reading and study. These s are given with the hope that they will save you from going througly needless suffering and assist you to< ward living a richer and happigg j life. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Can Adults Grow Question: Mrs. 8. writes: “I rie cently read an article regarding the influence of the pituitary gland upon growth—that there were certain treatments which would influence this gland toward producing growth, ‘Would that mean increased strength as well as physical growth? Chil« dren gain strength as they grow, you know. I am of very small stature and seem to be literally wearing out, and I have so much to live for that Tf would try anything. How can I get in touch with anyone familiar with this method?” Answer: The pituitary gland treat ments are still in an experimentft stage and their value has not been definitely ascertained. It is doubt- ful if they would be of value in in- creasing the growth of one who is mature. You may be able to increase your height slightly by spinal exer- cises and much walking, but withal, you will probably have to console yourself with the fact that @ short stature is not a detriment to a woman, Food Questions Q Questions: Miss C. A. W. writes: “(1) Does not intestinal putrefactive quality of meats render them more objectionable than other forms of protein food? (2) Is it true that as. Paragus is not advisable for persons suffering from diseased or weak kid- neys? (3) Are eggs a good food for such persons? (4) Is it true that two ounces of protein food is suffi cient daily for the average adult?” Answer: (1) No, not when taken with fresh salad vegetables. (2) A moderate use of asparagus is not injurious. (3) You should be able to handle a limited number of eggs, about one @ day, properly prepared by coddling or poaching. (4) More protein food is necessary when no starches are used. (Copyright, 1929, foy the Bell Syndi« cate, Inc.) Talks Tog) dz. Parents A PLACE TO DIG (By Alice Judson Peale) Every small child needs a place in which to dig. The city bred child who never sees the earth save in the iron railed sections of the park suf- fers a real deprivation. Equally un- fortunate is the child who grows wp in a suburb which is so filled with pride in its front lawns and back yards and hedges that it will tolerabe no blemish in its well-groomed midst. I remember last year seeing one Poor little fellow repeatedly switched across the legs for sinfully employing his shovel in the vicinity of the young privet hedge, for trailing his express indry. There literally was no place in which the child could play except the public street, where he was forbidden to go, and the single narrow walls that led up to the front Fine hedges, smooth ing gardens are a part outside the city, but tl right to exist until the has been provided am; which to run and play At the risk of an fl itt a 58 al 5 8 z 4 i egte ifs es ie | i Fi take the dog, the or animals, the cat's tS to glow in the dark. Cont “gel FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: