The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1929, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ™ ‘The Bismarck Tribune Ap independent Newspiper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) the Bismarck Tribune Compeny, Bis- entered at the postoffice at Bismarck may ioe ¢ entitled to the use Associated ext 2 republication of all news dispatches credited to it not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also news ot spontaneous publisher herein. tepublication of all other matter herein Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY ‘The director of the New York Welfare council, issuing some sort of statement about the work of his organiza- tion, speaks of New York as “the biggest, richest and most important city in the world.” Very likely it is the biggest, although a Londoner might be disposed to start an argument about it. Surely it is the richest; never in all history has there been such a concentration of wealth in one place. But most im- portant? There's something else again. ‘We have always worshiped bigness in this country. It is instinctive for us to feel that the largest thing must be the best. And it is easy to be dazzled by New York. Stay there for a while and you get the feeling that nothing that happens anywhere else really matters. You speak of other places as “the provinces,” and feel sorry for the luckless mortals who cannot experience the subway jams, cramped living quarters and eternal confusion of the ‘Yes, New York is very big and dazzling. But most im- portant? It is foolish to call it that. There isn't any “most important” city—or, if there is, its identity is dif- ferent for each man on earth. ‘Your own most important city may be the town you live in. It may be the place where you were raised, made important to you now by the haze of old memories that has settled about its unforgotten outlines. Or it may be some distant town where something important once hap- pened to you; a town in which you got one of those mo- mentary, elusive experiences that life sometimes offers, in which the heavens were parted and you could see, for & space, your own divinity. ‘Things like that happen unexpectedly. They are not explainable. They come without being asked, and they cannot be made to come back on demand. Yet all of us, at one time or another, experience them. A man goes on his daily round, as he has gone on it for years, unsuspecting. Then, one day, there comes & moment in which things are transfigured, and the world wears a new aspect. His familiar home street, perhaps, appears to him in a new light. It is no longer an ordi- nary roadway flanked by ordinary houses and apart- ments; it is an enchanted lane, about which are grouped the temporary stopping places of tired and groping men and women who are making the universal pilgrimage from imperfection to perfection, from ugliness to beauty, from selfishness and cowardice to heroic self-sacrifice. After that the old routine returns. But it is never quite the same again. The man knows, now, that the world is not what ke had supposed it, but far better. The place where that sort of thing comes to you is, to you, earth's most important spot. Statistics of size and wealth do not count. Every town can be a window through which unseen things can be glimpsed. And life can hold no more important experience. MAKING HIGHWAYS SAFER Bureaucracy occasionally accomplishes something of value to the people as a whole. Though federal and state bureaus and departments and commissions seem to be engaged largely in catering to the whims of cranks and minorities with a “cause,” they can on occasion con- ceive an idea or promulgate a program of some use to humanity. From the Pennsylvania state highway department has come an idea which was immediately adopted by the legislature of that state and 1s likely to meet with ap- proval in other commonwealths. Two or three years ago states here and there conducted, through their highway administrations, motor vehicle inspection and repair campaigns designed to reduce to a minimum the number of cars and trucks with defective brakes, steering mechanism and lights. In each instance the percentage of defective vehicles was alarmingly large. Pennsylvania did not miss the moral taught by these campaigns. Beginning in 1930, it will make two inspec- tions a year, using state police and the state motor patrol sorts of deeds of daring or endurance that have never been contemplated before. Among these contemplaters there are some who be- lieve the realization is better than the anticipation, but by far the greater number are satisfied with the recog- nition they receive as mere contemplaters. For instance, there will be more projected transatlantic flights this year than there will be actual hops across the big pond. And more will scan the British channel than will jump into its chill and choppy waters. Why not an association of contemplaters? It would | not suffer for lack of eligible candidates. Each May and dune bring out a fresh crop of contemplative aviators and swimmers, and men and women who never take the won- derful vacation trips they plan all their lives are legion Membership in such a lodge or fraternity would at least afford as much satisfaction as affiliation with that | mythical lodge of defeated presidential candidates. | JOHN JAY’S IDEA | In the early days of the United States, John Jay ne- gotiated a treaty with Spain that turned out to be un- popular—so unpopular that to prevent pacts that would | serve one part of the country but be injurious to other Parts, the constitution was amended to provide that no undertaking can be entered into by the United States un- til it shall have been submitted to and approved by the | senate. This has turned out to be a very handy arrangement Not only does it serve the purpose originally aimed at, but it has enabled America to have things pretty much her own way in international negotiations of every kind. The representatives of Washington cannot definitely and finally agree to anything, while the representatives of other nations can. So this is what happens. The Washington conferees press for and get conceded to them every possible point in order to get the deal through the senate. The other nations sign up, but the United States has another whack at the agreement; the senate | makes alterations in it or adds reservations and the other | countries can accept these or see the whole thing fall. From the American point of view the system works | admirably until the senate goes on one of its sprees of willfulness and pettiness. Then John Jay is blamed for getting the nation in the muddle. A prediction is made that women's hats will become standardized. Of course a man who doesn’t know any- thing about the nature of women was the author of it. ‘We would hate to be a great man and get laughed at | Just because we didn’t keep on being great. Many of us can see how the styles have changed by | comparing our suits with the new ones. | The trouble with a girl throwing herself at a man is she has to pick herself up afterward. It's the horn of plenty that starts many a man on a toot with a siren. -— Editorial Comment WHAT SLEEP IS GOOD FOR (New York Times) Not so long ago college boys were passing sleepless nights in the interest of science to demonstrate the deleterious effects of going without sleep. More recently Colgate university has been giving the boys naps of vary- ing lengths to discover the positive benefits of sleep. These tests must be even more painful than the long vigils. It is no fun to be allowed to sleep soundly for an hour and then be rudely wakened and set to counting dots, without even the aid of “finger pointing.” Results of the tests show that four hours of sleep suf- fice to restore the purely physical functions to normal. Some of them seem to be completely restored with only one hour of sleep. For recovery of mental powers much more sleep is needed. Every additional hour of sleep shows an increase in mental capacity, and the director of the psychological laboratory finds that eight hours are none too many for re-establishing learning ability and trying mental functions. The experiments indicate also that the recuperative values of sleep are dependent upon sleeping equipment and environment. The moral to be drawn by the student is obvious. If he finds himself getting dangerously low marks, more sleep is indicated. If eight hours daily do not secure Passing grades, let him try ten or even twelve. Contin- uous hibernation, outside of lecture hours, should insure @ Phi Beta Kappa key. MAKING A LANGUAGE (St. Paul Dispatch) Sir William A. Craigie, who was knighted by King George for his share in bringing the monumental Oxford dictionary to completion, is now in Chicago beginning a ten-year job of writing an American-English dictionary. It will be compiled from strictly American literature from the seventeenth century onward. But it will not be confined to that. Sir William ‘has discovered American slang and likes it. He will use it to illustrate the meaning of words and show the growth of and even the birth of an American language. He chuckles delightedly over our expression, “It's up to finds “to take a back seat” impressive and thinks “to face the music” is perfectly descriptive of courage. “The United States is now at a period in its develop- ment which corresponds closely to the Elizabethan era in England,” Dr. Craigie explains. “It is a period of in- tellectual creativeness. The extraordinary facility that is exhibited in coining picturesque and expressive slang is only one manifestation of this.” So he revels in a new language and is delighted when he finds some perfectly good American word neglected or scorned by American lexicographers.- Webster's first dic- tionary omitted such words as “pecan,” “political plat- form,” “pow-wow” and “pone,” he has discovered. Pur- ists here may sigh over corruption of English through the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘Give Me a Lever Long Enough and a Prop Strong Enough, and I Can ALLENE SUMNER, A collection of Richard Wagner let- ters, diaries and journals, and even some unpublished works, has just been unearthed by an American play- wright in London, and it is prophesied that it will shake two nations, as Germany is bound to get hold of this intimate matter about one of her greatest geniuses. * ee THE LOVE ELEMENT More commotion is being raised about what is called “the famous missing letter to Mathilde” than any other feature of the find. Wagner wrote this letter to Mathilde Wesen- bock, for whom he wrote “Tristan and Isolde.” He sent the second act to her with the note. His wife, Minna, intercepted the letter. Wagner left home, and Minna died of a broken heart. There are hundreds of beauti- ful letters which passed between Wagner and Minna in the collection, too. ** * THE SECOND WIFE Meanwhile, with all the artistic world on tiptoe over the find, Cosima Wagner, second wife of Richard Wag- ner, is alive in Bayreuth. She is 94. One wonders a little about her thoughts and emotions as she reads the heart of her husband as it was Jong years ago before she was in his life. How remote and old it will all seem to her, and how her age—94— reminds us all that nothing, after all, matters so much for so very long! And how true it appears again that the strangeness of life is not so much the myriad different people there are, = the myriad people one person can x * * HE THOUGHT TOO LATE Explaining in a farewell note that life was too hard in trying to support self and bride on army pay of $34.50 @ month, Private Charles Cantu, 27, attached to the Statue of Liberty Mil- itary police, shot himself and bride two days after they were married. It's tragic, of course, and it would be hard, indeed, for two to live on $34.50 a month, even if Uncle Sam did 1 ter. eee | THEY'LL GO HOME | Still, the young man must have joes his income before he married, and why will they do it when they can't? He took his way out in his own way. Hundreds of other June grooms and brides will take their way out, not with a pistol shot, but by gallavantin’ back home to one mother or the other, and the old folks can figure it out for them. | Our Yesterdays 1 FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. J. A. Eppler arrived today from Seattle, Wash., to visit her brother, A. M. Thompson. Norman Gray has gone to Minne- apolis to spend the summer visiting relatives. Hon. John C. Hollembeck returned yesterday from Yankton where he has (been transacting legal business. Miss Belle Flynn, Mandan, is here ‘for a visit with Mrs, Frank LaWall. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO J. P. Brastad, Minneapolis phy- sician, has arranged to open an office in Washburn, Mrs. Florence Hufitley is paying Bis- {marck a visit-after an absence of ‘sixteen years. Mrs. Huntley recently | published two popular books. i Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pollard have ar- rived home after visiting relatives in { Minneapolis. Major Harry Leonhauser, new com- mandant at Fort Lincoln, has arrived and assumed his duties at the post. TEN YEARS AGO A 36-inch sewer will be laid on j Front street from Tenth to the river. James Knappen is the winner of the high school alumni toast contest. The winning toast will be given at the banquet this week. Dr. and Mrs, Wiseheart, Glen Ullin, visited friends here Saturday en route home from Minnesota. Mrs. F. E. Irish has returned to her home in St. Paul after a visit here with her daughter, Miss Vivian Irish. provide the beans and bread and but- | r. BARBS i Move the World | HORRID CREATURES (By Alice Judson Peale) When your child goes walking in the country, does he find it full of horrid creatures? Does he jump in terror if a little green snake glides across his path or shudder with dis- gust when a spider runs over his arm? Does he believe that if you Children acquire such fears through mistaken ideas and through seeing adults who are afraid. One of the best ways of curing them is to show that you yourself feel neither fear nor revulsion. You can teach your child, instead, that you consider these creatures extremely interesting and even rather charming. Tell him that snakes are not slimy and that only very few of them are venomous. Assure him that, although toads look warty, they cannot possi- bly give warts. Explain that none of our common spiders are capable of ES @ toad you are bound to get 5 giving a bite worthy of the name. Cultivating a real acquaintance with these much-maligned animals + will help further to dispel the silly |fear in which they are held. Call your child into the garden early in the morning so that he can examine the marvel of spider webs, still per- fect and heavy with dew. Let him make friends with the old toad who lives at the foot of the garden. Pick up a little snake and invite him to feel its curiously dry skin, observe minutely its beautiful coloring and the swift grace of its motions. Go to your librarian and let her help you to select books which tell the fascinating truth about these crea- tures. Your child will become so in- terested that he will forget he ever was afraid. ? > Among other unbecoming costumes was the cloak of secrecy the United States senate tried to wear in the Lenroot case. Reporters are fighting to have the garment checked at the door. x ke ‘Two Texans hold the air endurance mark, but surely the mark of 172 tiago Harbor | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern ) sd AGAR-AGAR OR JAPANESE GELATIN Seaweeds are among the most abundant of nature's products, yet they offer very little in the way of nutrition. Agar-agar and other sim- ilar seaweed are valuable because of the large amount of bulky material which they contain and for this rea- son they can be used to advantage by many people wro are troubled with constipation, since the average per- son uses a diet which is far too con- centrated. Agar-agar is composed chiefly of a carbohydrate called gelose which is similar to cellulose. This vegetable is really a sea grass or algae, and in its commercial form appears as thin, transparent strips. It is really insol- uble in cold water, but is easily dis- solved in hot water and forms a gel- atinous mass. When prepared in this manner, it is colorless and almost tasteless, except when it is not high- ly refined, and has a slight flavor of sea water. ‘The edible birds’ nests of China are made of a similar seaweed which is eaten by swallows and later disgorged for the construction of their nests. These birds’ nests are considered a delicacy in China where they are Generally utilized in making soups. About three million pounds of agar- agar are annually exported from Japan to America and Europe, but there are now several companies on the American seacoast that are en- gaged in converting these seaweeds into the commercial agar-agar. Agar-agar can be secured in the drug store in its crude form, or the purverized kind can be purchased in Packages. It is also employed in the manufac- ture of various food products, such as jams, jellies and ice cream, and is also used in textile silk and other industries and by bacteriologists for making an excellent medium in which to develop bacteria. Although there is practically no nourishment in agar-agar, it does contain small amounts of potassium and iodine. Those who are troubled with con- stipation can do well to try agar-agar treatment, at least for a short time. One way of preparing it is to pour @ cup of boiling hot water over a heaping tablespoon of the granulated kind. Let it stand until it has cooled sufficient to drink and take it just before going to bed. Another way is to put some of the granulated agar in soup when it is hours can be bettered by. some fili- bustering congressman. * * Detroit typifies the American melt- ing pot, @ Detroiter writes to the newspaper. And the melting pot, by the way, produces some pretty good ** & A runaway team in Evanston, Ill, stopped at a red traffic light. And-yet People say that man is a superior animal. * oe OK Some of the profits being made in the stock market these days are with- out honor. * * * The tariff on figs has been in- creased. Aha, that’s the answer—a fig for farm relief! (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) aaa SSSS AN OBSCURE MERRIMAC In American naval history the name Merrimac is associated chiefly with the ironclad Confederate war- ship which fought the Union Monitor in the world’s first battle of iron- clad ships, A humbler Merrimac played @ thrilling part in American history 31 years ago today. It was a com- monplace collier to which clung none of the glamour associated with the south’s unique Merrimac. It owes its fame to the fact that it was sunk. And not after a gallant fight against @ stronger foe, but purposely, and by . its own men. Early in the summer of 1898, dur- ing our war with Spain, seven Span- ish ships had been bottled up in San- On June 3, it was decided to sink the collier at the entrance to the harbor and imprison the Spanish fleet. Lieutenant Richard Hobson and seven seamen were entrusted with HEALTH@DIET ADVICE ait Yio Seat My Q 72 Saal . This will make the soup thicker, but it remains just as pal- Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health end diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped, cddresred envelope for reply. atable, as the agar-agar has practic- ally no flavor. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Toothache Question: L. J. N. asks: “What can be done to stop toothache in the absence of a dentist?” Answer: Paint the gums around the tooth with some oil of cloves or, if the tooth is hollow, pack in some cot- ton that has been soaked in the oil of cloves. Salt Question: A. A. B. asks: “Is com- mon table salt necessary to the body? I have been told that one would lose weight if it were not used.” Answer: Inorganic sodium chlorid is never necessary for the body, as this salt is found in an organic form in vegetables and other foods. There is no harm in using a small amount to imitate that which has been de- stroyed in cooking, but it will have no perceptible effect one way or another upon your weight. Tubercular Gland Question: A. E. C. asks: “What treatment do you recommend for bo- vine tubercular gland of the neck?” Answer: The treatment consists, first, in creating a healthier condition of all the glands of the body through @ proper dietetic treatment; then, along with this, certain local treat- ments can be used over the affected gland. These are given with hot compresses and the application of certain electrical treatments. Removing a Verruca Question: F. 8. writes: “I have what the doctor calls a verruca on my hand. Would a lack of salt in my diet cause this, and how can I re- move it?” = Answer: A verruca is a wart and there are many different types. It is Possible that a fasting and dieting regime followed by’ a local cautery treatment on the verruca would over- come it. A lack of salt in the dict would not cause this, but general acidosis might be responsible. (Copyright, 1929, by the Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) most the same as those we use in talking. Each impulse is the expres- sion of thought. Hands Work With Mind Doctors tell us that adults who have had this brain area destroyed often lose the power of speech simul- taneously with the paralysis of the right hand; such people do not often regain the power of speech. But this must not be confused with paralytic stroke, which is different. On the other hand we are told that where such accidents have happened. to children and they were compelled to use the left hand, Nature has taken advantage of youth, as usual, and built up @ new speech area on the right side. The child often leams to talk as well as ever. It does seem therefore, that the exercise of the hands materially affects the pover of speech, Isn't that good argument fa the Premise that if human beings |were trained to be double-handed or am- bidextrous that in time—it it _be ones of course—men wouldihave two perfectly developed speech preas instead of one? “There is no such thing as the hon- by an American fleet. | or of @ collective body.”—Emil jy German biographer. i on ia * as the necessary “moral suasion.” One enforced inspection, followed by no others, af- fords but a temporary guarantee to the careful driver that in his travels he will not share the highways with thousands of vehicles which, for one reason or several. are unfit to be on the public highways. Two enforced inclusion of words of debatable.origin or meaning, but if the slang of today is classic tomorrow Americans will not ised deplore the growth and development of a national ongue. the dangerous maneuver. They took the ship to the entrance of the har- bor, under heavy fire, and sunk her | Prob by means of torpedoes aboard. The ship failed to sink at the proper point, however, and the crew was captured. ZA a ~ B-B-BU-BUSTER M'LAD, ~ THAT 1S A LETTER X RECEIWED. TODAY FROM ENGLAND,~—AND I WANT You To READ IT To me Ju ~~ MY HAND “TREMBLES So FROM “AMoS 8. HooPLE, ESQ.= DEAR SIR; w~ ENCLOSED 1S DRAFT For £80,710 PAY YoUR TRANSPORTATION “To ENGLAND FoR CLOSING oF {) ‘HARD WHEAT DEBENTURES (Havre, Mont., News) Supposing the proposed export debenture would work S\N toward making the guaran- pi . land, an area, i nyse lead gaara and promising method | for the benefit of the producer and not of the middieman| { “ READING 11 “THE FIRST “TIME, THe RUFUS HooPLe & ATs YOUR Ce nae Pe 4 permanent. who does the exporting; taking it for granted that it Ps I caN'y HOLD IT SriLL ENOUGH WHICH HAS BEEN I at present.”—Dr. O. E. Baker, econo- of accident prevention. does work as its advocates predict, what benefit would it B A PROBATE THE PAST TWENTY mist in t of Agricul- = 4 wich et mag tect womss] OPED AORN. 2 SEC, Db tears rrissccessa’ | | CHILDREN |* Zz makes no distinction between whea\ Z be at NOTEWORTHY SOREUAMENT | of different kinds, Neither then would the export de-| 4 WHAT I READ WAS TRUE f are Nod MAKE THE TRIP = 7 Big Ben can be heard to strike four | Reginald Robbins Laps for 172 hours | Uenture.. ‘The grower of soft spring wheat, provided the > ~~ TAKE IT SLOWLY. & miles from . 4 F ing their monoplane Fort Worth in the air for 172 hours | grower did not get the benefit of the debenture, would = ? CommuNicaTe wit (©1728 by NEA Servicane = makes one wond=r which part is moze worthy of edmira- | profit as much as the grower of higher priced wheats. < MLAD ! WHITNEY & wHitNey, —— 4 FANNY S AYS: tion—the roiiabitity c2 the ship, which stayed eway fsom| Furthermore, it is the cheaper wheats that are ex- ET ST. The longer I live the less reason I (FLAPPER FANN) cet the g:cund for more then a welt, or the sill and en- | Ported from this country because the high protein wheats SOLICITORS,~ 260 FLE! ° see for making the genius man a one-| . Bilas Se = ie . get a premium that makes them too high priced for ex- ONDON; ENG= handed creature. Why in the world i durance of tne two men wid kept ‘i up there. Port purposes. If the debenture worked automatically, as u ag we take lead pencils and forks and The builders ed design-rs of our cirplanes and motors | claimed, to raise the price of the cheap wheats 21 cents RESPECTFULLY, needles from children’s left hands must have their jovs preity well in hand wren they ean | above the foreign market level, it would also tend to hold 7. WHITNEY, % and transfer them to the right, I bulld ships thet will do what the Fort Worth aia | the price of high, protein wheat down to a maximum ACT. * don’t know. Bimilerly, our sirpiene pilcts must be a pzetty sturdy)" The debenture, even if successful, could not be expected te eee with the "enviable itt of breed when two “1 owns” can do the work that Rob-|to add anything to the high premium wheats of the using both hands with equal facility. t bins and Kelly did. northwest, because they would be brought above the Thén what happened? Ail fo ail the schisvement speaks volumes for the | Ctuadlan hard wheat in price on the European, market. Py A eae advance of avistion. It may be, as prominent flyers | debenture will profit the farmer, inasmuch as the bonus } thonths. What's 1 te be born have said, thet we still have @ lot to learn about the| goes to the exporters in the first instance and he must ambidextrous 1 to be one of sell it to an importer. the Pieces of luck a person But eae M fogs it does help the farmer, it must can have. necessar! Result of Brain Structure ‘There are so many reasons for beving two sates Seams, aside rom Obvious one of convenience, ef- ficlency, and insurance against acci- ‘The speech area or the part of the spang the motor nerves of the right arm ‘Al NJ! centusted by the fact that the mental 3 Processes we use in writing are al-