The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1929, Page 4

One nawonn (29RBI o—eieues geoecase BASU 777EEENYEROMNyELOREED P2OntmaAne « PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- tg N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck mail matter. George free 0. Mann eee eesseeesseeee! President and Publisher ———E— Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismai Daily by mati, per year, (in state, outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Weekly by mail, in state. per year .... I, in state, three years tor outside of North Dakota, Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub‘ication of all news dispatches credited to it or | not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the | loca} news of spontaneous origin publishea herein. All rights of republication of al] other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State and County Newspaper) OLD COMPLAINT If you study ancient history you sometimes learn some curious things. Prof. James H. Breasted, director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, has found that the Egyptians of 2000 B. C. had political and social Problems just like our own. ’ In politics, they were using the cry “Turn the rascals out” and wondering if it would ever be possible to set up &@ government that would be both just and efficient. In their social organization they were despairing of the future and bewailing the sins of the younger gener- ation, the follies of the rich and the general uselessness of trying to improve the lot or raise the intelligence of the ordinary man. Professor Breasted reveals that the Ecyptians of 4000 years ago, crying for a governmental housecleaning, were completely confident that if only the rascals who sat in high places could be removed—perhaps they had treacherous cabinet members and nit-wit representatives, even in those days—everything would be serene, forever after. “How little could these earliest social dreamers foresee that after 4000 years their spiritual posterity would still be looking fondly for a new age—after they had turned the rascals out!” he remarks thoughtfully. Probably these ancient Egyptians finally succeeded in throwing their set of rascals out, just as we, from time to time, have done; and afterwards, beyond doubt, they were puzzled and disillusioned to observe that things went on much as before. For one of the hardest things in the world to understand is the fact that all human progress is made very gradually. It is seldom visible to the naked eye. Sometimes, indeed, it looks like the reverse of progress. But, after all, we do move forward. We still have the same problems that tormented the Egyptians 4000 years ago; but we are handling them just a bit better. There is a shade more happiness in the world now than there was then; a trifle less cruelty, ignorance and malice. These old Egyptians dreamed shining dreams of a reign of justice, freedom and peace. They never saw their dreams fulfilled; and we, 4000 years after their time, have not seen them fulfilled either. But the important thing is that the dreams have persisted. We still have them, and we are still clinging to them. Despite all the pessimism that is so popular nowadays, we have somehow managed, in these 40 centuries, to edge just a little bit closer to that fulfillment. And every man who dreams.the old dream and hopes the old hope is, by the mere fact of dreaming and hoping, making the way a little bit smoother for the next 40 centuries. extinct. sary for the new heavier and faster military aircraft, but DRESSING LIKE EVE right back. It is easy enough to ridicule. hard to prove. Skeptic. their first ancestors emerged from the animal life of the jungle. They come as near being apes as any human being can and still call Adam grandpa. name—consists of two bunches of leaves, one in front and one in back, thrust into a belt of string decorated with clay stems. The dress is changed each day, and as a the discarded finery. Emerging from her home in the rocks, the goddess of the Baiturni river, so the legend goes, once saw several of the Juang women dancing without anything on to speak of. She was outraged and ordered the leaf dress, with the threat that should the tribe abandon it the curse of death would fall on the women and the tribe would be exterminated. RETIRING THE ‘LIBERTY’ One of the few American wartime aviation successes was the Liberty motor, now to be mustered out of mili- tary service because better motors have come to take its Place. In its day the Liberty motor was the best in its field but it has neither the speed nor the efficiency put in the latest airplane motors by aeronautical engineers. There are two notable successes to the credit of this product of the war. It helped win the war and made it Possible for commercial aviation to take root quickly in the United States after the war. When American auto- mobile factories began pouring these ingenious motors into the front by the hundreds, Germany ceased to be master of the clouds, and when. after the armistice, the war department unloaded its surplus motors upon the market, commercial aviation received its first real im- Petus through the production of cheap planes for the first time. But the “miracle motor” is not to become immediately It lacks the power. speed and efficiency neces- there are unnumbered revolutions left in Libertys for commercial flying. Still more of the Liberty motors are to finish out their flying days in civilian service. A PEST BRINGS RICHES The lowly rabbit, which used to be the chief pest of farmers in New Zealand and Australia, is now providing those people with a good deal of prosperity. When rabbits were first introduced into the lands down. under, they nearly ate the farmers out of house and home. So rapidly did they multiply that crops were devastated. Farmers used to organize great drives to round them up and exterminate them. Then someone discovered that America was a marvel- ous market for felt hats. And rabbit skins are used in the making of felt. So, now, according to Major W. H. Cochrarf, assistant secretary of the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn, many shiploads of rabbit skins reach New York annually from New Zealand and Australia, to make hats for the American head. The result, of course, is that the same farmers who used to curse the rabbit are now making money off of him, and the ships that bring the pelts to this country are taking back autos, radios, plumbing equipment and other adjuncts to prosperity. A woman is always an egotist’s second love. Figures may not lie and still not show good form. With girls styles may come and go, but a porch swing never again will have all the attractions of an auto- mobile. : PROBLEM OF THE OCCIDENT A prominent churchman pleads for a slackening of écience and invention until moral progress learns to keep pace with intellectual advance. The author of Eccles- tastes toc: note of the fact that God made man upright, but that he has since sought out many inventions. Man's first disobedience in Eden, carrying with it the birth of the moral problem, was essentially an act of that restless curiosity, that itch for experimentation, which is science. An embargo on science until the moral consciousness can.catch up with invention is the permanent answer. Let him forswear the use of his machines for the pur- Poses of war, let him concentrate on the arts of peace, and what happens? The arts of peace are precisely ex- Perimentation, discovery, invention. Man will devise newer and more ingenious machines for the advancement of life, and in a moment of moral breakdown will turn them to the purposes of a more ingenious and elaborate war. The real moral problem consists in man’s striving to keep ethically abreast with his own restless inventions instruments of mischief lying about, the merit of keeping out of war is not striking, Character and morals as the Closed the gap between ethics and progress by ceasing to invent. The problem of the Occident is how to forge Steel without turning it into cannon and to invent thiorine without employing it in the trenches. ~ COLLEGE VAGABONDS some students the vagabond lecture is stimulating. . Vegabonding has the approval of some educators. The student who drifts about in s frankly haphazard manner Editorial Comment INDIA’S WOMEN MINERS (St. Paul Dispatch) On July 1 the British government of India begins a bold reform. The number of womeh working in the mines of India is to be reduced ten per cent each year and given other occupation. Of the 32,000 women 69 employed more than 28,000 are in the coal and salt mines of Bengal, Bihar and the Central provinces. As long ago as 1922 a joint committee of the Indian legislature urged upon the British executives abolition of women labor in the mines within a period of five years. ‘This was found impossible, for resistance came not merely from the mine-owners but from the women. They earn 16 cents a day and even this miserable pittance is higher than agricultural laborers working in the sunshine on | #8sciation to that person. aH surface command. Hence their resistance to the reform. To avoid a conflict an amendment was made in the mining law régulating hours of labor, giving a rest day in seven and fixing minimum age for child labor. With this also went authority to the government to restrict or regulate employment of women in mines. It is under this provision that the gradual elimination of women from the mines has been arranged. The government's difficulty is explained by the existence of one caste in India whose Amazonian women have built most of the roads, grades and earthen work dams in India. This: is one of the cruelties inflicted by the caste system which in centuries has been impervious to change. PENSIONS FOR EX-PRESIDENTS (Minneapolis Journal) The visit some York City “on business” served to revive the old ques- tion, “What shall we do with, or for, our ex-presidents?” No previous incumbent of the presidency had a keener appreciation of the dignity of the office than Mr. Cool- idge. It may be taken for granted that he will never undertake activities that will even remotely violate the Proprieties. be necessary for one who has the republic in the most responsible and difficult that falls to the lot of any man in this modern w to be obliged fe steps ou living ex-president, William H. Taft. his country efficiently and with great _— % the supreme court. Mr. Cool- i ig i r) i 5 z g oye i i cf i | t 3 E i i if fee il gE i ry Ze Fin Me z tion for the proprieties. He which bed sent great some phase if il When some smart aleck laughs at the old Bible story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, just you laugh It is pretty But on the side of the story evidence has been found that Adam and Eve very likely did wear fig leaves as clothes. For in India live the Juangs, 11,000 of them, and that’s just what they dress in. So there now, Mister The ancestry of the Juangs has been unmixed since The costume—from which, by the way, the tribe got its result the outskirts of Juang villages are ankle deep in | Lindbergh and voted for Hoover. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Tt was a family of “Grandma Pun week Sunday, June ‘Sunday : Coddled eggs, crisp ba- (browned through) Stewed prunes. Lunch: Combination salad of to- matoes, celery and cucumbers, glass of party held in honor Brown's” 99th birthda; v4 ALLENE SUMNER, Because Harriet Connor Brown of Washington, D. C., was not too busy to listen to the tales of older people, not too interested in and sure of the superiority of everything modern and @ little scornful of any worth.in the good old days, she has won fame and fortune. The Atlantic Monthly prize of $5,000 “for the most interesting bi- ography of any kind, sort or descrip- tion” has just been awarded Mrs. Brown for her biography called “Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927.” Over half a thousand manuscripts were submitted. Napoleon, Lincoln, Gladstone, Disraeli, all the classic fig- ures for biography were resurrected, of course. But Mrs. Brown merely picked out a common garden variety little old woman who had lived through one of the most remarkable hundred years ever known to man. se ° IMPORTANT YEARS | Grandma Brown's span of days/ 4, has seen all the vital events of our nation. She knew the old pioneer days) of prowling Indians and no wa- ter to drink. She has lived ‘ea DAWES Picture of American life in author ‘ography. An ape-man, “Wah Oo Wah! the most. vital wars, battled in the temperance cause, marveled at the Chicago World's fair, given grand- Fou sons to the World war, prayed for | one The biography is not only an ac- count of the things one woman has seen, but in running dialogue form; pe preserves her spicy, pungent, mellowy, human comments on life as she has seen it. $5,000 award is not a daughter or granddaughter, but a daughter-in- I it is. This is quite in accord with the! common occurrence of “outsiders” | oo. the - real quality of people . * rather than those nearest by blood oF |” wie world’s | Many families have been given smoother sailing by the advent of a new in-law opening the entire fam- ily’s eyes to the interest and charm * of one of their members hitherto) 1 would be given little notice or found not at all worthy of attention. mistake, ment till the book had taken form. ss & COMMENTS Former Vice, President Charles Dawes says of the book: “Here is a of “the most interesting bi- BARBS captured City the other day, keeps shouting ly some baseball fan reverted to type. sek ke A headline says ind Taller and Thicker.” Still y're pretty smart, at that. “se * ‘The legislature in Michigan has started an investigation to determine hether or not do-eds smoke. After through with that one, they might try to find out also whether Harriet Connor Brown who wins the | OT not any of gre inate bale. Senator Heflin got no response} jaw of “Grandma Brown,” of Mrs. | amen se coree any. Protas me i ee ee ae : . senat jare Maria D. Brown whose blography | sould support Al Smith for president in’ 1932. All those senators are sup- porting themselves for president right farm close to the river so he could live all summer off the fish caught its planes with in his barb-wire fences during flood couldn't enjoy the luxury of an oc- casional that her youngest deughter-in-law, the now celebrated author, took the POISON IVY (By Alice Judson Peale) “Want to take a walk in the coun- try with me? I know where there are the New England | lots of Jacks-in-the-pulpit.” character as it reacted 200 years af- ter the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers to a new environment. More than that. It is an epic of the early and later ‘The book is| of y So Johnny is afraid to go walking oe in the woods. He regards them with, suspicion and actually refuses to set foot in their malignant depths. Too bad. If you begin to be as careful as that about all the things which might possibly hurt you you may as | each of the carrots and turnips. Mix well permanently take to your hed. all together, do not add water or Of course, there are individuals to| salt, and place in an oiled baking whom certain common dish. Cover, and bake in @ hot oven Plants cause genuine illness, but they| for almost thirty minutes, are rare. Most of us let the\pos- | ready to serve, season with butter or sibility of a little physical discom-|a little cream. fort interfere with our own and the children’s summer funmuch more oe than it should. * Don't educate your children to such fear of poison ivy that, on the theory that all vines are guilty until proven innocent, they steer clear of FAAS CLEVELAND NOMINATED On June 21, 1892, Grover Cleveland was nominated for a second term as President of the United States by near Mexico Probably it’s mere- your own: concern for your children’s health develop in gored a it. You are too likely to instill in them a wholly foolish timidity and “Modern Girls them afraid of it. recognize any common poisonous plant which they are likely to meet in them a distrust of the whole green countryside. ISLANDS RADIO PLANES Honolulu— This far-off United ri States possession is air-minded, too, jaxlest man. bull his {and in addition 6 has followed modern aviation trend and equi cope of. receivers. | S71 Planes between Honalulu ane Hilo * * | @ dull life if one Z~~ECAD, I AM -6oING fo SPEND: MY Time: oN BOARD SHIP BY BRUSHING plan Ris bag - paeneil IG VERY Necessiy! IN PARIS I~ AY ONE Time I WAS SO ADEPT AT SPEAKING “THe LANGUAGE , -T WAS ALWAYS: TAKEN FoR A NATIVE FRENCHMAN J ew HMM GAR . ET UNE Bow 3 Z Z because “Wit ALWAYS). DU McCoy's menus suggested for} beginning QUESTIONS AND: ANSWERS Salts Question—Reader asks: “Will Please tell me if you approve ot/my, ide its Question—Mrs, C, W. asks: “Is the moderate use of condiments very harmful? I find it hard to do without Se ne © MineeaE in preparing met Answer—Spices and condiments stimulate the flow of digestive juice, and if they are used at all they should be used at a meat meal. Those who suffer from When | with, legs.” —William Marston. (Outlook and Independent.) a) p “Never make the mistake of o¥er-