The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 4

PAGE. FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An tudependent Newspaper THE STAIES OLVES' NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- marck, N. OD. and entered at the pustoffice vt Bismarck as second class mai) matter. George D. Mann “ « Presideat and t.blishet Suvecription Kates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year . $1.20 Datly oy mau. per year, vin 10 Daily by mail. e: year. (ip state, outside Bisinarck) .. 6.00 Daily oy mail. outside ot North Dakota ou 100 Weekiy by mai! in leekiy by m: 250 ‘Weekly by mail in ‘Weekly vy mail outside Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Men.ber ot The Associated Cress The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali news dispatcher credited to it or out otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the loca! news 01 spontaneous origin publ'ste: herein All rights >t republication of al) other maiter herein are also reserved. Forcign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROI1 Tower Bidg. a (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) POOR AND LIFE PENALTY Governor Fred Green of Michigan, vetoing the law that would have restored capital punishment in that state, de- nounced it with striking bitterness as another of the laws which bear down more heavily on the poor than on the rich. In most discussions of capital punishment, this is a point that is overlooked. Opponents of the electric chair call it barbaric, useless, cruel and so on; but Governor Green's suggestion that capital punishment works an in- justice on the poor and the friendless while failing to touch the rich is a new one. Nevertheless, this country being what it is, one can hardly help feeling that Governor Green is right. In spite of our traditional democracy, we still give the Tich man something considerably better than an even break. Our whole social and economic organization is made up in such a way that the man with money—or with “in- fluence,” which sometimes proceeds from money and sometimes does not—can start things moving much more easily than the man without it. Half the battle, in any court action, lies in getting a capable lawyer. But good lawyers are expensive. When a poor man goes to court against a rich man he works under a handi- cap from the very start. Our legal system, with its end- less opportunities for cunning maneuvers and unexpected surprises, often makes the possession of a clever attorney far more important than the possession of a good cause. If it is true in civil court processes, it is doubly true in criminal court and most of all true in a murder trial. ‘The rich man, for instance, can afford the insanity de- fense. He can hire .eminent psychiatrists to testify that he is not accountable for his acts. He can afford the long-drawn legal moves by which delays and obstructions are thrown in the path of the prosecution. Sometimes, even, if he and his counsel are that kind of men, words about cars a block long can be whispered in the ears of susceptible jurors. The poor man can’t do any of these things. He simply is unable to command the machinery that moves to free the rich man. He has to take his chances on the plain merits of his case—and sometimes, if his lawyer is in- efficient, he doesn't even get that much of a break. All of this proves that Governor Green knew exactly what he was talking about. Yet the matter gocs beyond that. If the poor man is at a disadvantage in a murder trial, he is also at a dis- advantage in every other kind of court action, civil or criminal. Some sort of thoroughgoing reform all along the line is what ts needed. Money talks too loudly in our courts. It is time we found some way of putting all contestants into the lezal arena on an even footing. MODESTY In Tahit: clothing may be discarded entirely without giving offense. In Central Asia the exposure of the fin- ger tips is considered the limit of immodesty, and Chinese maidens would blush with shame should. by accident, ‘one of their tiny feet be exposed to public view. Modesty forbids the Mohammedan woman to uncover her face to the gaze of strangers. Cariban women in Brazil feel fully clothed in but a girdle and a generous application cf grease paint. Any part of the feminine body may be exposed in Sumatra and Celebes but the knee, and the women of an Alaskan tribe once paraded their camp streets in nothing but an ornamental plug carried under their lips. Further proof that mcdesty is not innate in man and that clothing is not a measure of modesty is provided by the self-styled civilized peoples of this very age. In the preceding paragraph different races were compared, ‘but the same results may be obtained by comparing two living gencrations of the same civilized country. Members of one generation define modesty in terms of ~ankic-length dresses, sleeves reaching to the wrist. neck- hugging collars, thick stéckings, multiple-ply clothing and long hair. A later generation cuts off its dress at the calf and elbow and exposes a bit of chest. And a third generation raises the skirt to the knees, abolishes the Sleeve entirely, cuts the neck as low as the law allows and adopts a two-ply costume. And yct the generation ‘with the least clothing is the least self-conscious and embarrassed of the thrce when subjected to the gaze of masculine eyes. If modesty is a matter of clothes cach woman must fit j { her clothes to her own standards of modesty. A HEALER AND A KILLER ‘The most tragic thing about the terrible catastrophe ‘at the Cleveland Clinic hospital is that it happened ‘simply because the institution was conducted along the most modern and efficient lines. No hospital in the country made such use of X-ray Photographs in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. ‘Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been saved by the long rows of X-ray films in the basement of the building, | °° 8¢: + Met it was these X-ray films that caused the tragedy. ‘They caught fire from spontaneous combustion when a scazy steampipe overheated the room; and, in burning, they gave off the poisonous gases that brought death to 120 men and women. £ It was an odd, ironistic twist of {ate that turned one of fnedical’ selence’'s greatest allies into a death-dealing authority on modern European “hiétery may not be al- ways right, the odds are in his fever. This esteemed historian sees m: factors peace, gud nothing to warrant a return to the bloody turmeil that began a ceuiury ago and came to a climax V One of the prom g symptoms is arance of war fears cnd hyst ies of Eurepe. The French, German, English i Durepean peoples ave evercoming ths. foclish oe (hat their neighbors ave constanily ting fer an j Opportunity to leap at their throats. Coniribuiing to this elimination of suspicion and fear is the publicity given peace m: end the various treaty and disarmamcnt discufsicns. This is helping the great mass of pecple to banish ell thought of war and cui the rations’ c.pcctation of a prolonged era of i tional amity CAPITALIZING ENEMIES Edward Bok tells of the manner in which he turned , #ntagonism into capital wien he was editor of the Ladies Heme Journal, with the recults which put the stamp of success on his idea. When he first became editcr, the | newspapers and hume: Papers were flooded with jok- ing referci man editing a | woman's oked at Bok. As fa result, aniount of free fully. ng cut the clevcrest “roasting” him, suc- bem to his own staff, thus raising the in his magazine. The public no- at have thought adv Bok turned into sssets for his enterprise. Few cf the most lively disegreements taking place in the bus World would cver come to the head to which they do, if this policy of taming the lion were oitener put into execurion. Ts. is as cdmirable in one cause as in encther, and in most caces it can be brought over from the enemy's camp by the same amount of energy which it would take to fight it. In Bok's case, the oppo- sition was largely of a friendly nature; in other cases !where antagonism is bitter, this method of conquest | seems efficient as weil as strategic. THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD LIGHTS The importance of adequate lighting in industrial establishments is emphasized in a recent address by Miss the Prevention of Blindness. “Improper lighting is one of the most important factors responsible for industrial accidents,” she said. “Not only could the number of such accidents be materially re- duced, but thousands of cases of seriously defective vision among working men and women could be avoided by remedying faulty illumination in industry.” Miss Brown pointed out that approximately 15,000 of the 100,000 blind people in the United States lost their sight because of eye hazards in mines, factories and shops, and asserts that nearly all of these accidents could have been prevented. A SIGN OF THE TIME aviation is found in General Motors’ purchase of 40 per cent of the stock of the Fokker airplane concern. Ford was the first of the b'g automobile manufacturers j to enter the aviation field, and the Stout monoplanes he builds are giving service cll over the countr; Then Fackard fcllowed suit by cx) Diesel engine fcr airplanes. This engi: now ready for the market. Now Gencral Movers steps in. Obvicusly, mocile menufeceiurers see a tremendous fu ia that field. They ere providing for their participation in it by ‘ting in now, whilo the growth is only becinning. Editorial Comment CHINA’S HANDY AX (Los Angeles Times) Automobiles are still strange creatures in some sec- } tions of China and the rules governing their movement | are rather strict. Right in the shadow of Peking there | is a street where a specd of fifteen miles an hour is the limit. | According to the story of an observer those who exceed this rate are likely to have their heads cut off and ex- hibited on posts along the road. It must have a depress- ing effect upon a motorist to suddenly come upon the blood-dripping bean of some guy who had but recently | ; Passed him on the highway. The idea is that a man who drives fast loses his head and they are making the pun- | ishment fit the crime. ee | THE DEATH TOLL OF SMOKE | «Duluth Herald) | In a hearing the other day Arnold H. Kegel, health commissioner of the city of Chicago, told a committee of the Illinois legislature that a sixth of Chicago's deaths can be traced directly to the smoke nuisance, and that a conquest of the smoke pest would reduce Chicago's death rate by that proportion. ; The bill on which the hearing was held was a bill to jcompel all railroads to electrify their operations within j the city limits of Chicago. i One point brought out by the was that smoke is the arch-cause slays many in Chicago every year. 1 So, according to this authority, smoke is not only a | costly nuisance, but it 1s a menace to the public health. | And certainly it is not hard to believe that it is not good for human systems that need clean, fresh air to in- hale air that is heavily charged with the irritants that thicken the air wheh smoke is permitted to pour forth unchecked. The obvious fact that smoke is bad for the health of its people ought to be the reason that will turn the scale | from the present state of inertia to an active campaign to rid the community of all its unnecessary smoke—and Bie -alne per cent of it is unnecessary and prevent- able. health commissioner of pneumonia, which i MAKING GOOD CUSTOMERS (St, Poul Disp2ten) President Hoover put isto words as which have oficn been ve: which have come into general ac: an business men cince the wor. a a large sense we hove learned t toiler decreases rather t: ‘ceperity. because it reduces tt co" many thit to besis everything station that took rines wes in ferm pri nas remained ca a high level. It wa: consuming P: rashes mass prod. sch in turn is the seerct of pzo: ity. The farmer elcne does not profit in the came way as the manufeeturer from the existence of high przchasing in ethers. Exceps when wages cre ca the starv- ation level, which has never been the caze in A:ncrica, inerzasing them has small eiicct on the quantity of food censumed.. Th? resuli of aff": if anything, is to ce- crease the consumption of the er's staple produ: Eleanor P. Brown, secretary of the National Society for | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | | | The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse! ALLENE~SUMNER, fine distinction made by the National M. C. A. Commission on Relations and “heavy” petting is ai denies her, just missing it in all her relationships. A strangely appealing story. x oe OK FOR HER SON The ex-Empress Zita of Austria was recently found in hiding with her son, Prince Otto, and her seven chil- dren, by a young Hungarian peasant igirl. The former empress lived in a :16-room villa perched on a rock a {mile above the town, with but one { Path leading to it, so that any visitor Between College Men and Women. ! could be seen ascending, and doors After a year of arduous research the ment upon the pamphiet. xO OK OPEN TO ARGUMENT and gone, too, is the ‘ion that the whole duty ists in obedience to ar- ‘The Laws of God,’ uished Episcopalian ‘are to be obeyed, not de- at least as sex is e ¥. M. C. A. no him. Its attitude one the less fund- tal. It becins by man . according to some nunciations tacit assum of mits that rbitrarily r of hu- profitable manners the Sabbath, was made for * * % A HARD ROW Which seems sane enot is us that some ge profs who attempted to find out, not what human beings ought to be doing and thinking, but what they really were doing and thinking, were ousted from their university. Little by little enough drops of wa- ter in the way of the Mary Ware Den- nett case, the raiding of the birth control clinic, the ousting of a few more profs, and we'll get at some sort of rock bottom of common sense in our civilization. * * “THIS STRANGE ADVENTURE” By the way, those of you who want a porch book, try Mary Roberts Rine- hart's “This Strange Adventure.” The adventure is life, of course, and what it does to two sisters, Ellen, later to become Eileen, who gets by rather nicely on the fleshpots, and Missie, who aches and anguishes in loneli- ness for the emotional food which life But it A ~ Sa, mister, Y'aunl Got No RIGHT BUILD! ~ MR. HENDERSON, SAID US KIDS CAN PLAY SCRUB ON IT ALL SUMMER IF WE DON'T HOLLER AN? As become wealthy they may eat e greater riety of foods, but the quantity is likely to become less rather than mere and the grower of the great major crops benefits only stightly if at ell. x ~The nurater of eutomentics, suits of clotiics and, redo men may buy 4s limited only by his parse, tut he same number of pounds of beef end loaves bread when he has five & year as he did at Indecd he eats less. The per ee con> per consuming the of the national population feces ue jon 5, customers, 5 vy OUGHT! SUMPIN? ON “THIS Lor, AN’ Go SPOILIN? ouR BASEBALL DIAMOND J. WHAT OWNS “THIS LoT, BuST_ANY wiNpows / aw my : barred to him. The empress addressed | commission issued its pamphlet “The | he; “Your y” | | Sex Life of Youth,” with chapters| “there ic. ee ; touching on “light” and “heavy” pet-j press could continue the strange way Another sign of the times in regard to the fuiure of | ting. The “Nation” makes this com- jof living for herself, even when she There is little doubt that the em- j could not lose the gleam of seeing ; her son on the throne. ; Funny how parents will learn for | What is not, but never, or rarely, pass that discovery on to their children, ‘but continue yearning for them to be | {cumbered with the traditional labels | of fortune and fame. * * % | MARRIAGE AGE | Boys and girls of England may | Now be married at 14 and 12. -But a y | Hew bill introduced in the house of | beings do; commons would raise the marriage | ing copy which does not inspire the ; age to 16 for both boys and girls. But some opponents pointed out i that, law or no law, more than a j million English marriages showed but ; four boys and 119 girls under 16 in- Sex, as; Volved. Sometimes Mother Nature is as smart, or smarter, than all our laws. 1 ra a ‘ CAPTAIN KIDD’S DEATH On May 2, 1701, Captain Kidd, his- tory’s most famed outlaw, was exe- jcuted in London. ‘Tradition has woven so many fanci- ful stories about the activities of Captain Kidd that he has become al- most a mythical figure. Enough of his life is known, however, to prove false most of the stories told about him. In fact, there is some doubt that he was a pirate at all. He in- sisted to the end that his activities on the high seas were in the name of the English crown. He turned over valuable treasures to the government, and claimed that they constituted all the spoils he had taken, but the AW-w- You'Re HAMMERIN” “THAT BROOM HANDLE RIGHT WHERE oR PITCHER'’s Box 1s [une OUR TEAM WILL BUY THis Lor AN” THEN we'LL HAVE TH’ RIGHTS .To PULL THEM sticks up / ha IN” D M rumor began that he had buried vast stores on the southern coast of the United States. His trial was marked by grave injustices. At one time early in his career the council of New York awarded him 150 pounds sterling for services rendered the colony. In 1695 he was appointed by the governor of New York province to assist in suppressing piracy off the coast. “The United States spoken of as the richest country in “Gone are the thundering de-| themselves what is happiness and! the world, due to the immense prog- is sometimes ress of both agriculture and industry jim that country. The fact is, how- ever, that Canada is a country of larger area, and of far greater wealth in natural resources per capita.”— James E. Boyle, professor of agri- j cultural economics, Cornell Univers- ity. * * * “Industry in these days of intens- ive sales rivalry demands advertis- {reader to exclaim, ‘How clever the ad writers are these days!’, but rather to observe, ‘What a valuable device this {new noiseless alarm clock seems to {be!’; and then to resolve to go out {and buy one.”—Dr. Julius Klein, as- [serene secretary of * * commerce. * “The most critical period in any great emergency involving armed | conflict is that immediately following a declaration of war... The enact- ment of the proposed legislation (se- | lective service bill) would enable the war department and navy depart- iment to proceed with their prepara- | tions and plans for national defense with the assurance that the most es- j sential item in mobilization—man- power—would be certainly and quick- ty available.”"—James W. Good, secre- tary of war. * * x “There are few Voltaires who can say, ‘I hate what you say, but I will defend with my very life your right to say it.’”—Edmund B. Chaffee, direc- |tor of Labor Temple. (Outlook.) * ek Ok “The aphorism that disrespect for one law leads to contempt for all is equally useful to the drys, who argue that unrepealable laws should be en- forced, and to the wets, who argue that unenforceable laws should be w SAY, ~ CONFOUND DRAT IT fe THAT'S “TWICE You) LADS HAVE MADE ME HiT MY THUMB With YouR | ISCONCERTING PRATTLE: wae NOW LISTEN, mee YM A SECRET SERVICE ° AN,~AND I WANT You GoSsooNs To SCAMPER ALONG, BECAUSE Yo ARE INTERFERING witH VeRY IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT, w ARMY; i AND NAVY BusWess /) a YouLL BE SoRRY IF I HAVE HYSTERICAL ATTACKS AND PA- RALYSIS (Continued) After reading yesterday's article you may have come to the conclusion that hysterical patients, in seeking sympathy, really try to fool their friends and the doctor, but this is not strictly true. The patient is us- ually honest. It is true that an hys- terical attack is often brought on by a morbid craving for sympathy, but the fact of the matter is that the pa- tients usually fool themselves even more than they do others. That a pelvic congestion is re- sponsible for these cases has been recognized from the earliest times. Even the word “hysteria” comes from the Greek root meaning womb. It is apparent that some congestion always exists in this organ or in the ovaries before the symptoms of hysteria pre- sent themselves. In men, the con- gestion may be in the prostate. ‘This disorder is found most fre- quently in young women, but may also occur in older women who are car unmarried or unhappily mar- ried. gans may be caused by the pressure of prolapsus upon the uterus or by a faulty position of the womb itself. Constipation may assist, with @ con- stant pressure of packed feces against these delicate organs. ‘The one fact that stands out above all others is that women who are af- fected by hysteria are those who have not developed normal function- ing of the reproductive organs. This may be due to either physiological or, more often, psychological inhibitions and re 5 The cure of Lees kndigact its at- tendant symptoms depends upon cre- ating a normal circulation of blood and nervous impulses throughout the entire pelvis. Such organs must function properly in the manner in- tended by nature. Any interference with the natural functioning of the intestines, rectum, bladder, ovaries or womb may lay the foundation for hy ysteria. The principal physiotherapy treat- ments that are serviceable in over- coming this disorder are: Hot sitz baths for fifteen to twenty minutes, rectal dilation, large enemas to re- move colonic pressure, the correction of prolapsus, and positive, or instructions to the patient which will result in a more normal emo- tional viewpoint. Sometimes a short fruit fast fol- lowed by a well balanced diet in which sufficient proteins and the al- kaline-forming vegetables are used, is helpful. This should he followed by @ general health regime. The patient unrepealed.”—Robert C. Binkley. (The New Republic.) x * * “France is the most alcoholized na- tion in the world, and what we call public morals is what they have not in France.”—Bishop James Cannon, Jr. —_— Episcopal Church, South. MAKING THINGS (By Alice Judson Peale) We live in an age in which the pro- cesses on which we depend for our way of life are obscured by the ever increasing complexity of our social organization. The city child, especially, sees only the finished product. Possible for him to grow up with no experience whatever of work with materials. In so doing he misses one of the authentic delights of human existence, it FL lk 208 J g i 5 $ E i i & BU ih al bali 3 i The congestion of these or-| of must be taught to live correctly, use sufficient daily exercise, ing, sleep, and correct bathing. The; patient should also endeavor to culti« | mind—calme vate a better state of the is feel that every case of hysteria can bé cured. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ringworm Question: A. V. asks: “Will you kindly tell me through your columa the cause for and the cure of ring« worm? Will an ointment of ammo. niated mercury applied twice daily be effective?” those who are the most subject to such infections as ringworm usually have a makes them uw: le, H si inusually susceptib! using well balanced meals, My. éemonthe-old ‘baty ‘object ts “My 6-mont to . Is oF bony ie absolutely necessary for @ aby?” see whether or not you have @ faulty po- sition of the vertebrae. path or fied, by his training, examination and give you his opinion. (Copyright, 1929, by the cate, Inc.) b : got (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service Inc.) T Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO A. Breckenridge, well known stopping in the city several days, Dr. W. A. Bentley is te to the annual meeting of odd Felons in Jamestown. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Indian Inspector James he lin is in the city today en route to Be« attle on departmental business.