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

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune Ap tndependent Newspiper THE STALES OLUES1 NEWSPAPER (Establisnea '873) Publishea oy the Bismarck [ribune Company Bis- marck. N. D., and enterea at the postoffice st Bismarck a second class mail matter. ‘ George D. Mann ............... Preside.it and e.clisher Suoscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year .......... Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail, 2e: year, (in state, outside Bisinarck) . Daily by mail. outside,ot North Dak: Weekly by mali in state. per year . 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Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) pea) | i MAKING TOOLS OF TOYS i Ray Little, a veteran aviator who flew the first cast- | bound transcontinental air mail plane out of San Fran-/ cisco in 1920, and who has been flying in that service ever | since, is getting very disillusioned about the business of | flying. Aviation is a dandy calling, he says, except that it is} no longer thrilling. It used to be dangerous and exciting; now it is neither, and the pilot's chief trouble is the bore- | dom that sooner or later settles upon him. We who are still held to the ground don’t usually look at it that way. An airplane, to us, is still a thing of | wonder, The pilot belongs to a tribe that is set apart from people of common clay. The race has not yet worn its wings long enough to take them for granted. But Little—and most experienced pilots, we suspect, share his feelings—finds that piloting an airplane is just another job. It is too safe, too certain, too regular; and because it is all of these things it has lost its kick. All of this, as at first glance, looks like noth$ig but the casual comment of a somewhat blase flyer. But it is really a symptom of something very important. It means that the airplanc—this strange, glittering new tool that mankind has been fumbling with for two decades—has at last been about mastered. We are learn- ing how to use it. In a very short time the country at large will share Pilot Little's opinion about flying—and then we'll be ready to go on and tackle something else. During the last 25 years or so we have developed a great many new tools. Each one has been a sort of toy, at first. Little by little, however, we have discovered the ways in which they can make life freer and richer; and as those dis- coveries come, the tools cease to be toys and become im- portant weapons in the fight to lift ourselves into a ‘broader and more open region of existence. ‘We have not yet mastered them all. We have a great heap of them—airplanes, radios, moving pictures, new chemical processes that can hit drudgery and poverty a! death blow, electrical appliances that can set us free fvom small tasks and petty annoyances; but we haven't yet found out how to use them to the best advantage. They still dazzle us. Eventually we shall master them all and take them for granted. When that day comes we shall be able to transform our daily life in a way we never thought Possible. So it is that Pilot Little's remarks are more significaat than that gallant aviator dreams. They indicate that we are turning the airplane from a toy into a tool. THE OIL CONFERENCE For several years the federal government and admin- istrations in the oil states have been agitating for oil conservation. These activities were concurrent with sin- cere attempts on the part of some of the oil producers to reach a gentlemen's agreement which would end cut- throat and wasteful competitive methods. Nothing came of all this. Impatient with the ineffectual efforts of the past, Pres- ident Hoover has stepped in. Without ceremony of for- mality he has summoned the governors of nine western and southwestern oil-producing states to a conference in Colorado Springs on June 10 at which Washington will be represented by Secretary Wilbur and technical ex- perts. From the forthcoming conference the chief executive expects an interstate pact outlawing waste in the oil fields. He intends to make it inexpedient for the states and interests concerned to reject his proposition. The program to be laid before the conferees is aimed Jess at curtailment than at the prevention of inexcusable waste. There is no intention to create an artificial short- age of fuel oil, but it is proposed to halt the wasteful and uneconomic practice of rival interests hastily drain- ing fields jointly held in the hope of getting the lion's share of the pool. This practice has unnecessarily dis- sipated the nation’s fuel supply, and, instead of forcing down oil and gasoline prices, has had a tendency to boost prices, possibly to place upon the consumer the costs of storing surplus supplies and of wasteful production methods. GERMANY’S MERCHANT FLEET REVIVES You can't keep a good man—or a good nation—down for long. ‘The World war virtually wiped out the German mer- chant marine fleet, once one of the greatest in the world. After the armistice, merchant ships flying the German flag were scarce. Now, however, the German merchant fleet is four- fifths as large as it was in its palmy pre-war days. It had in 1914 a tonnage of 5,200,000; now it has more than 4,000,000, and is growing fast. Only the British and American merchant fleets sur- pass it in size; and a writer in the current World's Work predicts that Germany's fleet will pass America’s in the next few years and press hard on the heels of Britain. the country. Wall Street is doing something to shake this faith. The federal reserve board has been unwill- ingly contributing to the same end. But a congressional assault on the banking system, led by members of con- gress who feel that speculation is evil because it is too much like playing cards for money, could do more dam- age in a day than Wall Street could accomplish in a year of roaring bull markets. So the nation breathed a sigh of relief when assured that the concerns and troubles of the federal reserve board are not to be permitted to culminate in an orgy of congressional meddling with the banking and credit machinery of the nation. ‘The wild proposals of “a law to prevent speculation” and of “laws to extend the power of the federal reserve board” have brought only ironic or angry comment from leaders in both branches of congress. They have taken the wise and rational attitude that the problem of spec- ulation is an administrative and not a legislative one. While the layman may be unduly optimistic on the subject of speculation and credit. his anxiety over what congress might do to the whole business and credit struc- ture, if it undertook to do by legislation what the fed- eral reserve board has been unable to do, is not unwar- ranted. A MOB CAUSES DISASTER Few things are more terrifying, or dangerous, than a mob of excited human beings who have temporarily lost their heads When several thousand people tried to hurry out of the bleachers in the Yankee stadium at New York the other day because of a sudden shower, they scem to have transformed themselves into such a mob. As a result, two people were trampled to death and 50 more were badly injured. Every individual in that mob, taken by himself, was doubtless a person of sufficient sense to realize the danger of trying to jam a big crowd through narrow passage- ways. But a moment's panic caused each individual to surrender his own judgment and move with the crowd. The result, as always, was disastrous. Editorial Comment | SIGNBOARDS ON HIGHWAYS (Atlanta Constitution) Roadside advertising signs are now either ‘ohibited or | severely restricted upon the public highways of forty- one of the forty-eight states of the union. The practice of erecting huge boardings close to the highways on which to advertise things for sale has grown so general and the billboards so large and obstructive as to excite vehement protests from the public in every state. Advertising is an enterprising and valuable incident of ccmmerce—useful alike to the advertiser and to the pur- chasing public. But even 80, the fact does not justify the usage of signboards that endanger traffic safety, clutter up the natural scenery and offend the peace of mind and esthetic taste of tke traveling millions who use the roads for communication and pleasure. There are so many other more economic and effective modern ways of advertising that this continued recourse to the old device of the early patent medicine makers can be prohibited without appreciable loss to advertisers or the public. With a rapidly growing regard among our people for highway cleanness and landscape loveliness, there will be no real harm done to commercial enterprise by the legal banishment of the signboards from all public highways. THOSE LOVELY CANDLES (Baltimore Sun) Nothing is so suitable as lighted candles on the table to provide an atmosphere of old world charm. Candles should be lit before the party enters the dining room, but frequently they are not. The host may remark, “Isn't it like her to forget?” To which the guests reply sympa- thetically, “Yes, ours always does, too.” The host then Proceeds to light the candles and extinguish the electric lights, unless they are very thoroughly shaded so that they do not give out much light anyway. The end of the match employed may now be left on the serving table or tossed into a dark corner. Of course, semi-darkness is rather bad if there is a fish course. On the other hand, it serves to conceal the black Grease spot on the white door leading to the kitchen and also makes it less apparent that the silver on the side- board was not polished last Wednesday as it should have been. Although there is a slight expense attached to keeping a supply of candles, this is more than compen- sated for by the fact that by the use of subdued light the old wall paper can be made to do for another year. If anything is to be carved, the candles will be in the way, but they can be consigned temporarily to the safe- keeping of the guests to the right and left of the carver. well-bred guests are prepared for this duty in addition to steadying the carving dish and the trivet on which it stands, as well as looking after the carver's glass of wa- ter. The carving finished, the candles may be put back in place until time for second helpings. The same pro- cedure may take place at the other end of the table, when the hostess begins to dish the dessert. Thus in an in- formal party of six every guest may feel that he has had an active share in the success of the evening. Ends of old candles should be kept handy in a kitchen drawer. They will prove invaluable on those occasions when the electric lights fail and leave you in the dark, wondering whether there has been a thunder storm in the neighborhood, or a belt has broken in the power house, or somebody has been caught in the machinery. ORDERLY CENTRAL EUROPE (New York Times) As a group of victors held together by the sole desire to maintain their gains the Little Entente has not always enjoyed the admiration of a world audience that had gone a bit sour on war spoils. Neither did Czecho- slovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia benefit by the gen- eral discontent with a Europe which was so vocal for some years after the armistice. If world opin- jon has softened toward the members of the Little En- tente, the reasons are several. In the first place, there has been a healthy reaction from the bitter resentments evoked by a series of peace treaties which failed to sup- ply 100 per cent self-determination. In satisfying the legitimate aspirations of the Czechs, southern Slavs and Rumenians for racial independence the treaties threw in perhaps a larger slice than was absolutely of Hungarian territory. But with time there has come broader recognition “of the fact that, after all, the break. up of the monarchy has resulted in KEEPING COOL Mechanical ventilation is one of the modern comforts ® 7 é Hapsburg cuctien, of political minorities in Central Europe per cent. As to the Balkanization of Europe, the years have served to emphasize one important fact. It is tral Europe is ndt so badly Balkanized as might first it. The chief and undeniable multiplicat of nationalities is the heightened peril out of diverse national ambitions. But so far z d i | | g ; i é i zg 5 ! i i i E E : EeERa ig Fg : iH Hi i i t ye 3 EE | : E i ast one state commission arrived at the conclusion that open-window ventilation is better suited to the school room. If there is a way to ventilate properly a school room or auditorium solely with the ald of win- dows, it has never been put into use, incomfortable ex- Adaptation of mechanical ventilation to the home would do much toward checking the so-called disinte- gration of the great American home. When the family swelters more at home than at the movies the phrase “all THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE After Seeing So Much of This Careless Littering cf Parks, Beaches, Ete—! SM, Mane, "I Milly |_| --DONT You OFTEN GET A STRONG URGE | |gpsT2. D0 A Bir OF IT YoURSELRY Mave g DAY... One woman is a member of Presi- dent Hoover's recently appointed commission for the study of prohibi- tion enforcement. She is Miss At Comstock, president of Radcliffe col- lege, and described as “one of the foremost students of sociology in the United States.” ** * NEED MORE It is hard to say whether the pres- ence of one woman on this committee is so surprising as that there are no more. Considering that recent statis- tics prove that women spend 90 per cent of all money spent in this coun- try, and considering that the prohi- bition question, either from the view- point ef enforcement or lack of en- forcement, effects national spending money as it effects no other realm of human activity, it needs more than one woman to balance the ten men on the commission. The men may know their law. But they do not tion, or its lack, as sae do. LJ “THE TALKIES” A Texas senator's attempt to add an amendment to the state barber bill to the effect that the license of any barber who talks too much shall be revoked, reminds “us girls” that the talkative barber isn’t confined to | male barber shops. If there's anything more talkative than a beauty shop operator. here's wondering just where it is. I know about six simmering red hot women’s fights brought about by the hair- dresser common to all of them who talked too much. “ *k * WHY IS IT? ‘There seems to be something about | the intimacy of beautifying the hu- man person that brings on gossip, and much of it. Still, I do love hear- ing my share, and if we hear it I suppose we must figure that we play leading roles in the story the next gal gets. Perhaps it's something about com- plete relaxation in the inclined beauty shop chair that makes us say so in- finitely much more ten we should. THEIR REAL know the human reaction to prohibi- | jfchool boy of Portland, Ore., shot | and killed 17-year-old Herbert Beem in @ quarrel over a high school girl, and then tried to kill himself. ; .And mystery still surrounds the | death of Walter Treadway Hunting- ton. Harvard student, found dead with a woman's lace-edged handker- chief and her footprints by his dead form. A diary a la Cassanova was found among his possessions. = & IT’S EVADED Day after day these youthful trage- dies are duplicated as youth is caught in the maelstrom of sex which it does not understand and for which it is not at all prepared. Meanwhile our school curricula are filled with science and math and languages and history, struggling with which youth pursues grades, while every fibre of its being is concerned with things infinitely more real and puzzling, to which school authorities give no keys. ‘When one attempts to do so he is figuratively or literally ridden out of town on a rail. a Hl BARBS | ° °o President Hoover didn't mention | prohibition when he delivered his charge to the new law enforcement commission. Funny that .no one | asked about it, either. ° * ok Mabel Walker Willebrandt resigned as assistant attorney general to sur- | Vey the national and state laws of the ‘air. It has been announced that } Mabel quit of her own accord, which, | Of course, dispels any suspicion that she really was given the air. = * | Balm and bomb are spelled differ- ‘ ently but often have the same effect. Hl ed | Ed Howe, the famous Atchison | (Kas.) editor, says newspapermen have become so powerful and clever that they are the real force and hope | of future worthy development. That ought to be worth a raise. * & * | The United States Treasury De- i partment the other day adjudged ob- scene a book by Voltaire. 170 years jafter its publication. Aha! Voltaire is discovered! ** * A Parisian editor says there would be better understandings if the aver- age American, traveling abroad, en- tered more into the life of the Euro- pean nations. The trouble is, Amer- jeans are so used to bathtubs. Service, Inc.) A WORKING MODEL (By, Alice Judson Peale) A child may not need to hitch his wagon to a star, but he does need real ideals. He needs to strive hopefully, confidently, for ends which he con- siders wholly fine and quite within reach. Perfection, remote and chilly, | is not for him; his must be a concrete, attainable goal. Not only does he require ideals, but also a working model—the embodi- ment of the things that he himself would be. For this working model he | !ns. turns naturally and inevitably toward his parent. The thought is perhaps ‘a trifle appalling. But it need not j be. We do not have to be perfect. In- deed, we serve our purpose better for our oo if we do not even pretend to be. When, with mistaken zeal, you im- press your child with your own per= favor. You make things . You jeven may develop in him a feeling of hopelessness and self condemnation, You may cause him to magnify his most natural faults into terrible sins. From such unhappy feelings either youthful rebellion against all | authority or sheer aimlessness devoid jof all ambition. The task of serving as a working | model for your child is not 80 very hard. To him you should appear ad- mirable, but not awe-inspiring. You need to be wise, but by no means om- nisclent. He should have reason to believe you just, but he should never fear to question your decision. He should know you to be kindly and well intentioned, but he should {never feel shamed by your more than human goodness. Your achievements should make him proud of you, but j they ought not to impress him so much that he despairs of ever mak- ing you proud of him. i } “A school principal is one ‘paid extra to refrain from too hard, so that when everyone about the place has gone fagged wild, his cool CmoN, GET Your i DowN To SEA LEVEL SENT TO YoU FRo! AGAIN, AN” DON'T BE Givide US THis Head WAITER CHILL Jun. “w BUSTER WAS TELLING US HE READ A LETTER LONDON ENGLAND, ADVISING YoU © Come OVER FoR TH SETTinle OF A RELATIVE’S Estate’ /s ~<" IS THAT So-HELP-me lose F Ado swuPID Je Wsiot, I Witt LeT DIRECT YOUR SKEPTI Gaze ON aN £ mM or HMF, —~ AND IF You 80 BANK DRAFT THAT WAS SENT ME FoR MY TRANSPoRTATION / —~> YES $1R,~ TO SETTLE THE ESTATE OF RUFUS HooPLe, ma HM-M~T WILL COME BACK A WEALTHY MAN Je Z eEcav.-as true Ss Nou ARE BoTH “TALL CHUMP LUCK, ~~ You'Re A BLACK SHEEP Hat GoT * FAT EATING FouR- LEAF CLOVER Js TH oN Breaks I GET Are wet MY SHOE LACES fe |Z You ICAL wh THE MEANING OF ACIDOSIS The blood of the human body must of the body against many diseases. ‘This can only be accomplished by eat- ing a large quantity of the alkaline- forming foods. Some acid-forming foods may be eaten and are in fact necessary, but they should be less abundant. When acidosis occurs from cating too much acid-forming food, we ob- serve a strongly acid urine, acid sweat, long time, even without knowing any- thing Roped the. chemistry of foods. think it wise to use too many scien- tific terms which may prove confus- In tomorrow's article I Will give my wean AND ANSWERS Question: 1. B. R. writes: “I am TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929 She Sast hey 70 . the digestive tract and for this reason ving on a mucusiess diet. Baby's Head Perspires Question: Mrs. F. W. W. writes: “My baby nine months old has for the manifests only at the head. Will you tell me if this is an indication of yrong and what measures I can take to overcome it?” Answer: You will understand that it is difficult for me to give you a defe inite statement without having the opportunity of examining your baby. Excessive perspiration of the head, if not due to the fact that the baby has on too much clothing or the remy tests okay. What is your opin- Answer: You have probably de- veloped an extreme sensitiveness to to possibly make changes in the formulas which you employ. | rggeenees reg Aiea Daniel W. La} from Fargo where she attended a * * “Your first duty in life is toward your aftereelf. So live that the man ought to bé may, in his time, be , bé Actual.”"—David Starr Jor- Fe < & 2 ¥e g E i 4 i * i Se i i i I 7 i : g 5 if i PR g | meeting of the Daughters of Isabella as a delegate from the Bismarck A A AM OB Lal iblic signed a treaty of Tripoli, and hi i 2 g Fra rl é i E i | 2 a g » i Hn H BS i A a [ id i i Z| g i i S zg i & i i 5 3 5 3 s = 3 ‘Women quite often © returned today what they think tele vals it plain iN i t ‘Ss r « f\\