The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune, Ap lnéependent Newspuper THE STAIES OLVESI NEWSPAPER | (Establishea 1673) | Puplishea by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- | and entered at the postoffice 3t Bismarcs mall matter. sesccereeseceee Presigest ang rubiisner | Daily by mail, re: year. outside Bisinarck) per year .. Member Avdit Bares Stem.ber of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press 1s exciusively entitied to the use | for republication of ali news dispatches creditea to it Or not otherwise credited in this newspaper enc also the loca! news 01 spontaneous origin qubi'shec herein All rights °f republication of all other matter herein fare also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMFANY NEW YORE .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) ——— SAVAGERY IN THE COURT Tt is a bit hard to realize that a six-year-old Kentucky jt ‘boy was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for man- slaughter. | We are not used to long this country. | ‘They are, most decided! h and not the rule in our criminal court procedure. | A Sinclair steals a naval oil reserve and gets three | months in the workhouse. A Capo: after thumbing | his nose at law and order for half a decade, is finally | jugged for one brief year for toting a revolver. A Remus | kills his wife and spends a few short months in & lunatic asylum | And then, just as we get used to this sort of thing, we pick up our papers and find that a six-year-old | toddler from the Kentucky backwoods is going to prison | for 15 years because he took his father’s shotgun and killed a playmate during a row over a piece of old scrap iron. | It happened, in case you don’t recall the circumstances, in Paintsville, Ky. Carl Mahan, aged six. found a piece of old iron and planned to sell it to the junkman. Cecil | Van Hoose, who was eight years old and bigger and | stronger than Carl, took it away from him. | So Carl, having grown up in a region where passions Tun near the surface, and where the shotgun is always &@ good clincher for any argument, went into his house, climbed up on a chair, got down the family shotgun and went out and shot Cecil dead. i Carl went before a jury of his peers—that is, a jury | of Paintsville residents, composed of middle-aged moun- | taineers. It took them just 30 minutes to convict him, and the judge promptly ordered him locked up in the reform school until he reaches the age of 21. To be sure, it isn’t the fault of Paintsville that Chicago. | Philadelphia and Washington are unable or unwilling to punish their law-breakers properly. And it isn’t the fault of these cities that Paintsville orders a six-year-old imprisoned for 15 years. Yet, after all, these places are all parts of the same country. The jurors who acquitted Remus and Sinclair ‘were good sturdy Americans, and so were the jurors who convicted little Carl Mahan. It seems to be a law of our national psychology that we shall be unreasonably sen- timental and savage by turns. ‘What we need, obviously, is not so much a revision of criminal court procedure—though that, of course, would help—as a return of plain, ordinary horse sense. For the conviction of Carl Mahan is just the other side of the Picture that shows the Remuses, Sinclairs and Capones getting off unscathed. As long as we feel that any conceivable good can be done. by sending a kid in his rompers to the reformatory for 15 years, we'll continue to make a grand hash of the business of catching and imprisoning the really dangerous crooks. PROSPERITY FROM A NEW ANGLE ‘The way a thing looks to you depends largely on the angle from which you look at it. If we could get a different viewpoint on certain familiar things we would hardly recognize them. For instance: the Welfare Council of New York City, in a report just issued, points out that the number of jobless “down-and-outers” given free shelter by the municipal lodging house has been rising steadily during the last few years of our “prosperity,” and is now higher than at any time since the hard winter of 1915-16. In 1920, for example, the average daily registration at the lodging house was 69. In 1931 it rose to 251, by 1927 it had gone up to 375, last year it stood at 434, and during .the first three months of this year it has been 72. All of which suggests that this present era of mass Production, stock exchange flurries and high profits may look somewhat different if viewed from the angle of New York's free 16dging house. ‘The report does not try to fix a reason for the great increase in the number of applicants for free lodgings. It points out that there are a good many possible ex- planations. The number of cheap commercial lodging houses may have decreased, the increase in automobiles may have made it easier for job seekers to come to New York, and social agencies may send more applicants to the municipal institution than formerly. But it adds: “There remains the economic theory that fewer and fewer mer are required in manufacturing, owing to the great increase in industrial efficiency, and more and more men become destitute in the process of readjustment before they can be absorbed into other occupations.” To those of us who have jobs, comfortable homes and money in the bank the present era looks very fine. We more things than we ever before dreamed of , and the taste of prosperity is so all-pervading jee] rich even if we are not. We tell ourselves transition periods which punctuate life. often deciding ite meaning. It is both the beginning and the end. It is a time of celebration and jollity but it is also con- ducive to serious thought. Let the high school stud: as ‘te receives his diploma, give serious thought to the question of high ousands who are receiving their bachelor’s and doctor spring should let that event write £ search for knowledge. Resolution is not a common attribute of youth, 3 there should be a resolve in the minds of this commencement season to invest w “mental capital to the benef: Co:nmencem: begins th does not end t ars of work, of s years of taking pleasure in a’ the yea.. of making pleas The world expects much from the educated man and woman, so the road will be easy nor the load light. Two of of fun but it uctivity. The games are education. Too c in on the bench education the A GENEROUS GESTURE h the sanction of the American people icially announced that the Unit itors of Germ ments under the Daw the American people just There is lantic to push G made in Paris on Janua‘ time. rec: paid by Germany for repara' his allotment was of about $13,000,000 annually for ar jon costs and of two and a tions. war claims. Thi claims against Ge: ers of alien prope Present concessions do not dire mately to be received, but by extending the period of Payment effect a decrease in the annual amounts duc. While the 1925 agreement did not require congre mal action, its modification at this time probabl; attract congressional attention, if it does not require action the legislative branch of the gover But American the hold- nt |conceivable that congress will withhold appr President's reasonable action. SERVICE IN PUBLIC OFFICE of city, state and county public officials. This course will undertake to show the duties, powers and responsibilities of public officials. and is designed to put more efficiency into the work rendered by the holders of public office. ‘t's a step in the right direction. undoubtedly. Heaven knows there is hardly a municipal, count te gov- ernment in the country that couldn't stand more effi- ciency and snap. But, unfortunately, the road one. So long as the majority of pol Public office as an opportunity for personal gai | personal aggrandizement, instead of an public service, efficiency in government wil! | be a rare quality. If you think you are Napoleon you are either in an | @sylum or the dictator of some large country. You seldom find a man who is good both at making | Progress and making excuses. Bet the man who invented kissing was surprised at the result. Editorial Comment AN EMBARGO ON THE SHAMROCK «St. Paul Dispatch) The Irish Free state government has put an em- bargo on the exportation of roots of the shamrock. The leaves of the plant may be mailed out, but the roots and every bit of soil must be removed. The governme: goes upon the assumption that the shamrock is so deeply significant of Ireland that it is unwillins to permit the trefoil to flourish away from its native sod. to keep exclusive possession of it. But the embargo serves to reveal a bit of poetic license on the part of the unknown author of Ireland's national song, “The Wear- ing of the Green.” He was no plant pathologist when he wrote: “Then pull the shamrock from your hat and throw it on the sod “And never fear, underfoot it's trod.” “twill take root there, tho’ The “green immortal shamrock” must have roots to grow and the poet had another meaning when he said the leaf tossed on the ground would take root. Other- wise the export embargo would be futile. DOWN WHERE THE TALL COIN GROWS (Minneapolis Journal) versity of Iowa, then the Western Conference's se’ | ance of athletic relations with the Hawkeye school should | have been made immediately effective, involving can- cellation of games in the 1929 season. If proof of p:o- fessionalism at Iowa City is lacking, then Iowa should not have been suspended until and if it is produced. The powers that rule the Western Conference chose | neither course. They seem to have agreed to suspend Towa, pending the proof or refutation of charges that are hedged about with mistaken secrecy; but a: the same time they seem to have agreed to permit sched- uled contests to be played with a school tentatively branded with a stigma of impurity. think, will agree with President Clar- le, of Michigan, that an unwise course has been pursued, a course that can scarcely be called con- | sistent, in that it is either unfair to the other nine uni versities in the conference or unfair to Iowa. Detailed information as to the charges and supporting proof, should have been freely given to Iowa and to the public. in case of immediate severance. And if supporting proof | is lacking, then no public action should have been taken, Pending results of an unadvertised investigation. But what has happened has happened. Wise or un- | wise, the course adopted now places the burden of proof —or rather disproof—upon the Hawkeyes. And the news from Iowa City will hardly convince the public that the disproving job is being undertaken in the manner in which a capable lawyer might undertake it. Throwing decadent eggs at the home of the erstwhile athletic other schools with hav- done the things Iowa is now suspected of having unfortunate for the cause of the counter- toward which they ‘might potnt accusing fingers Sieie y accusing fingers. Major John L. Griffiths, the Judge Landis of the Big Ten. that particular line of defense clear out of the with the retort that. in the matter of clean ath- ¥ isthe best in the conference. present iddle west, i. i at storm > with come ms: of it. that ag long | Considering the sacred and patriotic nature of the em- | blem little criticism can be aroused over the Irish desire THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE % are over and | hard work are | In Darkest America! The University of Southern California this summer | will hold a special course in public service for the benefit | Ellen Wilkinson, red-headed | ist_ member of parliament, has} ublished a novel. Under thin | j disguises it discusses her fellow M. | | P's, . They are rather wriggly about | the novel, and look forward to a se- | sively. They | too, about jt merely to write | |@ smart and lucrative book. i ko O* HOW ABOUT MEN? The tempest all inds me of cer- tain other books about the great | which were published in anonymity + and traced to male authors. Women, when they take their pen in hand, | Just seem to dare to be a little more {frank. Women. too, intelligent ones, | at least, have the faculty of squeez- | ing ev ‘ituation di They are not tent to be M. P.’s. They want e about it, too. here are infinitely more women | successful in their business and pro- | fessions who take their pens in hand | interpret that profession than! are men who do the same thing. seem content with cr Job—not | ‘0 oF more. \t | x ek * WHEN IT’S FASHION Suppose that the dressmakers put | ; Out a new dress in a certain shade of blue. They don't consider that dress really a success, “a fashion,” till 35 LJ This is truly remarkable, woman had never danced a as the tep in her life till she entered the class at} the age of 80. It is remarkable n so much as a tale of physical achieve- ment, but of mental and emotional. When @ woman raised in one era ; suddenly assumes the customs of a! new era, she has performed as gallant | @ feat as any human being ever does} —this transferring oneself from the Past to the present. ** * HOW OLD IS ANN? Just why any commotion should be { made about the fact that most of our | congresswomen gave their ages in the | { WHY CAMP? i (By Alice Judson Peale) | What can a summer camp do for | your child? If he were otherwise doomed to spend the summer in the paved city streets. the answer is obvious enough. __MAY 31, 1929 HEALTH DIET ADVICE Mts Ie Saat May 70 Sale. Dr. McCoy's menus suggested for the week beginning Sunday, June 2nd. es watt with a lit Breakfast—Crisp waffle, a lit- tle maple syrup, small piece of broil- ed ham. Lunch—Corn on cob, spinach, salad of chopped cabbage and cold cooked string beans. Dinner—Baked chicken, asparagus, steamed carrots, salad of raw celery, raspberry ice cream. Monda; iy Breakfast—Coddied eggs, melba toast, 5 stewed prunes. Lunch—Grapefruit as desired. Dinner—Broiled steak, squash, cooked celery, salad of lettuce and tomatoes, pineapple whip. Tuesday Breakfast—French omelet on re- toasted Shredded Wheat biscuit, stewed raisins. Lunch—Botled potatoes, cooked greens, such as kale or dandelions. Dinner—Roast mutton, cooked string beans, buttered beets, salad of shredded raw cabbage, cup custard. Wednesday Breakfast—Wholewheat muffins, peanut butter, pear sauce. Lunch—Raw apples and pecans. Dinner—Vegetable soup, boiled lean beef. baked grated carrots, spinach, salad of chopped cucumbers in beef jelly, dish of berries. Thursday Breakfast—Poached eggs on melba toast, stewed raisins. Lunch—Stewed corn, 5 minute cab- bage, lettuce. Dinner—Broiled lamb chops, cooked celery, eggplant, cauliflower salad, Jello with cream. Friday Breakfast—Cottage cheese, Pineapple. Lunch—Choice of as much as de- sired of any one of the fresh acid fruits, such es apples, oranges, etc. Dinner—Baked sea bass, baked stuffed tomatoes, string bean salad, no desert. sliced Saturday Breakfast—Baked eggs, toasted tris- cuit, stewed figs. Lunch—pint of buttermilk, 10 or 12 dates. Dinner—Roast pork, French arti- chokes, baked ground beets, molded vegetable salad of green peas, celery, baked apple, no cream. Baked stuffed tomatoes: Remove the interior from the desired number of firm tomatoes, but do not peel. Mix this scooped out portion with the ! | me! last congressional directory is beyond | But if you are so fortunate as to live | same amount of chopped mushrooms That women are unwilling to, Within walking distance of the woods,|and a smaller amount of finely give their ages has been an exploded Or if you own a summer refuge in! ground celery. Fill tomatoes to over- \ ‘Fora. myth for some time. least they iz to give an age for some time; whether the right age or not is another matter. sional ages these days, just as they have social and professional names! BARBS ! Wreng food is the chief cause of in, disease and crime, says Henry President Hoover evidently hadn't heard of that Pointed his crime commission. ° Newspaper dispatches say the Tac- na-Arica dispute has been settled, but didn’t say who was objecting to taking it, or whether or not they ‘preferred sulphur and molasses. Add this to your list of similes: cold as a hot-roasted peanut in a ball park. per cent of all women are wearing { that blue dress. In oth 89 out of 250 women must sponsor a; fashion before its launchers draw a) | relieved breath. see i SHE TOOK IT { | Constance Bennett, young. pretty, ! talented, accepted one million dollars {in alimony from her ex-husband, Phillip Plant, thus shattering our! prevalent idea that the modern} | Woman capable of self-support spurns | alimony. Perhaps she does when it's to the tune of $20 a week, but a cool million | is a different ting Wis spurned. * i BULLY FOR GRANDMA! A grandmother of 81 recently made her debut as premiere danseuse of a | certain dancing class in Cleveland, O. It is estimated that a cow moves | her jaws 41,000 times a day. And doesn't say a word to hurt anyone either. An ounce of prevention is better} than an official probe. Mussolini has a plan to give the fathers of the largest families the best jobs. Wonder what assignment that will leave. open for the couple with “the canary that seems almost human.” An explorer brought back a couple | of cannibals from Africa recently. How about a test just to make sure they're cannibals, beginning with a couple of radio entertainers. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Most women have social and profes- | | doors with one’s family is one thing, | | when he ap- | AS; ‘ some remote, secluded spot, where the | | children can “live like Indians,” it is | | mot apparent that a summer camp} | has anything unique to offer. | And yet it has. Summer out of }and probably a very delightful one, | {but summer out of doors in the ex- | | clusive society of playmates and} {equals is quite another. | What can camp do for your child| ;that you are unable to do? Many | things. It can teach him to get | along without you for a short period ef time. The harder this lesson, the more important it is for him to | learn. + It can give him opportunity to ac- ‘quire in an environment which is at i once stimulating and safe all sorts of i physical skill for the learning of \ hich no home has resources or equipment. Camp can teach your child to get along with children of his own age— | here there are no special immunities {and he must learn to give and take | with the rest. He quite rightly takes his*parents’ 'love for granted, but the approval of ‘the group he must win through his j own efforts. He gains the respect of j his fellows because he learns to do things well, because he is a good sport. because he never squeals or grouches. The influence of life in a good camp is all toward the development of those social virtues which life demands of everyone. 1 Usedom, Germany.—(?)— After months of idleness because of ice in the Baltic the fleet of this fishing village put to sea and caught 30,000 {pounds on the first haul. The men |said their nets suddenly became so heavy they could scarcely be dragged into the boats. | H If football players have been subsidized at the Uni- | A ME EB ODOM ny ee ny THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of America—the Johnstown flood. On May 31, 1889, less than a month after the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of Washington and the beginning of our government un- der the Constitution was celebrated by a gala exposition in New York City, the county was plunged into sorrow by the sudden horror which befell this peaceful western Pennsyl- vania community. A sudden break in the dam at the outlet of Conemaugh Lake released a 40-foot wall of water, half a mile across, which swept down through a deep and narrow valley. In less than 15 minutes the flood waters had swirled over 18 miles. In that brief ‘length of time, it swept seven towns off the map and ended by carrying away the greater part of Johnstown. The flood choked the entire valley with ruins and claimed 2209 lives. ‘The property damage was estimated at $10,000,000 in official figures. |” Our Yesterdays | ® FORTY YEARS AGO D. S. Tyler, Bismarck’s accom- plished gunsmith, has returned from Towa where he has been visiting old time friends and relatives. Mrs. Martin J. Kearns left yester- day for San Diego, Calif., where she Plans to spend some time regaining her health. E. B. Palmer, territorial auditor for flowing and around sides with this mixture, and sprinkle melba toa, crumbs over all, Bake in eartnen- ware or cooking glass in moderate oven for about twenty minutes. (Longer tenders the tomatoes too mushy.) Add @ generous lump of butter to each tomato with a sprin- kling of chopped parsley when ready to serve. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Swollen Nose Question: Mrs. A. D. writes: “My nose is swollen all the time. Is there any relief in a correct diet?” Answer: You do not say whether or not the swelling is caused by pim- ples or boils in your nose. If this is the cause, of course it can be entire- ly eliminated through @ correct diet. A red nose usually comes from some irritation of the alimentary canal and Question: Reader asks: the cause of sudden hungriness? If I do not eat the minute I feel hungry I become terribly weak. I am also Answer: Most people will have a feeling of gnawing when their stom- achs .become empty, although this is not true hunger. This gnawing or empty feeling often makes a person nervous and he will suffer from the delusion that he is suddenly quite weak. He will then believe that he feels strength immediately upon eat- ing. Food cannot give you any real strength until after it has been in the body for at least four hours. For your underweight I would advise you to select your food very carefully and not try to “stuff” to gain. Just keep your diet well balanced. Arterial Tension Question: E. I. H. asks: “What is arterial tension? How do we know when we have it?” Answer: The amount of arterial tension which you have is determined by an examination with a blood pres- sure meter which every doctor uses in his office. Such arterial tension may come from hardening of the arteries or from nervousness which causes the arteries to become con- tracted most of the time. “Farm relief is an economic, uot @ political, question, a question of dollars in or out of pocket.”—Repre- sentative Hill, Washington. se “I presume an investigation would show that almost every newspaper in the country had had ah opportunity to sell to the power interests.”—Sen- ator Norris, Nebraska. xe * “If we enforce our rules on our- selves we will not have any trouble with the newspapers."—Senator Borah, Idaho. ~DOowN AT TH’ BARBER SHoP, TH? BARBERS ARE JUST PuTTiNG TH? SOAP ON A CUSTOMER'S FACE, AN LETTING HiM LAUGH UP A LATHER WHILE HE TELLS How “TH? WomeN oF “Ti” NeiGHBoRHooD RUN You AN? TH’ owl's cLUB oFF YOUR HORSE-SHoE coURTS fu. THey TELL ME IT WAS A BATTLE *~AN' WHEN HW SmoKE CLEARED AWAY, .EVERY FeNce HAD A PIECE OF PANTS YES, DRAT IT, ~~ IT was y A Ridiculous AFFAIR J: 4 —~THoSE SCREAMING AMAZONS CHARGED US wrt BROOMS, CARPET- BEATERS, ~ ANYTHING | wit] A HANDLE, AND TRoUNceD EVERYONE OF Us, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MYSELF, ~~ I WAS Too NIMBLE-FooTED | mw w+ EGAD, I WENT THRU THE WHOLE the past two years, left today for his home at Pierre. His successor is W. W. Girton, editor of the Vilas Farmer. Governor Pierce has gone to James- town and Valley City. At the latter place he delivered the Memorial Day address. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Alice Haley is in the city visit- ing her cousin Miss Lulu Kupits. E. G. Patterson left today for Cleveland, Ohio, to visit his mother. Mrs. G. T. LaJord arrived home to- day from a visit with her parents in Minnesota. > CAUGHT ON 'EM From You GUYS SCRAMBLING over | a ee BoER WAR, AND saw LESS onl f= * * “The modern inventor is frequently an up-to-date expert in his particu- lar line of work—often a trained engi- Robertson, neer.”—T. E. er of patents, U. 8. Department of Commerce. Ciegon) Pept) “We may see, in the near future, controlled by auto- matic ‘William P. Mac- Cracken, Jr., assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics. dinavian Singers Unite in Big Festival