The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1929, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck 88 second class mail matter. George D. Mann ................President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) by mail, per year, state, outside Bismarck) ....... mail, outside of North Dakota . ‘Weekly by mail, in state, per year .... Weekly by mail, in state, three years for . . Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Per year .............. sone Member Audit Bureag of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER ia LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ——$—$———— SLOGANS IN OLD POMPEII Workers digging into the ruins of ancient Pompeii came, the other day, on a set of rather interesting dis- BOSTON THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE true conception of aims and purposes. They must be shown that sports and pleasures alone will not do them truch good. They need to seek knowledge, intelligence, and interest in the good causes of the time. With en- lightened motive added to increased power, then we shall sce rapid advance in social welfare. THE MENACE OF FIREWORKS The safe and sane Fourth of July has been preached in this country for a good many years—so many that it seems almost like a waste of breath to repeat the preach- ment this year. Nevertheless, we have been pretty slow to learn. On the outskirts of nearly every city there are suburban stores and roadside booths where fireworks are on sale— and thousands of otherwise intelligent parents are per- mitting their children to buy as many of these things as they wish. ‘The natural result will be that on July 5 we will read in our newspapers that a great many children have been killed and that a great many more have been blinded, crippled, burned or disfigured. As is done here in Bismarck, practically every town in the country gives a free fireworks display on the Fourth of July. Let your child get his thrill that way; fire- crackers and skyrockets are altogether too dangcrous for children to handle. A GOOD TOWN Put a peg of prosperity into your community by stay- ing with it. Always greet your neighbor with a grasp of confidence. Criticize in the spirit of godspeed. Say a good word if it hurts. Remember that those who insist on hanging themselves will do it if given cnough coveries, Clearing away the rubbish from what was once a busy street, they found, on the walls of the houses, slogans which the Roman politicians had painted there 2,000 years ago in the course of some long-forgotten political campaign. ‘These slogans make odd reading in this day. One of them, for instance, bore the simple announce- ment: “Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk.” Another advised the voters, “If you care for good bread and better games vote for Cleonius Prisus.” This, of course, referred to the Roman custom of furnishing free bread and gladiatorial games to the poorer citizens. A third, somewhat rhapsodic, implored: “Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo.” In such manner did the politicians of the age of Au- gustus seek to snare the votes of the citizenry. ‘There is a childish quality to these electionecring slo- Bans that brings a smile. One candidate announces his Personal rectitude in the matter of strong drink; another frankly appeals to the selfish interests of the proletariat, and the third simply sets himself up as a paragon of beauty and leaves it up to the voters. Pondering over these slogans, it isn’t hard to understand why the Roman experiment in municipal government came such a woe- ful cropper. ‘Still, it won't do for us to get too cocky. Some of our own election slogans may look equally goofy to an antiquarian a few generations hence. ‘What for instance, will the learned men of 2500 A. D. think when they find that the great city of Chicago con- ducted a mayoralty campaign on the simple slogan of “America first!”"—with the winning candidate basing all his campaign speeches on two white rats which he carried around in cages with him? What will they think of a mayoralty campaign con- ducted not so long ago in the city of Cleveland, where the winning candidate, whose front name happened to be Harry, rode to victory on the terse line, “Harry is a good boy”? Will it amuse them to learn that the entire nation once elected a president whose appeal was based solely on ref- erence to a “full dinner pail’? And that another presi- dential campaign once hinged about the cry, “Keep cool with Coolidge”? ‘Those are a few of our slogans. They don't particularly shine by comparison with the slogans of 2,000 years ago. The Romans had a fair measure of self-government. ‘They stumbled and fell because the mass of their citizens were unable to handle real issues in a campaign, but had to heve simple, obvious slogans they could understand. Are we headed in the same direction—or have we more Sense than our politicians give us credit for? SOPHISTICATION’S TRIUMPH the space of a decade the American people have been exposed to the full force of a campaign remorse- Jessly devoted to eradicating from territory of the United States all survivals of the preceding benighted epoch. It has been, in a word, a battle for self-expression. For 10 years a bombardment of withering satire rained down upon the heads of the herd-minded, standardized, intim- idated, propagandized, service-clubized, and in other ways never-daring-to-call-their-souls-their-own inhabitants of Main street. y For 10 years it was ceaselessly impressed upon the na- tion that the age of authority was gone, that standards had no validity, that the supreme duty of man was ex- perimenation with everything, and the highest good was what was good in one’s own eyes. And as the result of these 10 years’ intensive training im self-expression hundreds of thousands read what their club or publisher picks out for’them. Where, little children, it will be asked, does the self-expression come in? Obviously, my dears, in the opportunity afforded the reader to express himself by choosing among— ‘The Book of the Month club. ‘The Literary Guild. ‘The Poetry Book club. The Crime club. ‘The Detective club. be Ge Meee anges as | 25 years ago, what these g rope. Give your neighbor a right to an opinion as long. as he keeps it to himself. Discuss questions involving your better welfare instcad of arguing with them. Apply the Golden Rule regardless of consequences. Give the young people plenty of pleasure. Failures reflect on the entire town. See what you can do to keep your neighbor on top of the water. Don't let him drown. Let's have more handshakes and arm-in-arm confer- ences with a goodwill parting. It adds to that day's events. Let's break the shell and step out. The world is won- dering what we are going to do next. Let's show ‘cm. OUR DEAD SEA IN SIBERIA The Veterans of Foreign Wars, most commendably, are now working to have the bodies of American soldiers who were killed in Siberia returned to this country. It is to be hoped that congress can see its way clear to have this done. At the same time, it might be a good thing if the gov- ernment files were opened so that we could find out ex- actly why our soldiers went to Siberia at all. Most Amcricans, probably, have forgotten that we sent an expeditionary force to Asia during and after the war. Just what that force did, why it went there and what led up to its dispatch, are matters covered with more or less mystery. If a little light could be shed on the matter it would be received with gratitude. Another excellent training in the art of diplomacy is a daughter 16 years old. : A little puff of air can inflate prices, but it takes a sledge to reduce them. Things could be worse. Bills are usually mailed in- stead of sent by wire. ——_———— Editorial Comment Eee ree mesial ferrovitr easy aM BRAKE RODS TO LIMOUSINES (New York Herald Tribune) Almost as devastating as the news that cow punchers have taken to Fords is the announcement of the chief of Police for the New York Central railroad that hoboes in the east have abandoned the brake rods and are now | touring the country by automobile. Thus one by one do} the institutions of romance surrender to the pitiless ad- | vance of the machine. “Riding the rods” has never received the attention it deserves in the literature of derring-do. Its audacity has been obscured by the natural tendency of organized so- ctety to side with the railroad “bulls” in their warfare up- on it. But now that it is falling into disuse it may come into its own as marking a distinct chapter in the romance of developing America. For, in the absence of other means of free transporta- tion, how else could the impecunious adventurer cover the vast distances on this continent, how else could he swell the ranks of labor as the demand arose in wheat field and lumber camp or in any of the far-away places of productive effort? It has been habitual to associate this manner of travel with tramps and hoboes and there- fore to think of it as contributing merely to the con- venience of parasites. But if the truth were known we should probably discover that most of the humbler classes of labor have been depending upon it for their mobility and that “riding the rods” has been a factor of real importance in the distribution of man power where it has been most. needed. But aside from its social and economic significance, Picture the risks it entails. Clinging to the under side of @ railway car making 60 miles an hour, being stung by Pebbles from the right-of-way with the speed of bullets, listening to the roar of death two feet below, will stand comparison with the ordeal of a pony loping past sniping Indians or with that of the air mai carrier surmounting a snowstorm over the Alleghenies. And to think that the heroes of the rods are now “hitch- hiking”! Soft times, degenerate days. FOREIGN TARIFF PROTESTS (Washington Star) France has formally protested to the state department against the proposal to increase the American tariff on certain French products imported into the United States. Official protests have also been lodged with Secretary. Stimson by Spain, Italy and Persia. In all four of these countries there are urgent demands for retaliatory action against American goods. In this hemisphere, Canada and Argentina are perhaps in even angrier mood. Altogether more than a dozen different governments have formally or informally caused it to be known at Washington that our projected new tariffs are obnoxious to them. Ob- Jection to the Hawley bill's increase is, like the shot fired at Lexington, ringing around the world. The senate finance leagues are bound to weigh carefully this swelling volume of indignation which is rising against pro} boosts in the whole American tariff structure They will need to remember that protest emanates from our best customers, now our friends but in temper to be- come our economic foes. has specialized, during the extra session now The Adventures of Jack and Jill! ,DAY.... “The family without children is one of the saddest episodes of human life. “Every normal woman craves a child. She should have as many as she can bear. The sad woman is the unmarried maiden who longs and craves for children, and sees little hope... .’ A few of the bromides and general- ities not at all universally true spok- en by Mussolini in an outbreak in current “Cosmopolitan” entitled “I Tax Bachelors.” He explains that he taxe¢ the mis- creants because by their selfishness they are denying these “sad unmar- ried maidens” their only hope—chil- : dren, *** * THOSE OTHER DAYS Somehow the Great Mussy takes us back to a day when women were only too glad to be bought in matri- mony inexchange for so many Pounds of tobacco—only too glad to enter upon the only life of that time— @ life of wifing and child-bearing. Somehow he takes us back to the day when no epithet gnawed worse than that of “old maid,” and when no species of the human family was regarded as quite so tragically wasted. | He takes us back to an age which | we thought beautifully and happily , | ing woman proves his contention that : the mother is the only real contrib- | forgotten in a new era which per- mits the unmarried woman to live as fully and happily as the married one, and which grants that the unmarried woman has a social and cconomic value quite as great as that of her married sister. * ee DOUBTS To say that “the family without chudren is one of the saddest epi- sodes of human life,” is a bit strong. I know, and you know, any number Of childless families which, if caught in the iron grip of “the saddest epi- sode of human life,” put up a dandy Pretense of being blissfully unaware Of their “tragedy.” Such childless families which I know are composed of two idealistic, earnest, gifted young people intent on hewing out a life which will permit them the fullest self-expression of those talcnts within them. They have @ radiant peace and conscience-less contentment because they know they OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern Jos THERE, EGAD, ALL PACKED Aid READY FOR 115 SeveNTeeNTH RIP To EUROPE J ~ MY WoRD, LAD, ~ IF THAT “TRUNK coULD BUT. TALK AND RELATE “ITS “TRAVELS, ~~ HM-me IT woULD PUT MANY A LECTURER To Stor, ~~ Aro He WORLD EIGHT TIMES, WW DARKEST AFRICA. —~ SIAM, 4~ EGYP’ THE. SouTH “SEAS LON A EXPEDITION, w~ By dove, IF IT Neice 76 - RELATE THE HAD SIGHTS: IT Has THE EXPERIENCES 11 Congress —Perhaps—winding to a tempestuous close, that it is no Tespecter of the person or wishes of the president. Mr. Hoover's message to the session on April 16 specifically a moderation in new tariff legislation, as far fs the susceptibilities and interests of foreign countries are concerned. None knows better than the former He ling it—the soone: congress realizes the necessity @ square deal for our overseas neighbors, the better for mittee and the senate itself ‘hich amounts to a on ‘es see hamstrung Ww has arisen wherein we our own face, £2 jare not social slackers but are con- tributing to the world as surely as if producing offspring. | While many men and women man- ge to produce offspring and also develop along the lines of their own ecullar talents, hundreds and thou- sands of fathers and mothers find their own lives diverted, by the grim necessity of bread and butter for self and children, into merely bread-and- butter channels. * * * ITS NATURAL It is human to build up a defense against hurts by insisting that our own way of living is best. Most adults are parents. Ergo, they must reason that to be a parent is the only way to happiness and scelf-fulfillment. To say that “every normal woman craves a child” is a bit thick. Prob- ably the majority do. Probably that is their way of sclf-expression, and a way not to be scorned or minimized. But there are certainly any number of “normal women” who have other aspirations and are not to be scorned nor derided for them. | We have a pretty myth to the effect {that a broken, empty, bitter heart lurks behind the gay and successful imade names in the world for their | contributions in other ways. | There is little doubt that in many !cases this is so, but that it is uni- j versally so is much like saying that ;all the world likes sardines or arti- ' chokes, ¢ * ke * WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? Mussolini's treatment of the work- utcr. It would be interesting to see | just what’ would happen in his own !country if cll the women who are jcontributing in spheres other than j that of motherhood should suddenly elect to leave their desks. “The nation’s conscience must be | moved against the purposely childless | couple,” he writes. {If this conscience became really ef- | fective and moved couples through ‘shame to change their jobs for the ‘one and only one of parenthood, | again it would be interesting to sec | who would fill the empty niches, and how. |dian Empire 68 are Hindus, 22 are |Mohammedans, 3 Buddhists, 3 fol- jlow the religion of their tribes, 1 is |Christian, and 1 is Sikh, on the average. The belief of the remain- ling two is varied. YEH ‘MENTS Tye TraveLocue DowN uw INDIAGS PoLAR cooP SEEN, AND on SSS Ss SSSA CKED FoR ANOTHER HECTic EXPERIENCE = exterior of childless women who have | Of every 100 persons in the In-! sAROUND “TH” WoRLD WHo HAD } IT IN EScRow FoR UNPAID BILLS, ~~ TH SHERIFF ATTACH- AN’ VIA BED-SHEET RoPES out 7H” wiNdow Ju. THAT 0” MoTH APART Now, IF You REMOVED "TH" LABELS PLAYING GROWN-UP (By Alice Judson Peale) “The trouble with Judith is that {she wishes she were all grown up. ESTIMATING PROPER WEIGTH Weight is no longer considered an indication of health. The fashion of today favors thinness. Weighing ma- chines abound in every public gather- ing place, and they are well patron- ized, according to statistics. Many of these machines have charts attached to them to show how much one should weigh according to height and age, but these standards cannot be accurate, The correct weight is largely an individual matter, accord- ing to build. Some people are natur- ally slender and others are stocky. It would be foolish to try to make a slender person as heavy as a stocky one, or to reduce @ heavier built per- son down to the weight ofa smaller boned type. \ Those of the muscular type can carry a good deal of solid weight, but ‘an excess of fat can certainly not be, considered healthful. I therefore ad- vise those suffering from obesity to reduce the quantity of food and to ex- ercise a great deal. It is not wise, however, for the thin person to at- tempt to gain weight by stuffing with rich foods. A thin person should use a well balanced diet, avoid worry, sleep soundly, and attempt to gain by building muscle. The standards given in weight charts have usually been taken from the average of a great many people and cannot be considered as health standards, The weight may also vary, according to age, temperament, her- edity and occupation. No one should go to foolish ex- tremes, either in trying to gain or reduce. The best weight for an in- dividual is the weight at which he has the greatest amount of energy, re- Sardless of all charts. I do not us- ually try to estimate a person's cor- rect weight until I have studied his bony framework and a number of other factors. Frequently people write in asking for an estimate, and I am very glad to give this if they have given me their present weight, height in feet, age, occupation and full-length picture, preferably in a bathing suit. If any of my readers wish me to give them an estimate about their correct weight, I would advise them to have two photographs taken—one in front view and the other from the side. j She has all sorts of the very best Kinds of toys but she simply won't look at them. Her blocks and paints | and even her dolls mean nothing to | her. “I thought perhaps the trouble was that she had too many toys. So the other morning while she was play- ing in the park, I cleared them all ! out of her room and hoped that she would ask for them one by one. When she came home I half expected that she would raise an outcry ove? what I | had done. “But all she said was, ‘Oh, doesn't my room look nice! .. . It’s just like a grown up lady's room, isn't it?” Now what do you think of that’ from a four-year-old?” Judith is an only child completely surrounded by charming, affectionate i grown-ups. She is the sort of young- {ster who naturally responds to the { stimulus of personalities. To expect jher to play with toys when on all sides there are people ready to play with her, is a good deal like expect- jing her to eat rice pudding when | she can have ice cream. And yet it is bad for Judith thus to become dependent upon people in- stead of developing her satisfactions from her own resources. It is bad for ; her to skip the process of real growth because she wishes she were already “a grown up lady.” | For Judith, as for so many only children, the solution of the diffi- culty lies in companionship with those {of her own age. No matter how de- lightful_ may be a child's relation- ship to his elders, he needs above all things to play with his equals, oO !| Our Yesterdays | it * FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. H, V. Weatherby and children leave this week for their new home at Spokane Falls, Wash. where Mr. | Weatherby Preceded them. ; Governor and Mrs. Mellette have | sone to their home at Watertown, 8. TH LANDLADIES THAT WERE PUT ON 11S WILD FUGHTS FIRE ESCAPES, uw WOULD: FALL . CKER ‘Small kodak pictures will do. Write the present weight on the backs of the Pictures. I can then give you mv opinion based on years of experience and observation of thousands of pa- tients. Many will be surprised when my estimate states that their weight should be perhaps twenty or thirty Pounds lower. This is especially true with stout women who frequently talk themselves into the belief that Na- ture intended them to be heavy. Very few women are tall enough to weigh D., where they will remain until af- ter the Fourth. Mrs. John C. Hollemback has re- turned from St. Paul where she was the guest of Mrs. Grover. Riding habits for the young eques- triennes who will take part in the Fourth of July parade will be made at, the home of Mrs. John A. Soyell. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO George Couch is in New Rockford for a visit with his brother, Orley Couch, C. A. Burton has gone to the north woods of Minnesota to seek relief from asthma, Messrs. Peterson, Wolbert, Best and Healy were in Dickinson last night in- stituting a new K. of P. lodge. Miss Anna Carstens entertained a dozen of her girl friends at a party yesterday honoring Miss Ethel Crum of McKenzie who is visiting her. TEN YEARS AGO Rev. and Mrs. William Suckow left for Underwood and Tuttle for a few days’ visit with friends, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Griffin of Drewrys Bluff, Va., are guests at the home of their son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Richholt, Sister Boniface and Sister Sabina have gone to Chicago to attend the meeting of the Catholic hospital as- sociation of the United States. Mrs. L, E. Maynard and daughter Josephine left today for a motor trip . They will be accom as far as Jamestown by Mrs. A. E. Brink, who will visit friends there. aeZi SSS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE On June 22, 1870, pro- congress vided for organization of the ment of justice. aaa over one hundred and forty tounds, | nite men of the same height can weigh as much as two hundred Dr. McCoy will gladly answer persona! questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressea envelope for reply. pounds because of their larger bones and stronger muscular tissues. If those who are interested will sena me their photographs at once, I will be glad to give an extra amount of time to answering these letters’ and sending detailed information about either increasing or decreasing the weight to normal. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Torticollis Question—Mrs. G. H. J. writes: “For the past year my husband has been affected with what is called spas- modic torticollis. Will you please ex- Plain something about it, and tell me if there is any way to relieve him?” Answer — is, sometimes called wry-neck, is a contraction of the cervical muscles usually caused by some infection of the spinal acces- sory nerve. In females, it may be a hysterical condition, especially liabic [ to occur in those of a nervous family history. It may appear following a cold or blow. The back portion of the head is pulled toward the shoul- der of the affected side. The face is raised and rotated to the other shoul- der. In long standing cases these muscles may become very rigid or even atrophied. The best treatment seems to be simply the application of jheat, and ostepathic treatments. 1 would also suggest the use of a fast- ing and dieting regime, instructions for which I will be glad to mail to you. Is Leprosy Curable? Question—Ralph K. writes: “I have suffered for years with a bad case of eczema. My body was almost entirely covered with scales, and no remedy seemed to help me. Since taking the fasting and diet treatment which you recommended I have been entirely cured. What I want to know is, could not leprosy be cured in the same way?” Answer—I have not had the chance to treat a case of leprosy, but several cures have been reported by physical culturists who understand the fasting j cure and have given this treatment to cases with which they came in con- tact. I would be glad to get in touch with anyone suffering from a truc case of leprosy, as I am eager to dem- onstrate my belief that leprosy can be Nera if the blood stream is made erfectly pure through fasting and dieting. d “Only 30 years ago a speed of 10 ‘miles an hour was deadly and the | automobile was a laughing stock. To- day 20,000,000 passenger cars ope: ate on American roads, and so de- Pendable is the mechanism of control that travel by automobile is as rapid faa a coat gaa! fio by rail."—Al- . Swayne, vi ident of General Motors. ai see “My philosophy is that in an or- ganization every executive must be granted authority commensurate with his responsibilities. If you hold a man responsible for results, he must have every reasonable freedom to ex- ercise his own brains to achieve the results expected.”—Andrews W. Rob- ertson, chairman Westinghouse Elec- tric company. noe. Magazine.) * * “We adore the ladies. That is only adore your .”—Rene Paux, for- eign editor Le Temps. * * * “Intelligence and personality are of little value without health. We rather Prefer men we employ to have a healthy ini "—W. to hy interest in some. sport. FANNY SAYS: U8 PAT.