The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1929, Page 4

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Aly rights of republication of all other matter herein are | also reserved. eT Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS Bureau of Circulation (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State an@ County Newspaper) CONFUSION SYMPTOM OF ILLS The ability to see beneath the surface of current events | is one of the most valuable bits of equipment a can have in this modern world. Being valuable, rare; and that, no doubt, is the reason for confusion which grips people today—confusion that is re- flected in such diverse things as politics and the drama, iterature and the school room. ‘Thus we have had a rather bewilder: ing the last few years. Innumerable boo! to show the “hollowness’” of modern writers, in platoons, explain that our curren’ is rapidly stifling eve: ing that is fair and lovely. citizens demand that we join the League of Nations, or ery that we should scrap our army and navy forthwit! others, with louder voices, curse league as an invel tion of unreliable Europeans and demand that we build the greatest navy on earth. Marriage is crumbling, says one group; marriage ought to crumble, says another. An eminent lawyer goes about offering to prove that man is @ soulless machine; a college professor follows after, dem- | onstrating that we need a new conception of God. So it goes, day in and day out, extremely confusing and often rather tiresome. Obviously, a great many peo- ple, including many of those to whom we naturally look for intellectual and moral guidance, are greatly upset about something. What, in the name of Heaven, is an ordinary mortal, who wants to be reasonably optimistic ‘and sunny about everything, to think of it all? ‘There is an underlying reason for all this shouting and murmuring, of course; and it may be that we won't go far wrong if we blame most of it on the World war. To be sure, the war has been over for 10 years, and we have been trying all those 10 years to forget it. But its real effects, nevertheless, are only beginning to appear. ‘The changes in national boundaries and the fall of dynasties were not the really important things that the ‘war accomplished. Most of us did not anticipate the war. It came as a frightful surprise. For a long time it fairly struck us dumb. It was too stupendous and too awful for us to understand. ‘Then, gradually, came the realization that there must have been something dreadfully wrong with our mod- ern civilization to make such a war possible. The war was the logical, inevitable outgrowth of the kind of social, economic and intellectual lives we had been leading. It was something that came upon mankind because man- kind had not been wise or unselfish or noble enough to foresee it or avoid it. Is it any wonder, then, that so many people are con- vinced that something is radically wrong with modern life? Somehow we have got to start on a new tack. It may be a long time before we discover just what that new tack may be. Meanwhile we will continue to have a confusion of counsel, with fretful people crying out against every- thing from marriage to mass production. But all of this surface confusion is encouraging. It at least means that People are beginning to demand a new deal. SCHOOLS FOR ALL Practical men have long ceased to sneer at the educa- tional theorists. What were once trades have become professions. A firm grounding in theory is recognized as a valuable preparation for the mastery of special tech- nique. In Paris recently there was uncovered a “Manual for Mendicants.” It deals with appropriate panhandling methods for specific occasions, such as baptisms, funerals and marriages. This seems like another triumph for applied psychology. Human behaviorism is obviously not the same at the font, the altar and the grave. To achieve results the “prospect” must be studied as an individual and in his environment. For years there has been talk of schools for janitors, traffic policemen and kitchenette cooks. Coarse rule-of- thumb methods accounted for the moderate success that attended early efforts of prohibition agents, but that was done away with when a school for the training of dry smoopers was established. Perhaps the school confers the degree of bachelor of alcoholism upon its graduates. Bince professional men are commonly supposed to be more thorough than tradesmen, the public is in favor of fostering the elevation of trades to professions. Thorough- ness is an@ncommon virtue, especially among student ‘sutomobile mechanics and apartment house coal heavers. THE NARROW TRAVELER ‘You often hear that the constant increase in foreign travel will help make people “better acquainted” with other nations and will advance the cause of permanent world peace. But Prof. Bernard Fay, writing in the Yale Review, disagrees with this viewpoint. Casual tour- ists, he says, can never help bring about international 3 spectacle dur- are written . Magazine understanding. “They take around the world an uncompromising na- thonalist spirit, and they bring back, carefully packed and for wear, distrust or contempt,” he writes. “In so to know or enjoy one another, the new trans- | T judge, 25 pounds, so twisted that I could neither stand frowns on cradles for babies, just as it does on walking the floor with them when they cry, or solacing them with rubber mouth plugs, or permitting them to sugk their thumbs. While these things are undesirable for babies, they may be useful for a much older generation. It would be in line for the general trend of the age toward an inter- change of functions an@ rights betwcen the generations. Today, for instance, ft is not the old who are hard- boiled. but the young. Modern youth, as may be discov- cred by consulting any available commencement oration, is clear-eyed about life, free from illusion, given to prob- ing and questioning and down upon mythology in gen- eral. It is the old who cling pathctically to the fairy tales. This process, carried a step further, gives us the oscil- lating bed for elderly scientists, while youth sieeps on a hygienically hard bed without a pillow. A professor of physics, rocked to sleep to the croon of a lullaby from the radio, perhaps a “pacifier” in his mouth, and com- ning in his dream with electronic angels, would be proof that science and spirit are friends. PRISON PROGRESS In 1844 a prisoner in an American jail wrote: “The first 24 hours I was loaded with trons weighing, up. lie down or sleep. We had the dirty, damp floor and one backless chair to sit or sleep on. Vermin of all sorts abounded; lice, roaches, bedbugs by the thousands, fleas, weascls, red ants and moths.” In 1923 a federal prison inspector wrote of an American jail: “The county allows no mattresses and only one blanket to a prisoner. The prisoner either sleeps on the hard iron of the cots or on the cement floor. I am certain that the entire place had not seen a broom or a mop in 25 years. Vermin, it goes without saying, are everywhere.” There have been instances in the present year of in- humane treatment of prisoners either by keeping them imprisoned in neglected cells or through the brutality of keepers. But these cases are the exception. On the whole, the jails and penitentiaries of the United States are clean and reasonably comfortable, even to the point of in- spiring the criticism that prison life has lost its terrors for the criminal. Though the American people may dep- recate treatment which seems to make prisons too toler- | able to serve as a crime deterrent, they will not tolerate mistreatment, brutality and unsanitary, unhealthy quar- ters, More money was expended last year for cosmetics or chewing gum than was given to educational institutions. Our money goes for that which we want most. Matrimony is made compulsory in Turkey, which seems like a strange proceeding in view of the eagerness of some Turks to take numerous wives, —— There are many dreadful diseases, but one of the most dangerous things to have is the price of an operation. The road leading to Easy street is littered with the trimmed remains of easy marks. Editorial Comment ICELAND'S THOUSAND YEARS (Duluth Herald) Representative Burtness of North Dakota recently in- troduced a joint resolution authorizing the president to accept the invitation of the government of Iceland to participate in the celebration there next year of the thousandth anniversary of the establishment of the Ice- landic parliament, the althing. To a nation that has only lately celebrated its sesqui- centennial, the spectacle of a neighbor nation that is about to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of its organized government is very interesting, and congress ought by all means to adopt Mr. Burtness’s resolution, which provides that a special delegation of five repre- sentatives of the American people shall be sent there. Iceland's parliament was established in 930, only a short time after the Norsemen effected a permanent set- tlement there, and not long before Leif, son of Eric the Red, voyaged to “Vinland,” which is supposed to have been somewhere on the coast of what is now Massachu- | setts. Though its powers have changed, as a body the althing has persisted ever since, and lately it achieved a state of almost complete autonomy, though it is subject, like the Danish parliament, to the king of Denmark. Iceland is not only a comparatively near neighbor, but it has contributed a very interesting strain to America’s immigration. Mr. Burtness’s resolution says that there are forty thousand people of Icelandic descent in this country and Canada. A good many of them are in Min- nesota and North and there are sections, as in Lyon county, where they predominate. A parliament that is a thousand years old ix a spec- tacle worth noticing in this changing world, and this country will no doubt be very glad to join the Icelanders in their notable celebration next year. MINORITIES AND CULTURE (New York Times) With unflagging zeal Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann continue to labor for a reconciled Europe. The latest services rendered by them relate to the diffi- cult problem of racial minorities. The agreement reached at the Madrid meeting of the council of the League of itigns does not exactly dazzle by its boldness, but in several respects the way has been made easier for plain- tiff minorities without creating excessive resentment THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 6 1929 [Wonder ifit’sasTicklishasItLooks? | is, of course, only to give relief and is not an attempt at cure. Our great- est hope is to prevent tumors or can- cers by living so that there is no opportunity for their formation. Our best defense is in proper eating, vig- otous exercise, and keeping our vital- ity and endurance up to the highest level for functional efficiency. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question—M. S. K. asks: “Will you Please tell us How to treat a child with whooping cough, and how long a time should he be kept out of school, and how can these children’s diseases be Answer—All children’s diseases are Preventable if the child is brought up with the proper habits. Once whooping cough has been well de- veloped, it is a serious disorder and needs the diligent personal care of a and} physician. In my practice I have found the most effective treatment to be with a series of short fasts of three or four days each, with the chiid eating a light diet in between cach fast. It will sometimes take sevcral weeks to produce a complete cure. Hot applications over the chest are helpful, and also deep manipulation of the spine and muscles of the upper Peo-| back. A physician's certificate is us- ually necessary before a child will be allowed to return to school. man, third, of the liver fourth, tongue fifth, Sen oe Sat nh eee : | comely divorcee” who is suing wealthy | earth is flat and he offers $5,000 to | oil man Franklin S. Hardinge for a] anyone who can convince him that quarter of a million dollars in aj it’s round. There's a nice job for breach of promise suit, told the jury | somebody. se | that her fiance gave her $100 to buy him a wedding gift. H. G. Wells says mankind must be freed of illusions before war will end. Shrieks of merriment from the house, of course. But it’s no funnier | But there will always be people who will bet on the horses. than the Christmas present bought (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Che DAY... If you are a wife you will, perhaps, be interested in, and you will cer- tainly be angry at some observations | for gift-giving if not from their sup- made on domestic women by “A Man Borers, whe Mery ones whom they Who Dares Not Sign His Name,” in! might like to remember with gifts? a current magazine article entitled nee “You—As I See You.” PRETTY GIRLS He enumerates some wifely errors] Color television was demonstrated as: always enjoying poor health, al- | before the world the other day when ways being tired, forever finishing the | the telephone company, holding the dishes, always having the children | patent sent out the picture of a pret- around, contracting the kimono habit, | ty girl holding an orange and pine- going in for delicatessen meals, al- apple and other objects of high color. ways picking things up, always filling) “just what would the commercial the house with relatives, not getting | world do without pretty girls to dem- around to tidying things up. getting | onstrate each : into that after - marriage slump, and! Prete Ga cactigane Cvery necessary 0: losing their husbands. rare sk * a THESE GIRLS! ARCHAIC Anyway, somebody's glad about the Somehow this list of wifely faults) punctured romance of Don Luis and sounds fearfully archaic. Has any-| Mrs, Corey, and that somebody is the one seen a wife slouching about in @| former fiancee of the prince. And kimono for some time? And the wife | what a good time she now has mak- who is “forever finishing the dishes or | ing comments at the jilted lady, and tidying up” seems strangely converted ; now she glories in telling that she into a would-be-going lady who piles knew all the time it would never go] tion of vermin without a shudder. her dishes in the sink. { through, and was mere “business” as | They should bring hearty appetites to And did you ever spot so Sood an ‘contrasted with her own romance with | beef steak or lamb chop. example of the selfish male? He the prince. If we preach the sentimental doc- picks on only those faults which a Wize goils! trine of the sacredness of all life the fect his own tranquillity. { He proceeds to lambast the famous !——pares 1 Pesngp canes Renee =e a “nervous housewife,” digging forth BARBS ments and our practice. It is best to that old wheeze that in this day of electrical conveniences there is no! @ | be realistic in the first place. At the need for any woman to find house-: The way these collegiate shells are keeping a burden. sinking in the big races these days, 2s * maybe we ought to have Captain IS ZAT 80? | Pried come over and superintend the To which the only answer is “Try j affairs. it.” I have noted, too, that the very se * gentlemen who take all the modern | A small town is one where the ed- conveniences as a matter of course in' itor remembers that a train was five their own businesses and offices are | hours late six a — yesterday. the ones who see no reason why such gim-cracks as electrical saving de-| If President Hoover wants dollar-a- vices should be included in their own | year men for his farm board, he ought, to be able to find any number of homes. Such things as electric cige, aret lighters and percolators and waf- | farmers willing to accept a lucrative Position such as that. se father and charged at her favorite store. And funny, or not, just how are wageless women to procure money (By Alice Judson Peale) ‘The spectacle of a cat playing with @ mouse is not a pretty one. Instinetively most of us would shield a young child from the sight of anything so cruel. But few of us are altogether clear in our minds as to the attitude we wish to assume in re- lation to cruelty as it must inevitably touch the life of any child. We want our children to respect life, to show a decent consideration for creatures weaker and more help- less than they. But we do not want them to be sentimental or quixotic. They should accept the extermina- aig i FE § He gess, of alley City. erica. The protective theory has| Miss Lillian Thrams is spending her blessed America. If the free trade | vacation with friends in Grand Forks. theory were now put into operation if would America.”—Sen- ator Shortridge of California. 71S sess cb eels] ANY a now dictatorship strengthened een ee wwe ys own minds. We must admit that only to the human race is life at all sacred. In the relative security which we have won for ourselves on earth we can perhaps afford a few generous gestures and a sensible, altrustic kind- liness to creatures less powerful than ‘This, reduced to the sim- plest terms and concrete situations, the child readily can understand. He will be fle irons and toasters are different, because they contribute to his own enjoyment. Remember the famous * {A justice of the New York supreme old short story called “The Revolt of | court seemed surprised that a man Mother,” about the nice new barn for actually believed his wife had be- the cattle and the rickety old house | witched him into marriage. Oh, but for mother? | they do, judge! s* * ssf HOW ELSE? Wilbur Glenn Voliva returns from Ann Livingston, described as “the{a world tour believing that the Hf E Ef i i E i Hl F | 3 8 Hf i H iG . is a fine it goes toward making among the defendant sovereign states. The changes at Madrid are chiefly in the line of greater publicity for aggrieved minorities; and essentially it is only by the acai of world opinion that the League can oper- ate, Quite aside from the minority rights guaranteed in the peace treaties and the intervention of the League for their enforcement, there is ground for believing that the problem is bound to work itself out automatically with the years. This is suggested by the radical change which has taken place in the cultural level of minorities since the war. 'S pre-war minorities stood, as a rule, well below their majority masters in urban development. The Germans in Poland and the Baltic States considered themselves the superiors of the Slav masses. The ruling German and Magyar elements in the Hapsburg monarchy held the same views, though with less reason. Now that the mighty have been put down from the Central Euro- Pean thrones and the former minorities are the ruling The Germans in |. majorities, the situation is reversed. notorious cases of “minority” strife are not minority Problems at all in the accepted sense. The Germans in Poland and the Tyrol present a typical example of a minority. But at the present moment the most acute minority situation in Europe is the conflict between the Croats and their racial brethren, the majority Serbs, in the Yugoslavian kingdom. Last year the greatest ten- sion was in Rumania, between the “ ie of Transylvania and the ihhabitants of the old kingdom. In_ both instances probably the dominant factor is the sense ot on superiority. 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