The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 4

Pee Seeds sees ae eee a eae afc ra PAGE FOUR i The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDES1 NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. B13- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck fas second class mai! matter. George D. Mann ................President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year .. Daily by mail, per year ‘in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year, (in state, outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . 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CHICAGO BOSTON NEW YORK (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE POWER OF BUSINESS A French druggist who operates a little store in the Algerian town of Bistra, on the edge of the Sahara desert, is doing one of the most effective bits of mission- ry work in the world, according to the monthly maga- zine, The American Druggist. ‘The magazine explains that rather surprising state- men’ in this way: ‘The druggist’s customers are almost without exception Gesext folk—wandcring Arab tribesmen, Moslems to a man, brought up in a society where ignorant priests try to cure diseases by incantations and mystic rites. These people, secing the things that the drug store's Froducts will do, are rapidly being weaned away from their superstition. They are learning that modern medi- cir- can heal a sore throat better than the mumbo- jumbo mutterings of a sorcerer, and that a scorpion’s bite is better treated with a scalpel and disinfectant than with the wand-waving incantations of a direct descendant of Allad’s prophet. This druggist, accordingly, whose sole purpose in locat- ing in Biskra is to make moncy, is actually pushing back the shadows of darkness from an ancient section of the earth and helping mightily in the never-ending war on superstition. Our modern world is pretty well- commercialized; and this commercialization is carrying everything before it. Old superstitions, old customs, old ways of living and old ‘ways of thought—all are falling, faster and faster, before the advance of the merchant and the manufacturer. Look at it from this angle: American exporters are laying vast plans for “culti- vating the Chinese market,” as they put it. They know that China is, potentially, a very rich land that could buy huge quantities of goods. But before they can sell to China, they must help China get on her feet. So loans are being made available to China. Rail- toads are being laid down, good roads are being built, government officials are being helped to provide better housing conditions, farmers are being shown how to ret the most out of their land. ‘The business men who are doing these things don't care tspecially about the well-being of the Chinese. They simply want a better market for their goods. But the upshot will be that China will be a better place to live in. It will Mave less misery, less poverty, less stag- nation. In a@ few decades it will advance farther than \t has in many centuries. You could find similar trends all over the earth The fot of the ordinary man is being made better. ‘He is being set free from ignorance, penury, superstition—not because the world has suddenly grown kind-hearted and noble, but simply because business is moving that way. KING OF SPORTS ‘When a sport is so entrancing that it calls man away from his sleep for the greater part of the night, hypno- tizes him into making a long automobile drive, keeps him going throughout the chill, sunless early morning hours in mist-covered, wind-blown swamps, lakes and woods, and then sends him back to town, tired, sleepy, wet, bedraggled, and yet able to do a day's work despite these sacrifices and labors, there must be something to that sport that hasn't been fully fathomed. Doesn't the title of king of American sports belong to fishing rather than to baseball? The diamond game is, to be sure, more organized and spectacular, but wouldn't @ national census show more files cast than flies caught in a season? While rabid, the baseball fan does not com- pare with the true disciple of Izaak Walton in his mania for his beloved recreation. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have brought new prestige to the gentle art of angling, and their patron- age of the art has made them brothers to a large fra- ternity. While former President Coolidge was a fair- ‘weather, vacation fisherman, his successor seems to be a fiend for the sport. Izaak Walton would have gloried in ® Convert who discarded a luxurious yacht for rod and reel and who prefers to spend his week-ends along a mountain stream rather than in the white house gardens and drawing room. CITY PEOPLE SLEEP, TOO ‘The big city may be wild and wicked in the imagina- tion of those who live far from it, a place where the in- habitants spend their nights carousing and their morn- Sleeping off hangovers. But in the records of com- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ing and just loafing, and the American home is a heuse hold divided between vacationing in the mountains or at the seashore, with mother's people or with father's people, economically or extravagantly, on the go or in the hammock. Probably the incvitable vacation debate provides the entering wedge of discord and incompatibility in more happy homes than does the idle roomer or night out with the boys. However, there is one thing might well give thanks. There is complete and abso- lute agreement that all should take a vacation and that anything but work. AN EMPTY,HEADED ‘HERO’ It is hard to work up any great amount of admiration | for the lad who stowed himself away on the transat- ‘ oe piane Yellow Bird. | ‘To be sure, he had plenty of nerve. But he didn't seem to have the brains to balance it; and when too much courage goes hand in hand with scarcity of common | co» + “ne result is apt to be rather distressing. iimit of satety, this empty-headed youngster put the lives of three brave men in extreme danger. The added weight that his presence gave the plane prevented the French- men from reaching Paris, as they had planned; it might well have brought they down in the middle of the ocean. Here's hoping that no one will try to make a fuss over this youth, so that he will get the idea that he t< a hero. A good old-fashioned session in the woodshed with an | irate parent is about what his case seems to call for. ENMITY THAT WON’T HURT President Hoover scems to have the odd notion that a man must have some genuine legal and mental qualifi- cations in order to be appointed to the federal judiciary. The president has aroused the ill-will of a number ,of party leaders recently because of this notion of his. They have a way of recommending party hacks for appoint- ment—men, often, who have no more business on the bench than so many mechanics. Because President Hoo- ver 'qnoz-s their wishes, they are filling the air with protests. makes. Using that measuring stick, the American people will presently be giving President Hoover even more of their esteem and admiration than he already has. For {> presidents we remember the longest and most fondly are gencrally the ones who made enemies of the political old “ard, My Most of the big fortunes are in bonds, industry and litigation. Editorial Comment MR. YOUNG SAVES THE REPARATION CONFERENCE (Minneapolis Tribune) It now looks as if the remarkable ingenuity, rcsource- fulness, and patience of Owen D. Young may have saved the day for the reparations conference. Again and again the Allied group, on the one hand, and the Germans, on the other, have reached a deadlock; and always it has been Mr. Young who prevented the delegates from going home by bringing up some fresh proposal. Between the Allicd minimum demand of about $10,000,000,000 and the German maximum offer of about $6,000,000,000 there was an apparently unbridgeable gap. Mr. Young's latest proposal, and one which seems to have gained the consent of both sides, is that payments repre- senting a present value of $8,800,000,000 be accepted. There will be many quarrels over details, of course, and much bickering and fiddling before an arrangement in its entirety is worked out, but the general belicf. is that the basic compromise has been achieved. Some day a biographer will do justice to Owen D. Young. He was the man who had the most to do with the articulation and the acceptance of the Dawes plan. He did an incredible amount of brilliant work in keeping the Allies and the Germans together at the time that pro- visional arrangement was agreed upon. The Dawes plan gave Europe temporary relief from the danger of a con- tinuation of th: Franco-German war and served its pur- pose admiri in furnishing Europe with a “cooling-off” Period. It was thought that this spring an effort should be made to dispense with the Dawes plan, never con- sidered anything but a temporary arrangement, and ef- fect a permanent liquidation of the Allied-German repar- ations difficulties. Again Mr. Young has been the con- ciliator, the initiator of new compromise solutions, the fertile neutral, the flexible bystander. He has consist- ently refused to accept defeat, and he has never been willing to concede that the differences of opinion were insuperable. He has had to deal with angry statesmen backed by an inflamed popular opinion; but he has un- failingly found some means of calming down the ruffled tempers and leading the infuriated disputants back to the atmosphere of reasonableness. ‘We should not treat the reparations conference as an assured success, because possibilities for discord still remain. But the outlook is the most promising it yet has been; and whatever we say of the conference, we can say that Owen Young has proved himself one of the most extraordinary unofficial diplomats that America has ever sent abroad. In view of what he has done for Europe, Europe owes him a monument. America can content it- self with the satisfaction that, through its knowledge of Owen Young, Europe will have to admit that the Amer- ican business man is considerably more than a Babbitt. A LONG GETHSEMANE ENDED (Minneapolis Journal) Mary Copley Thaw, who died at her Pittsburgh home early this month at the age of 86, was a remarkable wo- man. She was a leading figure in philanthropy and civic enterprise, best known by her heart-breaking struggle to save her son after his murder of Stanford White in 1906. Mrs. Thaw came of an old and celebrated family. her father, the grandson of the American painter, John Sin- gleton Copley, and nephew of Lord Lyndhurst, was one of the pioneer editors of western Pennsylvania. Her :us- band, William Thaw, a leading financier, died in 1889 leaving an estate of $100,000,000. Mrs. Thaw’s gifts to various charities reached tar into the millions. She was one of the founders and builders of the Third Presbyter- jan church in Pittsburgh and took a deep interest in the Mission House in the same city. When crops failed in Nebraska, in 1894, she distributed sced to the farmers. She rendered assistance to Samucl P. Langley in his researches in aviation and sent many contributions to tne impoverished European peoples in the World war. The great tragedy of her life was her son’s murder of Stanford White. She fought his cause through six trials, five ha‘veas corpus proceedings and three sanity hearings, over almost two decades, with every mental and financial resource at her disposal. Throughout four months in 1907 she sat unfalteringly beside him daily, and gave testi- mony. Even District Attorney William Travers Jerome said to the jury, “No one would believe that this woman would lie, not even to save the life of a beloved son.” Year after year, she was constantly at his side. and when he came home to Lyndhurst in July, 1925, she awaited him in the first white dress she had worn since the day of the murder. In the shadow of this tragedy, the weman was lost in podbot ofits recent naar of a little poetical pe- cal ie Harp, Virginia Spates writes the of tne mother of Judas: ged for which the nation | as much of the summer as possible should be devoted to By climbing into a plane, already loaded to the very | | A man can generally be judged by the enemics he “Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight? | THERE , THERE, MA! -- DONT worry! HE'S | PROBABLY JUST GonE DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE. “HELL BE BACK BY SUPPERTIME ! THERE, THERE, MA!-- 3 DONT WoRAN! HES PROBABLY JUST HOPPED OFF FOR PARIS! --HELL BE BACK BY SuPPERTIME! It's a safe wager that more people will be interested in the tale of two little children who fell out of seventh and fifth story apartment house win- dows in New York the other day-and will live, than in any other items in the day's news. The majority of adults are par- ents. The majority of parents have the normal instinctive concern for their childven. Also the instinctive fears. Hope given any of these fears to the effect that little children can fall that far and still live means much. * ok * MA WOULDN'T DO IT The father of eight children. an Ohio farmer, has been missing from his home for several days. If it w the mother of eight, no one would ever dream of interpreting her ab- sence as perhaps a final putting into execution of the long simmering feel- ing that the responsibility was too ereat and she had to get out—couldn't stand it any longer. Deserting fathers are too common to wonder at. Deserting mothers are a rarity. * * * MAMMAS EXPLOITED Here we have a picture of Paul Whiteman, jazz king, attired in chef's apron, handing his mother a sample of raw biscuit dough from the pan of mixture he has made in her kitchen of his old home wher he is visiting. It reminds us of demands put upon the mothers of illustrious sons these days. How they are exploited for those prevailing “human interest pics.” Still, to be the mother of an illustrious son makes one immun> from pity. It’s the one thing for which most women live. *** * BLAME THE MAN And here's a picture of Eva Cofer 21-year-old mountain lass, on trial fo1 beating to death one Lee Athley of Georgetown, Tenn., who hugged her. T have little doubt that she'll be ac- ; changed | sweetest joy, a symphony would fil | pening and can never hold up her head in pride again. * ok Ok PITY OR ENVY ;__And here's a picture of 15-year-old. Mrs. Amy Hoffman of New York and her tiny Caesarian - born twins. The dyed-in-the-wool feminist will look upon Amy with pity because her jlife work, and a hard one, is mapped {out for her at so young an age. The mother of children will envy her for | her great happiness. UOTATIONS | "T have no sympathy whatever with this wholesale decrying of the tendencies of youth. ‘The young peo- } and grand and good; neither are th: jthe last word in mental depravit ‘They are mixed like the rest of us."— ; Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown, dean emeritus of Yale Divinity School. * ok Ok | “Prosperity is necessary for a country and so is patriotism, but ; Neither is sufficient to make a coun- try really great unless it also has a heart and soul.”—Lady Astor. H x oe * “Yes; if all of a mother's sacrifices to sorrow, sin and pain could be into the melodies of her ; the sky."—Senator Goff, West Vi ginia. ; ye OR | “After many years of contention lave at last made a constructive at agricultural relief with the important measure ever passed ngiess in aid of a single indus- | try."—President Hoover. i * * i “No man is happy if his home ap- ip to be something of the neuter gender."—Ramsay MacDonald. xk * “Facts are our scarcest raw mater- ~-vwen D. xoung, reparations ex- ert for United States commission. SHOCKS SPEED SEZD London—A new meihoa vu. treat jing seed introduced here employs ‘electricity. The seed are soaked in water for about 20 minutes. They ple are not everything that is great) THE CARE OF PETS (By Alice Judson Peale) “Alice was eight years old a month ago, and for her birthday I gave her | a puppy with the understanding that she was to take care of him herself. But already I have-to remind her about feeding him. | “I suppose she is too young to have a dog. But she seemed so eager that I thought she really would live up to her promise. Perhaps I ought to give | him away now that she has failed to ; keep up her end of the bargain.” ; No eight-year-old child will re- member faithfully to feed even a well loved pet every day, day after day. Young children simply are not cap- able of that sort of thing and we should not expect it of them. Even high school boys and girls find it hard to perform a task so steady and ever | recurring. | Any child who loves his pet and | plays with it deserves to keep it even if a good share of the time he does ‘forget to feed him. When you give | your child a pet, make up your mind ; that the job of caring for it often will {fail tg you. { Yo may remind your youngster to feed his dog or to clean the rabbit hutch, but there is nothing to be ! gained by nagging him about it. Just | comfort yourself with the thought ; that, being a child, he cannot help j being childishly irresponsible. Tell ; Yourself that the fun your youngster has is compensation for the extra | work that falls your way. Remember that gvhile it is good to j try to cultivate a sense of responsibil- | ity in the young, you cannot do it all ‘at once. { To the child the value of having pets is not in learning responsibility, but in deriving from them a natural leasure. NEEDS INTERPRETER Sapulpa, Okla.—Of all the humans :in this country that need pity, Guy ‘Martinez is probably one of the most ‘deserving. Guy is a Frenchman re- (cently arrived in this oil town. His quitted. We are still enough of an'are then placed on a zine plate, sub-' love for his mother tongue has kept old-fashioned world to believe that the man is always to blame for dar, ing to lay finger upon the fair perso of a lass, and that she has been gross- ly insulted and abused by the hap- SAY FAREWELL To MY FOR ME, AS I CANNOT BEAR TO SEE HER IN “TEARS fur aw MY WORD, we WHAT A DIFFERENCE A STEP ACROSS THE THRESHOLD CAN MEAN AT TIMES, —~ A WALK 10 “THE TOBACCO SHOP FoR A PERFECTO,.- OR “THE START OF A SOURNEY AROUND “HE WORLD fae {jected to a high frequency curren! (and rolled with a grass roller. plots planted’ yielded 50 per cent Tener than plots planted using or- dinary fertilizer. Test | im from eating as he should ever jSince he’s been here. The only Eng- lish he knows is the equivalent for j“ham and eggs.” onsequently, levery meal that he eats is “ham an’.” EGAD LADS ,wAU REVOIR 1 WIFE 4, KNow You'LL HAVE A CORKING GooD TIME | TRY to BE quer AN" RESERVED ON BOARD SHIP, So You Won't WHEN You GET-To PARIS, DON'T BUY YouR WIFE ARN HATS + TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1929 5) INFECTION FROM BEDBUGS Those people living in wooden dwellings often complain of the dif- ficulty in getting rid of bedbugs. The bedbug may live in cracks in the bed, behind the wainscoting, under loose wallpaper, and may very hard to eliminate in‘ old dwellings. Traveling men who are forced to stop in small-town hotels are fre- quently disturbed by the crawling or bite of this insect, besides disturb- ing the sleep. ‘There is real danger of infection from the bite of the bedbug or any Other insect. Every effort should be made to eliminate such dangerous sts. Irritation produced by the dbug’s bite may be alleviated with peroxide of hydrogen or tincture of iodine. Some people are more susceptible than others to insect bites. Some may sleep straight through the night, even when bitten dozens of times, and may be even unaware of the bedbug’s presence except when the sheets are stained by a crushed insect. In every case where an abrasion of the skin is found in the morning, it is a safe plan to sterilize the parts. This would be true whether the bite came from a bedbug, spider or any other insect. Those who are forced to travel and sleep in strange beds, especially in old dwellings, may not be able to do anything more than to watch for abrasions and sterilize them each time. Those who are permanently located and living in one house should either get rid of all insects, or sell the house and let someone else worry about insect troubles. It is usually possible to fumigate the house sufficiently to destroy bed. bugs, but the fumigation may have to be repeated several times, as the bedbug is a good “fasier” and can live as long as a yeer without food. It also produces as much as four broods of young in a single year. The best fumigating gas to us hydrocyanic acid, but this is very dangerous to human beings and should only be used by an expert. These expert fumigators can -(HEALTH@DIET ADVI Dr Frank Mc She Sast bley. CE, Coy QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Eye Wii ye in! Question—X. Y. Z. write: left lower eyelid seems to wink when T look at anything about five or ten minutes. Please print the cause and also the remedy.” Answer—The trouble with your eyelid is caused by nervousness, and can be cured if you will regulate your diet, increase your exercises, and build up your general bodily strength. Location of Liver Question—J. M. C. writes: “I was having an argument with a friend about the location of the liver. To settle the argument will you tell us just where it is located and what olds it in place?” Answer--The liver is located in the upper portion of the abdomen just below the diaphragm. About four-fifths of the liver is on the right, and one-fifth on the left side. The liver rests upon various abdom- inal orgazs, such es kidneys, large colon and stomach. It is also sup- ported by five strong ligaments. ‘Yhe gell bladder is attached to the lower surface of the right lobe of the liver at about the level of the ninth rib. Perspires in Sleep Question—Worried Mother writes: “My boy never wants to eat vege- tables. He always perspires ver; freely when sleeping. What can do to make him eat more wholesome foods and prevent this excessive per- spiring so he can get strong?” Answer—Your boy is weak be- cause he perspires, but because h is suffering from scme toxemia in his body. His life is really being saved because he perspires and gets rid of some of th poisons during sleep. The best way to get him to eat green vegetables is to give him a fast for a tew 's and when he be|starts eating again give him only found in any large city. Sulphur fumes may also be employed to ad- vantage, but there is the risk of in- jury to household fabrics from bleaching and of tarnishing metallic surfaces, Most drugstores also have a liquid preparation which can be speapall in the cracks or possible concealment. places, Insect powders do not seem to be of much value, but the liquid spray will usually do the work if it is used several times over a period of about six months. The bedbug or other insects often stay concealed for months at a time and unless the spray is used oc- casionally during intervals of at least six months or possibly a year, the insects are liable to come from their hiding places after the effect of the poisonous spray has worn off. aeZLUSS SSS EIGHT-HOUR DAY On June 25, 1868, congress passed a tee maxing eight hours a legal day's work. This law made eight hours a day’s work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States. The law was directory only and not penal and had little value, except that it formed an opening wedge in the fight for shorter hours for working men. Laws of 1888 directed the public printer strictly to enforce the pro- | visions of the eight-hour law in the work under his charge. A new eight-hour law was passed in 1892 limiting the hours of labor and or law can recover nothing for over- The new law applied to laborers and mechanics employed by the govern- ment of the United States or by the District of Columbia. Later, this law was amended and closely allied laws were enacted. oo | BARBS | ° ° It might not make much difference if they change the names of the months and add one more, but how in the world would we know when to eat oysters? zee Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman says dry agents are within their rights if they shoot at the tires of a suspected car. If you happen to get hit, of course, that’s just a little mistake. "#2 ® Not all the large-mouths are bass, even if they &. sage! Psat Citizen Coolidge says he doesn’t like to write. iia 3 writes. there was a young lady who nat net B28 WE . Y— resul injuries in a taxicab Howard Williams oy eed oe he spud have and you wil e wil ungry for - thing. Follow closel: e inenvs in this which appear every column, a Rises Question—H. K. asks: “Does a rise in temperature of from one- fifth to three-fifths of a de; signify any bodily disease? is tis comes sometimes in the morn- » but generally in the afternoon.” nswer—Such a slight rise in temperature does not indicate any specific disease. Most people are below normal in temperatute durin; the morning and come up to normal in the afternoon. Normal tempera- ture undoubtedly varies with dif- ferent people. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ° | Our Yesterdays 1 ’ FORTY YEARS AGO J. E. Hull, formerly of this city, but now connected with the Livingston (Mont.) Post,-is visiting here with friends, John F. Baker of St. Louis, is vis- iting his son, Capt. I. P. Baker, en route from Montana to his home. as marshal of the day during the Fourth of Ju parade. ~ Alex Fromme left for Pittsburgh, Pa., yesterday to be with his mother, who has been ill. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. Amos Robidou accompanied by her daughter went to Minneapolis to- day, where Miss Robidou will enter @ music school. Miss Helen Eaton of Rochester, Minn., is the guest of Miss Edna Win- chester. Prof. W. E. Hoover, who has been assisting with the summer school here, has returned to his home in Park River, Mrs. F. R. Smyth entertained at a luncheon ‘in honor of Miss Eaton and Miss Winchester. ‘TEN YEARS AGO A. P. Lenhart was elected Grand Master of the North Dakota grand lodge of Masons at the annual ses- sion in’ Gi Forks. rand Amond ‘thor of near Wilton is here for a few days on a business mission. C. L. Young went to Jamestown to- day to attend the commencement ex- ercise of Jamestown college, of which he is one of the trustees. Mrs. E. A. Hughes returned ie day from a tour of the Aaa southern states. FLAPPER, FA “My ’ &? 1 “& 1 ~ yn ;