The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 4

PAGE FOUR i The Bismarck Tribune Ap Independent Newsprper THE STAVE'S OLVES' NEWSPAPER (Established '873) Ena Publishea by the Bismarck Tribune Company is- Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice wt Bismarck QB second class mail matter. George D. Mann . Suoscription Kates Payable in Advance Datly by carrier per year Daily by mati per year, (in Bismarck) Daily by mail. pe: year. in state, outside Bisinarck) Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota . » Presidest and ev.tisher é 3 t i t ‘ ‘ i ; Weekly by mail in state. per year ‘ ‘Weekly bv mail in state three years for Weekly vy mail outside of North Dakota. per year Member Aadit Bureau of Circulation ——— Men.ber of The Associated ress The Associated Press ts exclusively entilied tc the use for republication of al) news dispatches creditea to i Of not otherwise credited in this newspaper ana aisc the loca) news 01 spontaneous origin publ'sLe+ herein All rights >f republication of all other maiter herein are also reserved Forcign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMFANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg CHICAGO Tower Bldg. DETROI1 Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) AND HEROISM. INSEP: oe ABL E “a AGEDY great ering as that of Line: deathless lines Brigade. Hu sacrifice in t trophes are a bic: victim is offset by ity flashes out of The Cleveland di: was Gettys Play of this reaction their lives in the disa: them w ct Vv braves de: © anot see from pain or ‘ing or death. These laid down their lives to those t type of heroism that has become d of all great ci ophies. hown in the Cleveland disaster by the men nen who did what they could to res- cue the helples f the clinic from a pitiful fate shines like a beacon out of the darkness of the tragedy. . Firemen dashed into the building to get those who were trapped in it to safety. It wasn’t a nice assignment. Flames were fighting for Possession of the walls. Down in the basement, where huge quantities of chemicals were stored, it was suspected that another explosion was being generated. Halls and rooms were filled with a hazy yellow gas—impalpable, al- most invisible, but very deadly. Those who breathed it either collapsed where they stood, or lived for a brief while and then, without waraing, turned a horrible green color and died. Into this sort of thing went the firemen and the po- lice. One policeman carried out 20 people before the gas he had inhaled made him drop unconscigus. They took him to a hospital where he died. A dozen firemen followed him to the hospital shortly after. Some of them lived and some of them died. Girlish nurses, incongruously dainty in their white uni- forms, were caught in the building when fire and gas clogged ths stairways. They calmly went to work helping drag the victims to the roof, where they practiced first aid methods and saved many lives. A taxi-driver left his cab and struggled into the build- ing, working beside the firemen until overcome by the gas. A world famous physician persisted in going into the building to minister to the sufferers until he, too, col- lapsed. He died a fe-v hours later, victim of his own un- selfish bravery. One of the nurses of the institution, off duty, was downtown. She heard of the tragedy, taxied to the scene and went into the building to help revive those who were lying unconscious in the ga: led chambers and cor- tidors. An incredibly long list of cases like that could ‘be made out. Yet this story of the disaster at Cleveland is not, in that respect, in any way unusual. Every great catas- trophe, as said, brings with it its stories of bright heroism and gallant self-sacrifice. ‘The plain fact is that the human race is pretty admi- rable. No matter what the emergency, there will always be some to respond nobly. Sometimes it is a fireman or @ policeman, paid for risking his life; sometimes it is a cab driver, a nurse, a doctor, a street cleaner, a mechanic, @ housewife. Heroism can be found everywhere. It never : fails. ADVERTISING AND PROGRESS Advertising has proved itself to be the barometer of ‘progress. It has not been long since business advertising was as severely criticised and ridiculed as boasting of personal qualifications. At the same time there was as little faith in the claims of advertisements as in the claims of the braggart. Only the quack and the imposter, who had everything to gain and nothing to lose, then resorted to advertising. Business is ever the standard bearer and apostle of Progvess, and so it was business which discovered that advertising was a vital factor in all growth. When ad- yertising was admitted to the fireside of business it was not the big business of today. Big business traces its beginnin:; with its employment of advertising. In its conversion to advertising business was soon fol- Jowed by industry, commerce and the professions. benefits of advertising had made themselves manifest in each step forward. ‘That was the evolution of advertising, until today ad- vertising plays 4 part in every phase of life and is the working instrument of all except the doctor and the law- yer, who still consider it “unethical” to advertise for business. He may place his “card” in the weekly news- paper, but it is professionally forbidden for the doctor or th * wyer to inform the public of his capabilities. Nothing in life has attained perfection and evolution ar eternal, ever-continuing advancement. The evolu- 5 of advertising will not stop with its adoption by nied- __ Seine and jurisprudence, but that adoption will establish SEEKING KNOWLEDGE chautauqua speaker gets his audience into a re- Mood with assurance (given in all seriousness) | be bas never looked down into so many intelligent #, whereupon everybody calls him a jollier and all @ lecture platform 1s told graph- large lecture bureau. He an- Bee ee ee ceived only one request for a humorist and t turers who bring with them the most the ost in demand. The American people today will not listen to talkers whe ‘vers, but they will go miles to hear a man The small town also patrot i peace and ical questions of the nation and the advancement of edu- awakened in the public mind a desire for opinion and deep, serious thought. The to the lecture hall for mental improve- with st facts, public now goes ment. DOING QUITE WELL The j j duc he hearing on the Couzens bill for a federal ‘ol radio, telephones, telegraph and mittee on interstate commerce was Caldwell, former chief counsel of the that monopoly exists in radio on. no present te of ni io public secs no ich a monopoly. ose listening in pay or what they hear and rather believe that a monopoly might tend to improve the pro= : would it be likely to result in more propa- end privately-imposed censorship than now ens have come to fear private monopolies far n public monopolies such as the general com- commission would prove to be. All com- ems are now under government control, could not be expected from the creation sion 9 lower rates of a new col i Senator Couzens has foreseen future devclop- 1 complications which the man on the street creation of another federal commission ess waste of public money and more with private enterprise, to Mr. Caldwell, who is convinced it is too early for the establishment of such bunal THE WORKER PRODUCES MORE One of the chief reasons for this country’s present high state of prosperity is given in the May issue of the Out- line of Business, a publication issued by the Central Na- | tional Bank of Cleveland. This shows the average American worker, in 1928, pro- ed goods worth $7508. In 1914 the average stood at $3445 per worker. During the years since then it has risen steadily, due partly to the introduction of labor-saving machinery and the de- velopment of improved production methods and partly to greater efficiency on the part of the workers them- selves. This great increase in productivity per worker speaks volumes about the health of American industry. Editorial Comment LUXURY AND LOVE (Chicago Tribune) Diamonds in this land of stern and rockbound Pilgrim fathers are valued at $4,000,000,000, says an insurance company, and the number of diamonds, if not of Pil- grim fathers, increases every year. With some $40 worth of the bright crockery that women love for each average \ citizen, this plain and muscular nation of the west glis- tens fairly well in comparison with the decorative peoples of Europe and the cast. We are a plain people, no doubt, with tall thoughts and great actions, but no other nation has so much diamond per capita. In en cra of women, as seers and prophets say, the t diamond consumption in America would seem to be appropriate, and with girls now enjoying the luxury of successive and concurrent engagements, where once they were content with one, the market for engagement rings booms and bulls to high! levels. In her trophy room the American girl can show glittering assemblages of rings, pins, and other emblems still to be returned, and the health and prosperity of the diamond merchants do not suffer trom her negligence. Love has a higher turn- over than it once had. It is more expensive, Though much of it, no doubt, is expressed eventually in a few million dollars’ worth of rocks, there are margins over. Luxury and love are booming in America. Bagdad could do no better. AIRPORTS SERVE PUBLIC PURPOSE (Minneapolis Journal) blishment of municipal airports as a “public pur- pos has reached fairly common recognition in the couris. It is a new question, but a number of test cases have been passed upon, in several states, and the public | interest has been found to be served in these cases. Statutes.had to come before decisions, and legislative bodies have commonly furthered such establishment, ex- pressly authorizing expenditure of public funds for con- struction and maintenance of airports. Thus the question has been carried before the high courts of Ohio, Mary- land, Missouri, Kansas, and New York, among others. All have found in favor of the new facility of transporta- tion as it relates to the airport. The New York court of appcals handed down the fol- lowing opinion: Aviation is today an established method of trans- portation. The future, even the near future, will make it still more general. The city that is without the foresight to build the ports for the new traffic may soon be left behind in the race of competition. Chalcedon was called the city of the blind, because its founders rejecied the nobler site of Byzantium lying at their feet. The need for vision of the future in the governance of cities has not lessened with the years. The dweller within the gates, even more than the stranger from afar, will pay the price of blind- ness. As the courts say, the airplanes travel the trackless air, and the only way to monopoly is through possession of the airport. Its public utility, available to all, is there- fore obvious. CONGRESS AND CABINET (New York Times) Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania will reintroduce in the next congress his bill providing for attendance of cabinet officers at sessions of the senate and house. This may lead to a revival of interest in the measure, partic- ularly since it once received President Hoover's endorse- ment. Ata luncheon at the white house during President Wilson's administration, attended by Mr. Root and Mr. Taft. both are said to have agreed that the reform would be advantageous. Secretary Hughes publicly advocated it during the days when he was serving as secretary of state. Mr. Stimson, long a champion of representative government once went so far as to urge that general legislation. prepared by the executive branch, should be submittec directly to congress and have a privileged po- sition there. When he was secretary of commerce. Mr. Heover wrote a letter to Representative Kelly enthu- astically supporting his proposal, which he regarded as e of the most constructive steps that can be taken in furthering the development of our governmental ma- chinery. It is, of course, no-new idea. The act establishing the treacury departinent directed the secretary to make his reports to concress “either in person or in writing. as he may be required.” But the legislators of that day were in no burry to exali Alexander Hamilton, and it may be that some of their successors will fee: the same way about Mr. Mellon. In 1854 Representative Pendleton of Ohio the father of civil service reform. reported a committee bill offering the heads of the executive departments seats on the floor of the house; some vears later he in- troduced a similar bill in the senate. Convress war cole to both measures. Various bridges have since been built between the white house and the canital. untebly the executive budget system, which nas met with general ap- proval. Department heads frequently aonear befoie congressional committees. and the press affords a me- " | dium for the exchance of views which President Hoover has already seized noon. The declaration made on his ‘The manner in which the | behalf only last week, apropos of his disinclination te frame farm relief legislation that “the president must maintain the constitutional relationshin between the ex- secutive end the eon-ress,’ is notice that he bas no inten- tion of unduly ruffling congressional sensibilities. the United States but that there is a information are | je AES ou Hear the pathetic tale of Madame Berthelet Jaubert and her poor! daughter Marie who, left a fortune of some twelve million dollars a few: days ago, broke into loud wailing and | moaning and a prayer that life might | be as it was before they were rich. This legacy was the very last straw, for it seems that their woes began about a year ago when another trag- ically rich relative left them a for-! tune of some $10,000,000. Maybe it was frances, but anyway the sum total is a right smart sum. So here they are, two harmless sim- | ple women, burdened with a fortune | Of $22,000,000, and complaining that , life can never again be the same. | They tell of the thousands of beg- i ging letters they receive, of the de- mands made upon their time by real estate men wanting to sell them win- ter and summer homes, by people} wanting to sell them. yachts and champagne and jewels and automo- biles. Life has become an intolerable burden, they complain, almost curs- | ing the relatives who left them the white elepiants of the two fortunes. * * IT ISN'T UNUSUAL Now this reaction is quite in ac- cordance with tradition. We have a) Popular belief that wealth means un- happiness. We love our platitudes to the effect that the rich man is the man of many troubles, and that the simple cottager who goes to his hum- ble cot at night, to his brown loaf and drink of cold water from the old oaken bucket, is the man to be envied of all others. We say that the man who must work for his daily bread does not know how fortunate he is till that necessity is snatched from him. Now there is no little truth in all these bromides. But the real truth is that we have formulated these phrases largely as “booby prizes”; to console us for our own humble estates. For that many a rich man is as happy as a poor man is as true as our 1ormula that poverty, or at least comparative poverty, means peace and happiness. There is no denial, either, that to be happy with wealth calls for as much manhood or womanhood as to be happy ir in Poverty. ~~ BUT LEESON, I'm TELLING You,~ DER man DoN'y VANT To BUY OUR Lot / ALL HE VANTS 15 MONTHS To MAKE A BUSINESS OF BLAYING HORSE SHOE Games /~ ~ You KNow VoT is 17 WORSE SHOES ? UL IRON FEET, ~~~ VELL ~~ You GAME, ~ You KNowW Ag SHoES / iter of acceptance, A HoPTIoN oW I(T FoR DREE CURVES VOT GO oN Horse TAKE DEM OFF DER HoRSE UND BLAY A Game, ~~ A ~ LIKE HIDE-UND-Go-Sick ONW. DIS JS MIT Horse Pum LEESON / Therefore, my own reaction to the bleat and wails of Madame Berthelot Jaubert and her daughter Marie is | not one of pity and respect for their Philosophical choice of poverty rather than wealth, but a bit of disdain that they were not ready for their wealth, and have no resources within them which will enable them to use it wisely and happily. * * * IT’S A WEA ESS: After all, the inability to stand money symbolizes constitutional fault as much as the physical inability to endure food or sunlight or air. Our civilization has been advanced as much by men and women of wealth who made that wealth their job as by scientists consecrating their lives to laboratory test tubes in order that other human beings might live longer and more happily. Complaint at wealth is an admis- sion of personal inadequacy and wasted use of previous years. To be sure, we must grant that poverty sometimes so lashes us to her helm that we have no time to build up a Personality ready for bigger things. But if these two women have aver- age health and intelligence they might bettcr devote their energies to using their wealth wisely and use- fully and happily than in complain- ing that things can’t go on as they | always have. At present they are more deserv- ing of scorn than praise, even though we do like clinging to our tradition that we are happiest in poverty, just because we know our chances of hav- ing any other state are not very fat and juicy. ll MEM SSS 25 GRANT'S NOMINATION Few presidential candidates in the history of any political party have been more certain of election ‘than the man nominated for his first term by the Republicans 61 years ago to- day—General U. S. Grant. The country was in the mood to elect a military hero and in addi- tion to this, Grant was helped by the fact that he had been a Democrat until a short time before the nomi- nating convention, when he quarreled over a minor matter with Democratic President Johnson. The closing sentence in Grant's lete “Let us nay. Wenens Nol. I owN HALF Lot ‘mrr You, UND T VANT HORSES SUMP! CoRNER Games fi Lor To PUT UP A Bi TEEAYTER ON IT, ~ MIGHT KicK A Bu No,~ Nerrer fu ~I VoNT THK OH, FIDDLESticKs / AME 2 oF ir IL ~ Tu Tew THEM Rien NACA oN DER Lor IW ay Puss-IN-DER- Foo.isH /u~ VE Vil SELL DER oF HAY, — UND HoRSES VoT MY HALF OF DER Lor fur A 1928, BY MEA SERVICE, HC. was a powerful vote-getter during his campaign. The country believed that he could bring harmony between the north and south. Grant carried 24 states, six of them in the south, Seymour, his Democratic opponent, carried eight states, two of them in the south. Three southern states did not vote because they had not been readmitted to the union with full rights. General Lee, Grant's chief military foe, was president of Washington [college in Virginia (Washington and Lee university) when Grant was: nominated. “It cannot be stressed too strongly that the future of aviation rests on the ground, as it is there that planes must take off and land. Foresight in construction will save millions of ieee lars in the near future.”—F. Frankland, American Institute of Steel Construction. x * “Even human sympathy for the af- flicted and suffering has been for- gotten (in the house tariff bill), for surgical instruments have been given a substantial boost.”—Senator David I, Walsh of Massachusetts. { * * * | “Today practically 50 per cent of all | the wheat growers in western Can- jada have joined the pool, and the farmers of Canada are discussing their agricultural problems with hope and satisfaction. They have proven ; gain the truism that no commodity in the world is so well off when it is dumped as when it is merchandised.” —Senator Allen, Kansas. * * * “One of the most important les- sons of life is that success muct ean tinually be won and is never finally achieved.”—Charles Evans s-dj.... xe * “There is only one thing in busi- ness that is certain and that's change.”"—Henry Ford. * *** “I believe in cleanliness, of course, {but really, there is nothing I enjoy more than the signs of recent work on the hands of a man or boy.”— Thomas Edison. The Chicago diocese of the Greek Orthodox church will develop a re- ligious community near Elmhurst, a Chicago suburb. - OF DIS Don'y No ARouND No,~ Dors ENK OR A Not BALES YER OFF “We DEAL 1S OFF/~ ~SooN EVERYBODY Witt KNow MY ose —& ARE LOTS OF NY Lors, MAJoR TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929 A STITCH IN TIME ‘What would you think of a busi- ness man who refused to have his business checked over occasionally, or the automobile owner who refused to have his automobile checked over, or oiled, until it developed a pronounced creaking or knocking? You would undoubtedly regard relther of these in- dividuals as being extremely care- Tess. T have had thousands of individuals inquire of me, either in my practice or by mail, as to some method they can employ for curing themselves, or be cured, of the diseases from which they are suffering. But it is a most unusual thing for any person to ever inquire as to the best means of main- taining health and preventing dis- ease. Human beings are so careful with most of their possessions, but are apt to be very careless when it comes to their own health, the most precious possession of all. It is undoubtedly true that many of the most serious diseases may de- velop to an incurable degree without great pain or suffering. The dentist, by filling a small cavity, may pre- vent the decay of the entire tooth. May not the same rule hold good with the rest of the body? If a particular organ shows indication of overwork, why wait until it has been partly de- stroyed before reforming your habits? If you knew that your liver, kidneys, or lungs showed indications of weak- ness or of congestion, you could then take the necessary means of restoring them to their normal functions. But if you are unaware that anything is wrong with them, you are apt to con- tinue with the same destructive habits which were responsible for their deterioration. ‘Would it not be a good plan for us to occasionally have our body mech- anism checked over to determine de- ficiencies? There will undoubtedly come a ‘time when every. human be- ing will have himself examined once or twice yearly, not only as a check- up on his health, but as a stimulation toward better health. I know that many people are afraid to consult doctors for fear they will advise operation, but this attitude of mind is certainly foolish. Ignorance is not a safeguard. I cannot give ac- curate advice to those writing in about symptoms alone, but if a doc- tor's report is included with the name of the disease or diseases from which the patient is suffering, it is then easy for me to send articles or advice based upon the inquirer’s needs. It is not unusual for invalids to live to a much riper age than a healthy individual. This is because they realize their own limitations and take the best of care of themselves. Deaths from heart disease are not nearly as frequent as they were at one time, simply because doctors can recognize heart disease in its early stages and warn the patient against actually decreasing in severity cause a tubercular tendency can be recognizéd in patients before the dis- ease has actually- obtained its foot- ee Ins on heaic:: e* eee ‘Tries a stamped eddressed envelope for reply. hold, and the patient can be warned against becoming overtired. ‘The man who thinks he is too busy to have a health examination is the man who will probably die at an early age from some entirely preventable disease. A few hours now spent in learning the condition of your health and the right methods of living may result in adding many years of hap- piness to your life. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Electricity in Body Question: 8. S. asks: “Could you tell me the cause of excess electricity in a person? Almost everything they touch, especially the hot water tap and electric light, keeps them on the hop.’ Answer: What you have felt is probably static electricity which i often generated by your shoes as you walk across the carpet. Just try uss experiment: shuffle across the room without your feet leaving the carpet, then touch the door knob and you will find you will be able to get a spark from your fingertips. This is also true if you touch a water faucet or any other metal. It may be possible that your electric light socket is de- fective, and you may be getting a spark of real 110 volt alternating cur- rent. Better have an electrician ex- amine the wire. If there is a “short” in the light socket, you may get a severe shock if you touch the metal of the socket and the water faucet at the same time. Many people have been killed from turning on a light while standing in the bathtub. Mixing Vegetables Question: W. G. S. asks: “What vegetables may be eaten at the same meal, and what does the word ‘pro- tein’ mean?” Answer: All vegetables may be mixed together at the same meal with the exception of potatoes and hub- bard squard. A protein is a certain complex combination of carbon, hy- drogen, oxygen and nitrogen, with a larger amount of nitrogen than found in most other foods. Most of the proteins are meat, fish, eggs, nuts and cheese. Thumb Sucking Question: Mrs. J. B. asks: “How can I break the thumb sucking habits in my small son?” Answer: I would suggest that you purchase aluminum mittens for your little boy. You will be able to get these mittens at a surgical supply house. H./ extreme exertion; and tuberculosis is| (Copyright, 1929, by the Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) ITTLE MOTHER” (By Alice Judson Peale) “I never worry about Stevie when he’s with his sister. Lucy just adores him. She's a perfect little mother. He's miserable when he is away from her; he simply doesn’t know what to do with himself. They play together all the time. Even when Stevie gets irritable and throws things around, Lucy seems to know .just how to handle him.” Stevie's mother spoke with com- placency. The relationship between the children seemed to her an en- tirely satisfactory one. What could be better than a brother and sister so completely devoted to one another? To which we answer: “Why, nothing in the world could be better, except @ brother and sister, who, though on friendly terms, are quite independent of each other.” The “mothering” older child is learning a dictatorial attitude which she must unlearn if she is to make a pleasant adjustment to her equals. She is deriving her chief satisfaction through managing another human being instead of through wholesome, hiram play. child is being ex- younger ploited, The “little mother” makes Rim fit into her play schemes, She blocks his efforts at indenendent Play, she explains, and corrects. Being herself a child, sne cannot help misusing her advantage. In ways both obvious and subtle, she uses his weakness to feed her sense of power. When two children be- come thus dependent on each other it is well to separate them during at least several hours of the day. Little children should not be little mothers, nor should they respond to “mothering” from any child. They should have a free, fair chance to establish themselves independently. While it is necessary for them to sub- mit to a certain amount of adult domination, domination of one child by another is without value and with- out excuse. ~~ BARBS) ‘ worth and all the other fact! to a nice buffet lunch. ; she ‘The Mayflower, former presidential yee, be sold. It's rather r bad selling pleasure yachts, Our Yesterdays > FORTY YEARS AGO Dennis Hannafin left for Illinois to look after pension matters, and in- cidentally to visit old friends. A. W. Skinner, Sterling, paid sev- eral of the state officers at the cap- itol a visit yesterday. Sufficient money has been collected for making a new baseball grounds and work will commence at once. James Kerwin, Jim Hurley and Scott McLean, left last night for Sioux City, Iowa, to look after rail- road contracts. They were accom- panied as far as St. Paul by Hugh McGarvey. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Pearl Braithwaite, who has been visiting in Mandan, has gone to Denver and from there will go to her home in Maryland, H. V. Quick of the Bismarck land- office has been named chief clerk of the new office at Dickinson. H. B. Hersey, Louisville, inspector of weather ae. ale on Di- rector Bronson toda: City Engineer Crabb of Fargo is in the city today to look over the frome for the proposed sewer sys- TEN YEARS AGO Mrs. R. M. Bergeson had as her i guest yesterday her mother, Mrs. William Simpson, Mandan. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hunt, Fargo. well known to Bismarck people, have received word that their daughter Miss Harriet Hunt, who sailed for Eu- rope with the Smith college tourists, has arrived in Europe. The twenty-fifth annual session of the N. D. chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will meet June 10 in Grand Forks, with Mrs. Effie Lahr, grand matron, presiding. Mrs. Flor- ence M. Hoskins, grand secretary, will also attend. "FLAPPER. FANNY SAYS: oo