The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 4

PAGE.FOUR et tn we ethane ime ow THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE RR ae Te The Bismarck Tribune ‘Ap ladéependent Newspuper THE STAITS OLDES] NEWSPAPER (Establishea '673) Published by the Bismarck [ribune Company bis- faarck, N D.. and entereo at the oustoffice st Bismarck mail, ip state, per year .... ‘Weekly by mail. tn state. three years for . ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, Member Avdit Bareav of Circulation Mendes of The Associated tress ‘The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication of al) news dispatches crediteo to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper: and alse the loca! news 0: spontaneous origin pubi'sle herein All rights +f republication of all other matter herein are alse reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LUGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO Tower Bldg. Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coen’y Newspaprr) DETROI1 DANDELION SYMBOL OF MEANNESS Here's another way to be a good citizen. Clear the lawn | of dandelions. There's another reason than merely having @ lawn all grass and no weeds. It is that dandelions on one prop- erty are a menace to neighbors’ lawns. Many western cities are in a worse condition than Bis- marck in regard to the presence of dandelions. The weed ‘was not kept down earlier. It thrived under this tolera- ; tion and now these neglectful communities are afflicted with the pest and beautiful lawns have been so ruined that plowing has had to be resorted to {o turn under the unsightliness that took the place of velvety greenness. The same conditions can happen here in the course of @ few years, There are lawns of real loveliness about the city which are flanked by the neglected type, where hordes of the yellow-topped weed flourish. Inevitably the seed of these will be blown or drift over to the neigh- ‘bors and then, to save the well-kept lawn it will be nec- essary to indulge in some back-breaking labor or suffer ; the penalty of losing all the beautification attained at the cost of so much care and weary work. The person who allows weeds on his grounds to jeopard- ize the beauty of his neighbors’ homes is not a good neighbor. He is not a real citizen. ‘These thoughts are aroused by a communication from @ woman resident who is interested in preserving one of these fine lawns. “My husband and myself and children,” she writes, “have labored three years, trying to exter- minate the big crop (dandelions) we found here, and each year we have seen them: diminishing. This year there are very few and we work each morning at them, so that the blooms do not sced. “Our neighbor has scoffed at us all along, saying, ‘It does no good.’ This past week he informed us that they decided to let them (the dandelions) go to seed, to sec if that would help matters. Can you imagine how we} are squirming?” ‘The woman who wrote this letter is suftering reai tor- ture. There are others like her in the city. A walk around the town will reveal the same sort of conditions @s those of which she complains. The people of the immaculate lawns have the kind of pride that goes into the making of a fine city. How sad that others so lack tits spirit that they are willing to destroy the beauty that others strive to create and continue. There should be an i:nplied item in each resident's pro- gram for the common welfare of Bismarck each year. It should be to keep his or her premises free from pest breeding. Might as well toss your garbage over on the neighbor's lawn as to seed it with dandelions. SUBSIDIZED AMATEURISM Public interest in sports being what it is, the expulsion of the University of Iowa from the Western conference 4s a “big story” everywhere; but there are implications in the thing that go far beyond the circle of football and make the whole affair an illuminating commentary on American life. ‘The outline of the case, of course, is familiar to every- one. Iowa is accused of subsidizing its star athletes, pay- ing them money to keep them in school. The taxpayers of the great corn belt empire, apparently, have been help- ing to provide their university with winning football teams, much as an independent nation pays out its money to maintain a standing army. Nobody in America, probably, is shocked by the af- fair. The sensation lies in the fact that Iowa was dropped bby the conference, not in the fact that Iowa paid money | to its athletes. That part of it won't cause anyone to lift fn eyebrow. We are altogether too used to the subsidiz- | ing of “amateur” athletes; it is one of those delightful things about which nobody talks but about which every- body knows. But the rumpus is worth thinking about, just the same. ‘It ilustrates perfectly the hazy, illogical way in which we confuse amateurism and professionalism in athletics generally. And our confusion there, in turn, is an illum- inating side-light on our national character. We confuse amateurism and professionalism for the simple reason that we are a nation of professionals. Amateurism is foreign to us. We don't see anything illogical in a college paying brawny youths to enter its Portals, because we are thoroughly committed to the doc- trine that the end generally justifies the means. We are out for success at any price; and since athletic prestige 4s @ desirable thing for an educational institution to pos- sess, why should not the young men who provide that Prestige get paid for doing it? ‘The amateur is a man who devotes his spare time to some game or hobby for the sheer love of it, without any though of the reward; and we aren't that way about anything. We don’t have any spare time, for one thing; ‘nd we refuse to spend our energies on anything that THE CHILD WITH BAD EYES The importance of providing proper educational facil- ities for children with defective vision is stressed in a re- cent statement by Mrs. Winnifred Hathaway, associate director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindhess, who points out that many a child suffers great injustice in school simply because nobody realizes that he has weak eyes. “Educators have found,” she remarks, “that many chil- dren who had been accounted stupid, sullen, morose, mentally sub-normal and even criminal, displayed excel- lent intelligence and pleasing dispositions as soon as their defective vision was recognized and they were placed in sight-saving classes. The necessity for some children to take the same work. over again, a serious educational waste, Is frequently traced to eye difficulties.” Aside from the great host of children whose troubles can be ended by the provision of glasses, Mrs. Hathaway estimates that there are at lest 60,000 school children in the nation who need to be educated in special sight- saving classes. At present, she says, there are not enough classes of that kind to accommodate a tenth of the tumber. Here is a matter for educators to give serious consider- ation. DISREGARDING THEIR SAFETY The department of commerce requires all men who would get licenses as commercial airplane pilots to take extremely strict medical examinations. The doctors who give these tests, it seems, have to be constantly on their guard. Scores of men, who know they are not physically qualified. try to hoodwink them and get passing marks that they do not deserve. Few, if any, succeed; yet the doctors have to be exceedingly vigilant. ‘This represents a rather queer quirk in human nature. The strict physical examination is as much a safeguard for the pilot himself as for anyone else. If a man isn't properly equipped physically he can't fly in saie' Yet many men disregard this and try to become oilots an} how. They seem to overlook the fact t by doing so | they are simply jeopardizing their o REFORMED BY A MOVIE You often hear that the movies, by ci tivities of bandits, lead impressionable crime. Maybe they do and maybe they dont; anyhow one little item for the other side of the ledger. In Halifax, N. &. the other day, a young man sat watching a movie. It showed the virtuous hero trium- phant and the wicked villain going to a felon’s cell. When it was over the young man go up. walked around unde- cidedly for a few miinutes—and then went to a police station, explained that he had stolen $300 from his em- Ployer, and said that he wanted to take his medicine. One time, at any rate, the movies effected a reform- ation! ng the ace | ng men into here's LET LINDBERGH ALONE We're glad that Lindy and his bride managed to slip away from everybody, for the first part of their honey- moon at least. Newspaper reporters and photographers are, in the main, estimable chaps; yet no young man vents to take @ gang o: them along when he goes honcymooning. Lindy’s eagerness to shake them is quite understandable | —and, for all that he is still the most interesting young | man in the country, we're glad Ie succceded. After all, the young aviator has been in the public eye for two solid years now. It's time he had some privacy. Let's let him completely alone for a while. We owe it to him—now, above all times. The quickest way to straighten bowlegs is to go out rid- ing with three in a flivver coupe. | Editorial Comment | A MUSICAL CRITICISM «Duluth Herald) The town council of Largs, in Ayrshire, Scotland, has adopted a rule that there shall be no more playing of bagpipes at its beach. The councilmen said they had nothing against the pipes or the pipers, but that the notes of their instru- ments, added to the noise of motor traffic, “produced a conglomeration of jarring sounds.” Hence, no more pipes at the beach. may play there. Probably the Scots would allow nobody who is not Scot- tish to make any such remark as that about the bag- Pipe. Probably if anybody in Scotland said that it does not need the addition of the noise of motor traffic to make the bagpipe’s music “a conglomeration of jarring sounds” he would be mobbed. Probably if anybody in Scotland—or in Woodland, either—should say that let- ting brass bands play at the beach and forbidding bag- pipes is in itself a scathing criticism of Scotland's na- tional music, it would make him unpopular there. So very likely it is wise to let the incident go as it stands, without comment. A BID FOR DISARMAMENT «St. Paul Dispatch) For his Memorial day address President Hoover appro- priately chose the subject of peace. The speech is note- worthy because the president did not confine himself to the usual platitudes and empty generalizations, but took occasion to make a new and concrete overture for the limitation of navies by treaty agreement. What is equally important, he made it clear that the United States is not using naval limitation as a smoke screen of apparent good intentions behind which to al- low militarism to continue unabated. At the Geneva con- ference, where in 1927 the powers failed to reach agrec- ment on cruisers and other smailcr fighting craft. it was Proposed by Great Britain to put the number of per- mitted cruisers so high as to make a farce of the whole Proceeding. President Hoover scrves notice that “Limita- tion upward is not our goal, but actual reduction of ex- isting commitments to lowered level Any treaty that But brass bands resulted in navies just as large or even larger than thosc | now existing would be a travesty on disarmament. Here is a test of the sincerity of the world powers which solemnly put their names to the recent treaties renouncing war, an opportunity to puft those idealistic sentiments into practical expression, It remains to be seen whether President Hoover's overiure is heard. . A VICTORY OF PEACE (Minneapolis Journal) Whatever the meaning of Thursday's parliamentary election may be to Great Britain, there is @ rosy side to it for this country. The Baldwin government, which fell with a resounding smash as the returns came in, was dosen't bring some definite and tangible kind of re- ward. ‘This is very likely quite deplorable, but it can't be For this spirit of professionalism, which pervades every part of American life, is the thing that has built nes all of ou: railroads and factories and tall buildings and has given us the prosperity that we like to talk about so ‘We are professionals by nature. We have to be, be- €ause we have so much work to do. The business of pay- erate te 0? 1 college Is Jus: cme angie of takes a wise man to make a success of letting well resposnible for the obdurate British attitude on the ques- tion of limiting naval armaments. The stand of the Conservative party on this question was a major issue in the campaign, and the result may. be taken as a rebuke from the British electorate. The way now is open and the cutlook excellent for successful conversations on this subject. The Labor party, which appears to have elected very close to a majority of the new parliament, and which doubtless will dominate the new t, 1s committed to armamen . reduction. Its form also has opposed the traditional British insist- on the right of blockade, for , the the i rie small Liberal contingent, which seems genes of power, is strong for armament on ver, plan. ld polities have seen much danger of the world in the British deter- the seas. The possibilities of a great English-speaking nations on discussed and alarms sounded. ce policies than they American point ot resent on German en WE CAN BUY A FEW , MORE DISHES AWD WELL ff HAVE ENOUGH STVEF ‘To. START HOUSEKEEPING! VV ANOTHER REASON HES “LUCKY LINDY LUNDY, DEAR. DONT FORGET YouR PARACHUTE --- AND REMEMBER | WANT “TO KNOW Your! DESTINATION! And May They Live Happily Ever After! 7 “TROPHIES, 7 DECORATIONS- ETC, Aw. -FoR’A NiGI THEY DIDNT HAVE, ‘FRESH ONES hig | ——. Some travel bureau has sent out a self-contained and courteous but none the less firm letter to the various as- sociated restaurant and lunch room keepers of Europe, exhorting them to have some consideration for the rres* amalgamated stomach of the half million or so American tourisis youu to be in the old world this summer. The travel bureau points out that Americans in Europe have great gas- tronomic difficulties; that they miss the balanced menus to which science at home has accustomed them, and that the dainties which are set before them at Europe's table are unpalat- able and health destroying. * * # THERE'LL BE KICKS it is too carly to get Europe's own tion and request. But any number of papers and magazines of our own have commented on the matter to no little extent. “Outrageously discoutteous and pre- run that it is especially presumptuous for a country which knows little or nothing about the high art of cooking to presume to offer gratuitous advice to a country which has raised cook- ing to an art comparable with that of Michaelangelo or Beethoven. Granted that such gratuitous ad- vice may not be the most tactful thing in the world, and that it does little to promote this international good will of which we hear so much, I am not so utterly convinced that as the travel bureau sent out. The point is that there is a bic difference between palatable and de- licious cooking and in food which is good for us. We Americans of the present are saturated with propaganda exiorting us to look to our vitar cal- cium and fresh fruit juices and cal- ories and be sure that we don't take two starches or teo many proteins. Whether the meals we may eat when our health is duly considered are pleasureable or not, is nobody's concern. xk * NOT DUTY-BOUND But our friends across the sca have not reached that stage where ticy | regard cating as a duty for health’s ather (ian a pastime. When a Prench chef grills a broiler in butter, fMmishing it with a pure cream sauce stuffed with mushrooms, or when he lights his little alcohol Jemp under a chafing dish of crepes Suzette browning and brewing in brandy and sherry and powdered sugar, he is not concerned so much with the welfare of his diner’s stom- achs as with the ohs and ahs of real pleasure with which they will lick their chops over his food. salads and light sandwich lunches to say nothing of real breakfasts with cereal and cream in the coffee and even a platter of bacon and eggs, are apt to look askance upon a dinner of all-butter-cooked meats and vege- tables, or sigh for a real American breakfast, though in this respect, | whether for that reason or not, per- haps the continentals have the more healthful slant. We are told, too, that hot breads aren't good for us, but we continue demanding gur pancakes waiiles for breakfast. outraged flare-back at this accusa- sumptuous” is the leading phrase, And j walk into any farmer's yard on a any number of editorial comments {dark night to try to get him to pull Oe i BARBS | te ° | There are 7,000,000 dogs in the | United States. If you don’t believe it, ‘ your car out of a mudhole. ! xk * | Gangsters are born, not made, sa {ech ; body can be en Al Capone. \ xe * The next war will be carried on by radio, says a London scientist. Guess that's what they're practicing for every night now, * ok Oe ' Ccast guards fired on a banana 'boat the other day. ed to get a skinful. xk * More than 729 gallons of contra-! band alcohol disappeared from ii ! storage place in Kansas City recently. ' And its storage place was right in the police station, too. That's funny! H x ke Thomas Edison says we do not know j one-millionth cf one per cent about anything. He must have been watch- ing somebody trying to adjust his brakes. «Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Among the gypsies, children born on Christmas day are said to have the “He BAHAMAS! But we who are trained to our| fish and a lot of plants and snails. BANANAS AT THE. = GROCERS, SO IM GOING TO SEE IF ( CANT GET Some Ww FLEETING INTEREST (By Alice Judson Pealc) “Mary begged and begged me to give her an aquarium, and I did. I got her a fine one with three gold- She has only had it a month and she has lost interest in it already. She never looks at it any more. She even forgets to feed the poor things. I've told her that the next time she asks me for anything like that she can whistle for it!” Why on carth should Mary stay in- terested in an aquarium with three goldfish and some snails? We all get tired of things after the newness has worn off, after we have discovered everything there is to discover. It is no use expecting Mary to take care of her goldfish from a high sense of moral obligation and gratitude. Chil- dren simply aren’t made that way. It is possible, however, to make some cnterprises more vital to begin j with, more lasting and more genu- ine while they last. If you start a child on an undertaking to which he must make his own contributions all long the line, his interest will be «more than a flecting one. Don't for instance, present him a finished and perfect aquarium. Let + him put in his own water-plants and | work out for himself the balance of plant and animal life. Suggest that he get the kind of snails which will lay eggs in the aquarium or the sort which will delight him by producing live-born young. Let him get the type of pollywog Probably they; which will turn into a frog in a few there is no need for such a request | wondered how all those bananas man-} months. Encourage him to make his ;own excursions to the country to bring back little pond snails, plants and insect larvae, all of which will grow in his silent little water world, A child’s interest is held only by an enterprise which constantly is growing and constantly devcloping new phases. As soon as it ceases to do this he will j Grop it in fayor of a new enthusiasm. SATISFIED There goes a fellow who chased j around for years trying to land a po- litical job.” “Well, what does he do now?” power of divination and ability to avert the “evil eye.” lothing—he got the job."—Tit- CERTAINLY MISS You ~TM SAILING WA WELL, NEIGHBOR BAXTER, — TUL — YAS ~~ AHEM~ KAFF- kAFFE UWL FoR ENGLAND / ~~ THiS SUMMER ,~ FEW WEEKS GOT AN URGENT TRIP LETTER To Go OVER FoR THE SETTLE - <Quite A BIT OF MAN f Yas — MENT oF my UNcLE’s ESTATE Im “MONEY AND PROPERTY INVOLVED, wa AND No DouBT I witt RETURN A WEALTHY BUT IT Woll'T TURN MY HEAD, BAXTER, - ! hue “WOLF” So LoNG, Now THEY wot BELIEVE THE TRUTH = 1. & PAT. owe, IS AT So? > ~ WELL. THAT'LL MAKE A NICE | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern if -WoNDER WHAT THAT ov FATHEAD TAKES ME FoR? ~ Tord ME TH’ SAME LINE LAST : YEAR! ONE OF THese pavs 1m > GoG To open UP AN’ LET HiM HAVE BoTH BaRRELS ON WHAT I THINK OF Him f TH? OL” Brew vat! THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 Adenoids are a common affection of children between the ages of five and ten years. At least ten per cent of measures. However, before an anes- thetic is considered, the thymus gland Dr. McCoy will gladly answer Personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the ‘Tribune. ‘ envelope for reply. should also be examined, for if it is too large, death may occur during an anesthetic. An enlarged thymus is frequently found with adenoids. ing the treatment with the fast increase the breathing capacity by systematic exercise. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Suffers With Limbs Question: Mrs. P. writes: “I am 53 years old and am suffering with what the doctors call drying out of the cartilages, and gives me no hope to get better or even find relief. I get around only with the aid of a cane. Will you please tell me wheth- ply | er there is anything I can do?” quently affecting the chest of the mouth breather who has adenoids. ‘There are two ways in which the when these Answer: This drying out of the cartilage, as your doctor supposes your trouble to be, is probably due to some chronic irritation from toxemia and there is no better method for eliminating this from the body than the fasting regime, instructions for which I will be glad to send you. Hot applications over the affected joints would also be helpful. Popcorn Question: Mrs. W. M. asks: “What of} do you think of popcorn as a food, the inflammation may spread to the inner ear and cause Boopctied ‘The causing the teeth of the upper jaw to stick out. And the roof of the mouth becomes narrow and highly arched. Often the teeth do not meet together properly. ‘The treatment for adenoids should not be delayed once the discovery is made, as they not only endanger the child’s health but may lead to almost incurable malformations of the jaws, palate, nose and face. An examina- tion for adenoids should be made whenever the child shows any symp- toms, such as mouth breathing, deaf- ness, stupid expression, disturbed sleep, muffled voice, or frequent colds. In most cases the large adenoids can be reduced to normal by short fruit fasts followed by a non-starchy 2e ZA AS SSS NATHAN HALE Today is the birthday of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary hero who gained immortality at the age of 21 by going to his death with this state- ment on his lips: “I only regret that T have but one life to lose for. my country.” Hale was born on June 6, 1755, and executed September 22, 1 ‘When less than 16, he entered Yale college and graduated with honors at the age of 18 For two years he taught school, but at the outbreak of the Revolution joined the army at Boston was made a captain. His capture and execution at the hands of the British followed an at- tempt to spy on the English after the American army had been defeated in the battle of Long Island, when Wi was undecided his army was being surrounded or whether the British intended to fol- low up their victory with a direct at- According to tradition, the young Patriot was betrayed by his own cous- in. If his identity had been kept secret another hour, his plan and with what other foods should it be eaten?” Answer: Popcorn is a form of starch which is easily digested when it is cooked in the usual way, that is, by heating the popcorn till it pops open, splitting the kernel and exploding the starch cells. It should be used as the principal starch of any meal, and may be seasoned with butter and salt. Use it with the non-starches, but not pro- tein. Falling Hair Question: P. F. writes: “I am 23 years old, general health fairly good. and I use an abundance. of fresh fruits and vegetables; I have no scalp disease, such as dandruff, but my hair is coming out very fast, having al- ready one small bald spo. What is your advice?” Answer: If the loss of your hair is not due to some glandular deficiency you should be able to prevent further loss by a daily massage of the scalp to increase the circulation. Ultra- stead light treatments are also help- (Copyright, 1929, by the Bell 6yndi- cate, Inc.) 15,000, had been mailed out when the motor vehicle registration depart ment closed for the day yesterday. “It was the bureaucrats who exiled me, people who have got the power into their hands and converted them- selves into bureaucratic caste bound together by a solidarity of privilege.” Leon Trotzky. (The Nation.) se % “If the new age finds new physica, powers, it will find also hitherto un- dreamed of energies in men’s minds and hearts, able to produce a phil- osophy of life which will enable man to achieve inner happiness even amidst such a high-pressure ” —Francis R. Bellamy. (Outlook.) ** * “Although there are no more farm- ers in the United States now than day, as shown by the index of agri- cultural productivity, have an output, 47 per cent larger than at the begin- a