The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune 4 An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) a Published the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- march ND. and entered at the postoftice at Bismarck lass mail matter. Gonge ds Mana... ssoeee-Prealdent and Publisher ne Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ig per year (in Bismarck) per year, Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mall, in state, per year Weekly by mail, in state, three years for . ‘Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, POF YEAr 2... ceeece reese seen ee eeeeeenns seeeeee 150 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication ot all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and aiso the local news of spontaneous origin publisheo herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State and County Newspaper) a i THE BIG CITY PROBLEM Real estate experts, meeting at Montreal, attempt to chart some sort of course which American cities can fol- low in their expansion. Such things as automobile nark- ing, rapid transit, skyscrapers and traffic outlets are dis- cussed in all their phases as the experts strive to find some way of making life endurable in the crowded centers of population. It is a big problem, and ic will continue to get bigger each year. In fact, it may yet prove the very biggest problem America has to face. Meanwhile—quite by chance, yet very timely—news- papers in every city in the land print pages of vacation advertisements. You cannot pick up a daily paper without finding your- self urged to get out into the open spaces for a rest. Lakes, mountains, rivers and ocean beaches flaunt their attractions in imperative type. Bathing girls are sketched in against a background of smooth beaches; excursion steamships are shown gliding over moonlit waters; fish- ermen are depicted enticing lusty bass and trout from Jonely, shaded streams. ‘These advertisements carry the appeals of every sec- tion of the country, and of course vary greatly. Yet the basic appeal of them all is the same; get out of the city into the country and make yourself over—get away from the crowds, find a little peace and quiet and fresh air and get some strength for the next year’s work. ‘Thus, in a way, the cat is let out of the bag. At the precise moment when the real estate experts are vision- ing a constant growth in size on the part of all our cities, these vacation advertisements are emphasizing what all of us secretly know—that the modern city, at bottom, is @ pretty poor sort of place to live, and that people can stand it only by getting away from it every so often. All of our cities are crowded now. All of them are tangled and jammed by streams of traffic. All of them contain vast throngs of people who can never get out of sight or sound of one another. And, since the country is constantly growing, all of these things are going to grow worse instead of better. Congestion is to become more congested, noise is to become noisier, frayed nerves are to be rinde more and more taut and strained, The real estate experts are trying to find some wey of handling these problems—and the rest of us, meanwhile, scan the vacation advertisements and dream fondly of getting off by ouprselves in the summer sunlight, where there are no crowds or traffic cops or neighbors’ radios or tumultuous streets. While we dream of our vacations, though, we might as well drop a prayer for the success of the expert realtors. For, after all, we are going to continue to live in our cities, whether we like it or not; and the least we can do is hope that some way will be found of making them more endurable. THE NEW WASHINGTON The new department of commerce building, of which the cornerstone was recently laid by the president, will be ‘an $18,000,000 structure covering three city blocks and will stand as an inspiring monument to American com- merce and industry. But of far more significance at the moment is its place as inaugurating the building program for the “New Washington,” a long cherished dream of the nation. Completion of the so-called Pennsylvania avenue tri- angle scheme, which contemplates a huge triangle of new government buildings and parks having as its three cor- ners the capitol, the white house and the Washington monument, will go far toward realizing the vision of Pierre Charles L’Enfant. The national capital is destined to be the world’s most beautiful city. That L'Enfant was no impractical visionary is borne out by the perfect adaptability of his “wheel” to the pres- ent plans for the glorification of the federal city. The Pennsylvania avenue triangle would not be possible had Washington been planned after the manner of other cities, Her radical arteries make her not only a unique city but the city best adapted to modern traffic condi- tions. Washington is the greatest moral of all time in city Planning. Australia, in building her new federal city, heeded that moral, and old cities throughout the civil- ized world are heeding its dictates wherever they cut new traffic arteries. What a pity there were not more L'En- fants when America was built! MR, BUMBLE MAY BE RIGHT A Edward Newton of Philadelphia, an author and a scholar, is & book collector of considerable prominence. Recently, while in England, he bought an old edition of Rabelais. Returning to the United States. this book was taken from him by U. 8. customs men, who held it to be “an obscene document.” ‘Seldom has the utter dumbness of the official busybody been better illustrated than in this case. ‘There are passages in Rabelais, to be sure, that could Aen below the 1914 level. Pipe tobacco production paralicled the cigar output very closely. Apparently we are turning to cigarets in preference to other forms of tobacco. But there’s no puzzling fact in these figures. Snuff—which, no doubt, most of us had supposed a pretty outmodea commodity—continues to gain. There were 40,655,000 pounds of it sold last year —half a million, pounds more than in 1927, and a good 10,000,000 pounds over the 1914 mark. ‘Will somcone please explain that? WOMEN IN POLITICS The recent conviction in Pittsburgh of three women, active in civic affairs, of ballot-box “stuffing” coincided with the decennial of the nineteenth amendment, extend- ing equal suffrage to women. This case and numerous others involving women in election frauds revive memories of the agitation preced- ing and attending the adoption of women’s suffrage. The Immediate effect of adoption of the amendment, its advocates preached, would be to purify politics and exalt civic ideals, These arguments were so sincerely and earnestly stressed that many politicians of the old school were apprehensive lest votes for women would render difficult the familiar intrigues by which political power was acquired. Ten years of votes for women have left political mor- ality much as it was before. Just as womanhood is on a par with manhood in honesty and idealism, the lady poli- ticians are the equal of men in potential and actyal cor- ruption. Looking backward the old school of pollticians who feared the women would “crab their act” may both chuckle at their fears and feel a little chagrined over their stupidity and gullibility. No commission on law observance and enforcement is needed to determine whether women are by nature more or less law-abiding than men. We have the female election crook, besides a great preponderance of women among shoplifters, blackmailers and non-commercial Jewelry smugglers. After all, Adam's rib isn't far removed from Adam. A SURPLUS AND A FAMINE This world is organized in a queer manner, when you stop to think about it. In the agricultural regions of the United States a great many farmers are facing financial loss because their crops are too big. They have grown more wheat than they can sell; the price has tumbled way down, and only some artificial stimulus will bring it up again. In China, meanwhile, a good many millions of people are facing actual starvation because their crops are too small. There simply isn't anything for them to eat. Un- less outside help comes, enough people to populate the containing large amotnts of starchey, sugars and fats. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Coddied brasions should lized water as possible after the injury, with iodine or mer- He bilby they will be more completely than bread, and are not fattening as bread, as potatoes contain only about one-third as many calories or heat units as bread. Gall-Bladder Removed ; eg joa? ried women who are not successfully married, hanted by a large percent- age of the 1,250,000 flappers who reach the age of 18 every year. “I think we must all frankly admit that staying married today is a s ee t state of Ohio will die of hunger. Too much in one place—not enough in another. No- body, thus far, seems to have thought of tying the two regions together so that the ills of both can be alleviated. The world is organized on a queer basis somehow. If he is a sheik, you may think you are marrying off your daughter when you are merely getting another free boarder. \ Most men will back the no-smoking-by-women canj- Paign if the campaigners will not ask any sacrifice by the men. A dark brown taste sometimes follows the experience of a man who is having the experience of his life. The most becoming rouge on the market is healthy food and plenty of good exercise. The futility of trying to beat a train to the crossing is often demonstrated by a fatality. Reminders that it is time to order Christmas cards is the first “shop early” warning. About all the lining a modern frock has is girl. Editorial Comment THE DIESEL ENGINE COMING (Springfield Republican) tough job for the man, even if we discount the factor of lessening pres- sure upon sex standards. The world is so swift, so full of noise and jar, overwork, hurried decisions, trying Peale) things during the day, that none of is a born diletant. She tries us will stand as much pressure as in and stieks at nothing. She other days. We become irritated | takes on every fad that comes, wheth- more easily. We are less willing toj|¢r it’s clay work or painting, needle- stand borédom. Men and women who; point or dancing. She never does get along quite well together from | anything well enough to get satisfac- the mating standpoint get fed up with | tion out of it. each other, “I have a suspicion she doesn't even “Our whole situation has changed | enjoy things while she is doing them. since the Middle Ages. Some new I've noticed that her fad of the mq- kind of relationship must emerge— ‘ment always is the fad of her cur- it is emerging. I-don’t know what |rent chum. - the next year. it will be like. I don't particularly} “We don't encourage Nancy simply ** *® care. I know it won't be-any worse | because by this time we know that LIKE TO SEE BETTY! than marriage, but it may be no bet- eae re Led ae Debates Many comments could be made ' ter. anything. In fact, we ugh her about the asininity of our divorce *.* ¢ ie of an — before “re laws which permit a situation like SO UNNECESSARY! ‘eect he isvored on it or expects this, but more wonder centers about| “Taking the man’s point of view] "5 wid er ci tisk mn a woman who could “get away” with | again—there is no logical reason Briard esi “rege all af pre efe Mi = such a program. Either she was & | now for hig staying married. Women no “phe Peet - migrret a Cleo of Cleos and a Helen of Helens, ! ere not scarce, nor are they Jovated | 2¢eds help. tl —— | he or her various spouses were simps of | at geographically different points. a Sad ty | aae simps. ‘There is no longer any economical au cr ‘a a ten phovered woewe Jew oe — | reason for a man’s Setting pipe sr maps Great bldsablpl pale isa a One is certain, no matter what Speaking of husbands 2s simps, 'serub. If there is no genuine biolog-| ..o"tne csuses for, thelr evenescent however, now comes none lesb than | ical or economio basis for it. now that interests, they should not be laughed | ship the eminent behaviorist, John B.|We are all ready to think about it—| 9°” ree Charme Watson, to declare in “Cosmopolitan” | te ee Hoo Nee al eadeaalaag | ‘Any child who dashes from one en- a "t marry 50 years from fifty y Z ' kee eee { (rettange aa it may seem, the mle thusiasm to anothér in a way which Because all modern girls are hunt- lions of divorced couples over Ps resses, living for nothing but the | country with children prove that capture of a male, and because their j there is no problem of the child; the allures far exceed those of wives who, | child willbe cared for. ff s 4D2. SUMNER Answer—There is probably no con- nection between Though divorced seven times Mrs. Betty Leos, 33, of Seattic, Wash., has had only two husbands. She has di- vorced one husband six times and has just been divorced from another husband. All seven divorces have netted her something like $75,000. She started her game of marry-’em-di- vorce-‘em at the age of 18. She married one Stcarns, divorced him, and remarricd him within the year. Oh, yes—she redivorced him that same year, too, and remarried him fl i é il Fi Q i Ff El 5 i i fe B A of build up the general strength through systematic exercise and to eliminate for at least several weeks all foods Ah EBB 2 “If mother love were STEAMER CROSSES OCEAN intensely On June 20, 1819, the first steam- succeeded crossing the At- can no aid and counsel. Yet mothers seem to delight in the thought that their familiés ‘would be helpless without them.”—Eudora Ramsay Richardson. (Plain Talk.) ss “I think that the Stock gambling situation has become such a national evil as well as a national scandal as ‘The coming of the Diesel engine is made to seem near by the announcement that the General Motors com- pany has bought a large plant at which experiments have for some time been in progress in the development of Diesel engines for airplanes. With the Packard com- Pany already in possession of a Diesel engine adequate for a successful flight from Detroit to Washington, com- petition should hasten the availability of such engines for general service. What effect these developments will have upon the automobile industry, and other industries which have come to depend upon the gasoline enginc—also upon the oil and gasoline industry itself—no one can foretell. Yet. in a time when revolutionary changes may be just around the corner, it is apparent that advantage will lie with large industrial units which maintain elaborate research departments and have large financial reserves available ane ne reconstruction and re-equipmert of present plants. The degree to which industrial investments may be affected by invention and by changes in the arts is thus emphasized. It is difficult to conceive of so radical a change as the general introduction of the Diesel engine without its being accompanied by the appearance of a a. of new millionaires—also the elimination of some ones. HELIUM PRODUCTION (New York Times) Announcement has been made of the discovery of a natural gas in Utah running as high as 7.07 per cent in helium. If this is confirmed to the satisfaction of the errrrament. the United States will be fortunate. Hither- gas found there is only 1.75 per cent. In November last the commerce department stated that from the Amarillo, Texas, source enough helium pool developed to sup- ply the needs of military dirigibles for some time to come. That was an optimistic view, in the opinion of some of the experts. Recently the bureau of mines was of the opinion that “in those rather rare natural gas de- its which contain any helium at all, no more than ween 1 and 2 per cent of volume of the gas can be ex- tracted as pure helium.” Certainly, the Los Angeles has not had all the helium that was wanted for cruising, but Hd part that may have been due to the process of ex- raction. x fini in out, are bound to become drab and) better brought up anyway if kept ‘emotional need for which he is duli- by the mere process of befng | away frem the parents and brought | mabie to satisfaction. wives, and because no husband! up by trained persons.’ Such a need look to merely a drab wife for| Certainly fodder for thought here-}1. have lost his happiness and pleasure, no man | in! and feelings, will marry, reasons Watson. ! t in He reminds us what eyery woman ; knows; that the man of 40 or 50 or; London.—A young couple even 60 may be attractive to the girl ; Plating matrimony spproac! of 20 and the woman of 30, but that |magistrate at Tottenham recen' the woman of 40 or 50 or 60 who trails The girl's parents objected about with a younger man is merely | match, saying that laughed at as one being “gyped” for ; ject to fits and had her money. . * * & said that he would HUNTERS—AND HUNTED . The “The married man,” writes Watson, preparing the youth “who is trying to stay married with !cooking, sent him to a an eye blind to the charms of women his teeth fixed and other than his wife, is doubly hunted |the couple as soon as —hunted by the 20,000,000 odd mar- \* home. no matter haw beautifully they start! “All of them would be happier cept | 8smn8 ‘are but the expression of some evil as well ¢ onal scandal 0s the committee."—Senator King of - *#** “without argument, it will be ad- we|The dog became attached to marry | gardener and three or four times t secured ' week hops a train and rides to visit il ~ To BAD YoU won't Be we YEH, w IT'S 100 H-iM- Too BAD You He V7 HERE FoR THE SUMMER, D> You'll Miss LADS CAN‘T Go Magor J~ Buster, MACK, — that Ja ABROAD werd me/ AW’ I ARE RENTING A —~ THERE'LL BE wm» LONDON .~ PARIS,~ FoUR-BUNK motor LAUNCH. ]/ PLE oF Room Rone, — BERLIN,» GONNA SPEND ouR Vacation) oN Th" BOAT, AN? ww AH ow THE FamoUS BEACHES oN rT wet cRuisile, OF DEAUVILLE, WELL HAVE 17 SWIMMING ,~ FISHING, For A MoNtH / AN” ARGUING Je Yo ColLD AND CAWNES,~ ene . 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