The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 4

TA ie Bismarck Tribune Ap (néependent Newsprper THE STAiErS OLD§S1 NEWSPAPER (Established '873) ty the Bismarck Tribine Company si entered at the postotiice xt Bismarcs matter. sccceeees Presideat and eublisner Opinion of the natives) mispronounced, by the an- nouncers, ‘Thus is there discovered another way in which the radio can be made to serve humanity. If the listening public had the assurance that radio pronunciations were always authentic the reformation would be speedy. Al- ready millions, under the influence of the radio, have learned to pronounce many proper names differently if not correctly. THE CRIME OF STUPIDITY Eighty feet under the surface of the Hackensack river, in New Jersey, a dozen men were working in a high-pres- sure caisson laying the foundations for a bridge. : Something went wrong with the machinery and the air pressure went down. The men had known when they went to work that there might be trouble. The men they 50 | had relieved told them that a valve somewhere was leak- Uress te exclusively entitied to the use ) Mews dispatchas crediteo to it taneous origin pubi'sie herein tion of all other matter herein Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN io Ne CHICAGO DETROI1 Tower Bldg. Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) IN TRIBUTE TO OUR DEAD ‘With Memorial day rapidly receding into the back- ground, the air once more is filled with a repetition of the suggestions that always follow this holiday—suggestions } that it be abolished altogether because of the way it is + misused. ‘These suggestions do not come from pacifists or anti- ‘war organizations. They are made by people who have ! @ devout and militant patriotism—people who are dis- ~ heartened because the day that is set aside for a tribute to our dead soldiers is turned into a rollicking holiday, its original purpose quite buried bencath a nation-wide string of picnics, joy-rides, baseball games and excursion trips. Every city has its Memorial day parade. But these parades are not the events they used to be. They do not _ attract the crowds they used to get. Most of us, on May 30, are seeking recreation. Paying homage to the dead breaks into the day too much for us; instead of going down to see the parades we head for the. open country and an all-day outing. So a good many people are offended, and the period immediately after Memorial day always finds these peo- “ple urging that the day be abolished altogether. ‘There is a good deal to be said for this view. Yet, when you stop to think about it, our way of observing Mem- orial day may really be as high a tribute to our soldier dead as we could possibly pay. ‘We honor their memory by forgetting them and going out to enjoy a carefree holiday—and in no other way could we make it so evident that the things for which our soldiers gave their lives have been justified by the course of events. ‘The soldiers who fought in our various wars had, some- times, only the vaguest notions as to what the fighting ‘was all about; but each one, in more or less confused manner, felt that he was fighting to make his country a better, safer, happier place to live in. That hope—the inarticulate feeling that life was not so hard to surrender if the transaction made things better for the people at home—has sustained American soldiers on fields all the way from Bull Run to the Meuse-Argonne. And our way of observing Memorial day proves that that hope has been fulfilled. ‘We are very much at peace, very busy, very prosperous, and very contented; and so, on Memorial day, we make @ holiday, forget the echoes of old wars, and go out to enjoy ourselves. And that, perhaps, is just exactly what the lost legions would want us to do. By doing it we prove that we have at least some of the things that these men died to give us. _ Our tribute is an unconscious one. Yet, for that very reason, it is a good one. The men who sleep in the beflagged, flower-strewn graves can rest content. OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS Eastern Montana and western North Dakota are a re- gional area whose geographical entity is in no way severed by the fiction of a boundary linc marking off the ‘two states from each other. In products, topography and People they are very much the same. The route of the Northern Pacific railroad binds their communities still closer together into a western plains family based on natural factors in spite of political separation. . ‘The sympathies of this state, therefore, go out to the stricken city of Wibaux, eastern outpost of Montana. This sympathy already is being shown by the North Dakota communities on the edge of the storm area of H Jast Friday morning's cloudburst disaster and tragedy, in |} going’to the aid of the washed-out town and its flood ; Tefugees, Wibaux is a neighbor, and neighborly hands ‘are extended in its hour of suffering, loss and need. A heavy blow has fallen on the town, but time and grit + ‘will efface the damage and Wibaux will go on to new me ee The disaster, after all, is not in any way a local or climatic disqualification for the community. It is just nother infliction of nature's intermittent fury when its forces break bounds and run amuck. The whole world thas. been suffering from a series of unparalleled and ‘@rratic weather afflictions, besides which the Wibaux ~-eouldburst is of mere local seriousness. Others may be -empected in various places and parts. Last winter it was Burope that suffered worst, with its abnormal subzero “cold and ice and snows which cost so much suffering and go many lives. There have been severe drouths in some parts and destructive precipitation in others. ‘The thing to do ts to carry on when one of these af- Mictions falls on a community. Wibaux can be expected te do that and if there is any need to assist along we n North Dakota neighbors can be relied on to prove the poetic virtues claimed for “out where the west are fact as well as sentiments. RADIO AND PRONUNCIATION dy of English proper names hes convinced many “Wnglish-speaking peoples are subtle spellers and pronouncers. Substantiation is everywhere. ie Los Angeles Times for years has printed this les- : , its editorial page: “Los Angeles But the natives and visitors ing, betraying itself by a soft, insistent sizzling sound. So the men worked with a dull foreboding of disaster. Presently the disaster came. The air pressure got too low. Into the caisson poured tons of soft, gummy mud and silt from the river bottom, trapping the workers hor- ribly. Hours later relief workers got to them. Six were dead, and five more had to be taken to hospitals. Now three or four investigations are under way to discover why it all happened. Little stories like that aren't uncommon these days. We can't do anything, from building a bridge to laying a water mafh, without calling a lot of complicated and ex- pensive machinery into play; and nearly always that ma- chinery is of a kind that can bring disaster if anything goes wrong. That, probably, is the inevitable penalty we pay for having such an intricate civilization. We are forever in- venting machines to help us !n our work, but unfortunate- ly we are not always quite up to our inventions, When- ever a machine passes into the control of a man who is careless, inattentive or stupid, there is apt to be trouble. In the old days a man had to have a certain amount of malice in order to let loose a catastrophe on his fellows. Now he can do far more damage simply by being negli- gent. Carelessness can be the greatest crime in this era of machinery. All of this, of course, is just another way of saying that we have not yet got the training, the experience or the general knowledge to handle our machines properly. En- gineers have a way of speaking of “man power failure” in explaining accidents. The phrase is significant. We fail our machines oftener than our machines fail us. And this, in turn, means that stupidity and incompe- tence are the greatest perils that we can possibly face. Nothing els: can do us so much harm. ‘The age of machinery has brought and is bringing in- calculable benefits. In a dozen ways it is setting us frec. It is making possible the dawning of a new era. But we haven't quite mastered it yet. If we don't suc- ceed in doing so, it may turn out to be a fearful curse in- stead of a blessing. FINDING OUT ABOUT STEEL The first steel skyscraper ever built is now being torn down in Chicago. Put up in 1687, it is now out of date, and is being removed so that a bigger structure can take its place. Experts from the American Institute of Steel Construc- tion are watching the demolition with great interest. For years there has been considerable discussion about the way the building’s steel framework will endure the changes wrought by passing years. Some experts have thought one thing, some another; no one has been quite certain. Now, however, they are going to get a chance to find out. Stecl from this pioneer skyscraper will be put THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. ‘ to their home heaths to tell audiences what a gold digging parasite the American wife is. It’s just the old story of thinking the whole world is just what that lit- tle arc of it seen from where one sits is. aun celebrities are ne enter- Inet homes where the “home ALLENE SUMNER, maker” ‘carried in water from the For the first time more than twenty | Well, and his dinner is lit with crystal million American women will find | candelabra and not kerosene lamps. themselves listed in the U. 8. census.{ But the women of the kerosene Report has it that the 1930 census will | amps are there—ten hundred thou- list “the home-makers” of the coun- | Sand strong, waiting for life to be try as tl “persons of occupation,” some- | made as simple for them as for the hing which has never been done be- | City woman who presses buttons, and fore. lo the same work i#done which her Report also,says that only those | sister of the far-flung places does to “home urday makers” who work for no Sat-|the tune of aching back and short- night pay envelope will be in- | ened hours. cluded, with special emphasis on the ct th: at those benighted females who | @ work outside the home for hire and || BARBS also attempt to run a house will not | @— o be inch ded in t us, : aoe Of course it was perfeet{y all right WHAT DOES IT MEAN? for Colonel Lindbergh to get married, While it seems only sensible to in- but he certainly did disappoint about 10,000,000 loyal “ra aaa clude “home makers” as persons of as occupat hasn't written laws which forbade women to | Mussolini will have to speak to that through all kinds of tests, so that the experts can tell| speak in public places or vote, it is| mountain yet. definitely just what, if anything, has happened to it.| difficult to see that the inclusion of ition, and while the fact that it been done before savors of un-| Vesuvius has been erupting again. eee The new knowledge thus gained will prove of great value | “home makers” in the official census} 4 Massachusetts professor advises is going to mean much or anything, to | graduates to “be a snob and marry the cprirekegt al —. ronnie aie is ‘the boss’ daughter instead of a sten- more in ewer of wood and car-' ographer; dress, speak and act like a} E, : eens jake nig { gentleman, and you'll be surprised at ! eee him an ‘or the same organization, the Gen- i alibis. ores [the amount of murder you can get If you are convi your child in future steel construction work, GOOD NEWS FOR ANGLERS American anglers will be gratified to know that the vier of eral Federation of Women's clubs, awey with.” And whom did the pro- departments of the interior and commerce have made} which moved Uncle Sam finally to fessor marry? an agreement whereby a fish culturist from the latter | deign to accede that “home makers” are “persons of occupation,” is the department will see to it that the streams and lakes | of our national parks are kept full of fish. In most parks the fishing is good enough already. But | home equipment, and discovered that the presence of the government expert means that it|by far the majority of housekecpers will stay that way. Streams and lakes will no be allowed |!" this country were sweeping with to become depleted. In some cases new varieties of fish can be introduced; in others, the stocks that are already | heating the Saturday night bath wa- ter, and, in short, carrying on in a‘! They're fussing around about repar- modern world with utterly archiac ; ations, congress is trying to relieve Present will be increased. All in all, it looks pretty nice for the angler. The great sport of fishing is going to be preserved—as far as our national parks go, anyway. If you are old enough to remember the man’s shirt world is getting better. Another reason why girls leave home is because it’s lonely there with the boys and the old folks gadding A NEW RUBBER TRICK about. (Lincoln Journal) The production of reclaimed rubber is a growing busi- ness in this country. Old rubber, worn tires and other rubber goods, are put through a reclaiming process and utilized in the manufacture of other rubber articles. Last year a total of more than 40,000,000 pounds of this 1°2- claimed material was produced in this country, more than half of which was exported. At the same time the pro- duction of this product has grown in other countries. The industry made a remarkable growth in four years. In 1924 exports of scrap and reclaimed rubber were sligntly more than 6,000,000 pounds from all countries. Exports in 1928 were something like five times this fig- ure. At the same time the production for home con- sumption has increased at an equally rapid rate. The chief reason for the growth of the industry was the price of rubber under the Stephenson act. This attempt to boost the price of an article which is in almost universal demand not only resulted in the expansion of the pro- duction of crude rubber by countries other than England to the extent that the effect of the act was nullified and had to be repealed, but it also stimulated the industry which is now converting a waste product into useful ar- ticles on a large scale. BEETLES AT WHITE HOUSE (New York Times) ‘The impotence ef the American government, has rarely been more clearly illustrated than in the failure of the departments ef agriculture, war and state to preserve the house grounds from the devastating onélaught of Editorial Comment é an invading army of Japanese beetles. The department of agriculture some time ago an- that ene of the few known means of checking the Japanese bettles was to plant geraniums. The ani- mals feed on these plants voraciously. and then become paralyzed and die. But apparenutly the white house gardener was unwilling to encircle the white house with a same complet * * organization which recently | ted a survey of the nation’s nounced he will oppose Senator Heflin in the Democratic primarics next ‘year. Trying to spoil all our fun? A Birmingham lawyer has an- |‘ | Now David, Be Reasonable! | 58 g (By Alice Judson Peale) “My boy doesn’t want to go back to school next year. He'd rather finish ® tutor. And so I said, ‘that’s all right with me, son, but how are we to sure that we can pick a really good ‘utor? It all depends on him you see. If he’s no good, you fail. But the de- you give him a complete alibi. If success in lessons, at school or anywhere else, depended entirely on the excellence of the teacher there any field were never yet found as thick as blackberries in June. If your child assumes that his suc- he wi is able to make his own decisions then Jet him do so on the basis of a def- re:ponsibility for tl tively his. If, for instance, ee no good then the child brooms. carrying water from an out-|, Flighty people don't make good that it is up to him to door well, filling kerosene lamps, flyers. harder. : s* * We love our children so protectively tools. Call them plain garden variety “house- | saddening the hearts of hundreds of keepers,” list them in a census or | girls, aviators are fighting for new deny that their work is important ; cndurance records, but the burning is- enough to list, the fact remains that | sue seems to be: what in the world that buttoned up the back, you cannot doubt that the] these hitherto persons of “no occupa- : tion” have the hardest, drabbest; most | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) thankless job known to man. ** * PARADISE FOR WOMEN? He: Why did Marie marry such an Meanwhile, such voices as that of | old fossil? inclair Lewis continue to jabber that; She: She had to have something America is a paradise for women, and} to go with her antique furniture. — visiting authors and lecturers return | Life, | the farmers, beauty contests here and them “home makers” or call | there are gladdening the hearts and can we do for the baby’s rash? COMPLETE ENSEMBLE that it is hard to put thi them in just this way. ready to furnish them with e: which life never will solve them of responsibilit life never will. closing $25'—and do not Moustique, Charleroi. “Oh, T have a trick for making my mn write.” “What is it?” ‘I just write and say: ‘I am en> enclose it.’ TA WED "HOSE ARE MY GZ ~Nod won't Neeo PASSPORT PICTURES THAT A PASSPoRT WITH I HAD TAKEN topray /. Ze THIS PictURE / BoTH oF THEM WILL 4» ONE LOOK AT IT, BE SENT To THE AN’ TH’ DEPARTMENT OF STATE GoveRNUmeNT WITH AN APPLICATION 4 wiILL-DEPoRT You FoR A PAssPorT /~— Bo. WHEW ~ WHAT A ~OF COURSE THE PHoTOS NoSE ,~ Looks Are Not ART POSED Like You're IW PORTRAITS, w~ BUT . BACK OF A As SEVERE, AS “THEY BASKETBALL / ARE, THEY PoRTRAY ME AS A MAN OF DIGNITY AND EX INTELLIGENCE, eH? | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | FRIGHTENED ABouT 7... YouR HAIR IS STANDING UP Like You HAD THis SHoT Taken ThHeal? TH’ KEYHOLE oF A SpEAKEAsY AVOIDING TETANUS i letters come to i i : E & Faye sane Fa advice about the treatment lockjaw. Unfortunately, me too tle chance of help- us has fully informed that 18, It is undoubtedly true that the bacillus is often found without the disease of tetanus or lockjaw develop- Very little change in the appearance takes place in the tissues from cur under one year of age, 50 __ MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929 ess ing under the skin, then Ce EEaEEEEEEEEEEEee on ise addressed to him, onte of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped eddressed envelope for reply. real red. By touching anything cold my fingers get blue and numb. Would like to find a cure, as I have to work for a living.” Answer—Possibly you are having some kind of functional heart trouble. Your physician should be able to tell you whether my guess is correct. Send for my special articles on heart de- rangéments and poor circulation. Eczema Queéstion—J. O. H. writes: “I am 50 years old and have had eczema for twelve years. Will you kindly name the foods I should use? Is there a sanitarium that you would advise for & few weeks or longer if satisfactory?” Answer—Take a fast for a few days and follow the menus I give you each week in this column. Any ordinary the | ca8e of eczema can be cured by the action of this germ, but it must be rememberéd that the toxin produced use of a correctly balanced diet. No sanitarium treatment is necessary if you will follow the proper regime at Sleeplessness Question—Mrs. J. K. writes; “I The ) have trouble in sleeping at night. Will that it is especially important for parents to protect children against this vir- ulent infection. It is possible that the sympt foms of tetanus may not occur until as late as twenty days after the infection has taken on this subject which I wai readers to remember. Every ‘There is just one important point nt my wound or abrasion of the skin should be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized immediately after the injury. with parts should be washed ized water and either peroxide drogen, mercurochrome, or som¢ antiseptic used directly in the If such precaution is taken, it steril- or hy- e other wound; will be impossible for tetanus to develop, and if everyone followed these i tions from now on there would be no this | more deaths from this cause. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Trouble with Fi: ingers Question—G. M. asks: “Wi itl you tell me a.remedy for my fingers? PA AAD wows Jeweeueus AN ANTARCTIC VOYAGE 10, 1842, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes and his exploration party were welcomed back to New York — a four-year voyage in the Antarctic, Wilkes’ expedition was the first umes. ‘Wilkes’ claim to the discovery of an Antarctic continent has not always e- beén upheld, but Sir Earnest Shack ‘Maetropolises, Chicago and New York, are by native and visitor. of proper names the radio wise men are British Broadcasting company has been “correct” the manner in which the names towns are pronounced, or rather (ip the war department, which 1s supposed to be adept in ganes, has itself been as paralyzed as the igor because warfare In’ nativs eborn. are no lonter under Jananese jurisdic- “Hoover efficiency” were being a: ton. es if ‘sorely tried by Unest beetles as by congress. it it H i | f He é it 4 you please tell me the cause of this? Also, I have @ dizzy feeling in my head upon arising.” Answer—Insomnia is generally pro- duced by over-eating at the evening meal, or using foods which make stomach gas. This would also cause biliousness, with the resultant dizzy spells which you experience each me “Thin, But Healthy Question—D. H. writes: “I am 57 years old, doing light inside work. Have been twenty pounds under- weight for the past 30 years, but never sick—always on the job and full of Pep. I eat two meals a day. Do you think I should eat more to try to gain weight?” Answer—Feeling as well as you do, IT think it would be folly for you to do anything to try to gain weight. Your chances for reaching a ripe old age are much better if your weight is kept slightly under that figure which is usually given in weight tables. If you will plan your meals so as to get all of the different food elements your body requires, you need never be afraid of eating too little. The danger 4s always in eating too much. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) “I hope the day will come when it two nations want to fight there will