The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 4

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We seem to suspect that a nation’s history can be told better by biographies, not of its great men, but of its submerged unsung nobodies—the toilers whom no on® notices but; whose uneventful lives tell the story of the building of an empire. Oddly enough, it is not the historian or the biographer who is using this method of approach to give us a new slant on our history; it 1s the novelist. The story of a negro laborer in the new south can tell as much about the recent development of that section as a two-volume sociological treatise; we can learn more of the winning of the middle west from a book like “Shadow of the Long Knives” than from half a dozen histories. +» Thus it is to a new novel, “Hunky,” that one can turn for a new glimpse of that great army of foreign-born la- borers that makes the wheels go round in our big cities. This book. by Thames Williamson, has as its hero one Jencic—an ignorant, powerful, unimaginative “hunky” who toils in poverty in the slums of a great city. Jencic is like uncounted thousands of otheys. He lives by and for his job. It is all he knows. When a strike comes he blindly follows his leader, never knowing why; when the strike ends he goes back to work again without the faint- est idea why he struck. . A friend tells him he must become an American citi- zen in order to be safe from police persecution. So he gets his “papers,” which he fondly treasures. The sig- nificance of the thing never reaches him. He is, in re- ality, a man without a country. Even his own city is strange to him. He blithely vio- lates the prohibition law without even suspecting that he is committing a crime. All he knows is his job; the job that is his one excuse for existence; the job that is the one anchor which holds him steady in a confusing and astounding world. It is because there are so many Jencics—so many, many ignorant “hunkies"—in this country that the book is, in its way, a kind of history. It opens up for us a new vista in American life. For the whole nation is built on a foundation of men iike this uncouth toiler. The mills of Detroit, Pittsburgh and Gary, the textile plants of New England, the construction gangs of the southwest, the lumber camps of the west coast—all of these come down, in the last analysis, to Jencic and his kind. You could not hope to understand America if you knew only Park avenue, Southampton, Newport and’ Bar Har- bor. No more can you understand it if you do not get some comprehension of the immigrants. The American story has many chapters. One of the least understood but most important of these is the chapter of the un- washed, unsung, all-enduring Hunky. UTOPIA AND 11 PER CENT When the bloated bondholders of a capitalistic world get wind of the latest financing program of the central executive committee at Moscow there are likely to be some strange conversions to bolshevism. Announcement. is made of government bond issues paying 11 per cent in- terest. Evidently, as between plain out-and-out capitalism and the “new economic policy” of Russia, the latter can prom- ise rewards beyond the dreams of avarice in less en- lightened countries. Just how it happens that in a com- munistic heaven there are those who have 300,000,000 rubles to invest in government bonds is best left to those who can explain the presence of a horned toad in a cor- nerstone that has been sealed 30 years. ‘That isn't what concerns the lover of mankind. His ‘one and only thought is for poor old Ivan Smithski, Rus- sian taxpayer, who will spend the next ten years digging the 11 per cent interest charges out of his jeans. And, oh, how those interest dates do roll around! John Smith, the economic slave of capitalism, knows how that is, he pays only a measly little old 4 or 5 per cent—at the most 6 per cent—to the money lenders. If Ivan Smithski hasn't more liberty than John Smith, he is being flimflammed. He is paying for more. These modern Utopias are not all they are painted up to be, and such hated capitalistic states as the United States, may, on occasion, seem the more idealistic. THE DEMAND FOR SERVICE Street. cars in Hamburg, Germany, now carry mail boxes. That is one novelty Uncle Sam has failed to in- troduce, though it is a means of speeding up communica- tion. ‘The idea is that often the letter-writer is more than willing to pay a few cents extra in postage for prompt collection and delivery. But if the letter is deposited in the trolley car box it is carried immediately to a central point adjacent to the post office or railroad station, and THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929 A QUEER WAY OF LIVING He was rather an oldish chap, and he looked pretty weather-beaten, says an exchange. beard was unkempt, the khaki breeches and shirt badly travel-stained, the leathery skin on his face was criss- | crossed with wrinkles. His outfit was almost grotesque. He pushed a dilap- | idated baby buggy. It was a tangle of baggage—bundles tied with string, containing, no doubt, extra clothing and such-like. But the leading feature was an enormous book that was strapped on top. It was a giant among books. A foot thick and twice | as long—bigger than the biggest unabridged dictionary, by far—it was, obviously, the king-piece of the whole bag- gage train. The man laboriously lifted it to a table and | proudly opened it. The pages were covered with sig- natures—signatures of mayors, of governors, of editors, of authors, of cabinet members, of ambaszadors, of every The stubby gray | A Few More Big ‘Bills’ We'd Like to See Reduced Next! kind of dignitary and near dignitary known to a complex | civilization. | “I've got signatures from all over the world,” he said | proudly. “I've walked all over—Europe, America, Asia. | India, everywhere. And everywhere I went I got sig-| natures in this book. Now if you'll just sign your name Tl be moving on.” | The signature duly affixed, the old chap shut the book, | placed it in the buggy, and started off down the street— a hunched, bent-over figure, cdd in its outlandish garb, moving steadily down the busy street to some distant trail ; leading to no one could imagine where. | That was his life. He had been doing it for years, and | would continue to do it until he died. And it struck an | observer that this man’s way of spending his time was | about the oddest he had ever encountered. Yet in the long run, it may be that this man’s life is no more queer than the lives of most of us. We haven't, any of us, a very long time on this planet. There are only a few years in which we can make the most of our talents. exercise our faculties for enjoyment and experience, make life mean something worth having. Yet we do not seem to realize it. We slip carelessly into jobs we do not particularly care about, persuade our- selves that they are important, spend all of our energies doing things that don’t really matter to us—and, pres- ently, find that the whole performance is about over, with most of the things we really wanted to do left un- done. So maybe the old chap with the baby buggy and the book of autographs, isn’t so cracked as we think. At any rate, he is doing the one thing he wants to do, however aimless or pointless that may seem. And that is a great deal more than most men can say. MOVING FAST ON BICYCLES Grover Whalen, New York's highly advertised police commissioner, not long ago got a good deal of fun out of the fact that the London police still use bicycles in mak- ing their daily rounds. He seemed to feel that this com- pared rather poorly with the snappy, fast moving motor- cycles of the American cop. However, the London officers seem to travel faster on bicycles than our American police can go on their motor- cycles, At any rate— During 1928 there were just 18 murders in London. The Police solved every one. Eleven of the murderers were arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced, and the other seven committed suicide. Compare those figures—not with New York's, for the contrast would be too staggering; with some lesser city, like Kansas City, for instance. Kansas City, in 1928, had 105 murders. Twenty-three murderers were tried, con- victed and sentenced; five were acquitted; and the rest seem to have escaped molestation altogether. Any American police official who laughs at the London force is showing extremely poor judgment. MUSCLE SHOALS AN OLD ISSUE If you think that the question of what to do with the vast water power resources at Muscle Shoals is a prob- lem confined to post-war years, you're sadly mistaken. It was one of the earliest problems raised in our national life. Records of the American Philosophical society, in Phil- adelphia, show that the question arose as far back as 1802. In that year, the society's minutes :show the fol- lowing entry: “Donations: a plan for Mussel Shoals, Tennessee. Mr. Vaughn appointed to obtain from Sam Brown, of Lex- ington, some further account of it for publication.” Unfortunately, the record ends there, so there is no way of telling whether the early philosophers favored government operation or outright sale to the Henry Ford of that period. Preacher who says that a few pews of good-looking young women will draw young men to church evidently has observed the operation of cause and effect. EES eae ie | Editorial Comment | HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT (Century Magazine) The relative importance of heredity and home influence has recently been tested by Miss Burks in California. She | compared the resemblances in intelligence of 200 chil- | dren with their foster parents, and of 100 children in | the same schools with their true parents. | The foster children had been adopted at an average | age of three months, so that home environment had had @ fair chance. There was no definite relation between the intelligence rating of a child and its foster father. | The influence of the foster mothers, though marked, was far less than that of the true fathers or mothers. There is a vast amount of further evidence to the same effect, for example, as to the great intellectual di- versity of children in the same orphanage. ‘There is much less evidence with regard to moral char- acter. No doubt some of the basal traits which deter- mine it, such as quickness of response, are inherited; but it probably depends to a considerable extent on environ- ment, whether the quick tempered child will develop into | @ fury or a kindly but impulsive person, the calmer per- | sonality into a heartless or a benevolent one. | This is largely a matter of common sense. Everyone knows that you can influence character far more easily | than intelligence. That is why we apply Physical or moral suasion to bad boys, but not to stupid ones unless | we think they are lazy. But common sense is borne out by what little scientific evidence exists, | DO NOT FORGET THEM | «Washington Star) | During the hot days householders should never forget | that thirst afflicts their pet animals as well as them-| selves. | or Tom must depend upon the human friends to to it that he has a good drink. Both dogs and cats drink ‘more in warm weather than in cold, and it more difficult to secure water. years great stress was placed upon watering the sul . This need still exists for work the main the attention should be placed to- that an adequate supply of water is avail- EL Hae F 3 i ts, while ostensibly belonging to the older folks for their care. work, mother is Hi ij g “ALLENE SUMNER, The current airplane “endurance tests” are a bit puzzling to the aver- age woman psychology. Accustomed as women, especially wives, are to see- ing men. especially husbands, per- form feats without rhyme or reason, it is no wonder that they find them- selves assuming that papa just wants to have a good time doing stunts, rather than swallowing platitudes about “the furtherance of aviation,” etc. You can hardly blame their doubt. Men, especially modern men, do not demand objectives as women do. If it’s fun to pull an endurance test or knock a little ball about the sod, what | care they for results? Women do not play with their whole soul. They insist on “doing things.” Contrast the club life of men and women. Men use their clubs as pleas- ant social centers. Women use theirs as centers for serious organization, such as banding together to raise funds for starving something or oth- ers. | | NEWS: “USA“TREASURY CUTS SIZE OF CURRENCY ---=. oo- NEW BULLS TWO-THIRDS, FORMER SIZE“ They will split in two parties; one “doing” northern Europe, the other southern. They may not know it, but this trip will make more demands on their dis- Positions and characters than the most odious demands of business. It’s one thing to have a delayed ship- ment of goods, and it's another thing to be all ready to set forth to Ste the Sistine Madonna and have to wait for 49 other she-males to be collected from bathrooms and bedrooms and stores, Ask me. I've watched women’s par- tles abroad and thanked my Maker I was traveling less gregariously, xk * MORE CREDIT LOST But here's an exploded feminine myth. Arm in arm with the credo of “feminine intuition” has always been the twin sister idea that women were such splendid judges of character. Now comes one Dr. J. P. Guilford of the University of Nebraska who, finishing an experiment tending to have both men and women judge character from pictures of faces! given them, says that girls did no better, if as well, in the test as boys. But surely “us girls” can afford to relinquish some of the old myths which merely sought to “give the lit- tle girls a hand” because there was | so little they had in the days when | the myths were invented. i ss ba * MALE VIEWPO! | BARBS Fi Congressman Somebody or other | from a dry state just can’t under- | stand why anybody should question | his personal conduct in the matter of | buying home brew supplies. The home | brew supply company gave out the; facts in a letter which the congress-{ man had written telling of his results j with the firm's wares. i This is typical male psychology. The feminine standard demands a prac- ticing of what you preach. The male! is very often utterly unable to see! that public and private life have any! common ground. x * * BON VOYAGE Speaking of women and their seri- ousness, American business women, ‘| members of the National Federation of Business and Professional wom- | en, are setting forth on one of these! famous goodwill tours. They will make speeches before Eu- | ropean business women’s clubs. One American representative will tell of her herd of 5,000 sheep, another will] tell of her transcontinental bus serv- ice. $$ The woman tempted Adam and he did eat, but that was his own idea about drinking. .*e * A British writer says we wake up | because our brain is tired of inaction. In this respect there are more som- nambulists in the world than we had thought. * ek * Congress, of course, holds the mark | for sustained endurance flying with- out re-fooling. eek ke Science has discovered no way to make rain fall, probably leaving that phase of accomplishment to picnick- | ers. “ek Among the great pieces of fiction found in almost every language is the ; one about having a little extra work to do at the office. see The difference between a male and female worm is easily distinguished; | the female always is careful enough TOO MUCH EMOTION (By Alice Judson Peale) The kindergarten children sat in a circle listening to a highly dramatic rendering of “Little Black Sambo.” They sat spellbound and motionless with wide eyes fixed on the teacher's face. The tigers were growling to- gether, all four of them. Black Sam- bo's end seemed only a matter of mo- ments. Suddenly a little boy cried out: “Stop—stop—stop! I don’t want to hear any more. Please stop!” Tears were streaming down his face. The story had been too much for him. Doubtless it was too much for the other children, too. But the limit of their endurance had not been reached. The story of little Black Sambo is charming, but the manner of its tell- ing makes all the difference in the world. It is possible with almost any story so to emphasize its emotional elements as'to’make it unfit for the childish listener. Especially does it hurt him to stress such emotions as fear or anger or excessive pity. Children are far more emotional than adults, It is so easy to see the effect of our words that we are tempted by our love of power to over- stimulate them. Some children are more sensitive than others. The re- { sults of such ‘overstimulation may be anything from temporary irritability and fatigue to permanent emotional attitudes of a highly unserviceable nature. It is not only in story telling that we overstimulate the emotions. Of- ten we talk of accidents, suffering, be- reavement before children who are not yet ready to hear such things. But the greatest of our sins is to yexPress too emotionally the love we feel, and to expect of them a like ex- aggerated exhibition of feeling. The child who is besieged with hugs and kisses and extravagant expressions of love can scarcely have natural feel- ings of his own. THA’ EASY Senior Partner: One thing I like about our new clerk is that he is trustworthy. You can alwdys tell what he is going to do next. ‘There'll even be a successful/to sound her horn when passing | Junior Partner: And what is that? tombstone engraver. red light. Senior Partner: Nothing.—Pele _About, 100 women will go on the trip.! (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | Mele, Paris, OUR BOARDING HOUSE EGAD,~Now I WILL-TRY ouT MY PHONETIC FRENCH ON “THIS “TAXI-DRIVER, AND L AM SURE HE WILL THINK ME A TRUE PARISIAN! ~~ DEET DAWNK, MISSYEWR ! 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Lunch: All desired of one kind raw acid fruit, Disner: Broiled mutton chops, mashed carrots, turnips and aspar- agus, small dish of junket, ednesday : Breakfast: Waffles, 2 or 3 slices of crisp broiled bacon, stewed raisins, Lunch: Cantaloupe or berries as desired. Dinner: Plain yellow cheese served in slices as the protein part of the meal, cooked asparagus, salad of stuffed tomatoes, prune whip. ursday Breakfast: Baked eggs, toasted triscuit, stewed pears, Lunch: Pint of buttermilk, 10 or 12 dates. Dinner: Roast pork, cooked greens, buttered small beets, McCoy salad, baked apple. Friday Breakfast: Wholewheat muffins, Peanut butter, dish of cooked berries, Lunch: Apples as desired, with small handful of pecans. Dinner: Jellied tomato consomme, broiled halibut, eggplant, spinach, salad of sliced tomatoes on lettuce; no dessert, Saturday Breakfast: Cottage cheese, sliced Pineapple. Lunch: Cooked string beans, salad of grated raw carrots. Dinner: Roast beef, artichoke, steamed small carrots, with parsley. celery and nut salad (nuts to be toasted), jello or jell-well with cream, Fresh vegetables should be thor- oughly cleaned with a vegetable brush under running water in order to re- move all trace of grit or poison spray. The water that clings after the final washing usually .affords sufficient moisture to start the cooking process, especially where the heavy aluminum Pans are used. With a little care, al- most any vegetable may be entirely cooked in practically its own juice, whether on top of the stove or by baking. Many vegetables which are commonly cooked by boiling or steam- ing may be given a desirable and dif- ferent flavor by baking, such as ground beets, turnips, carrots, etc. The flavor may be varied by slightly browning on top. A A AME ME BDU THOREAU’S BIRTHDAY Henry David Thoreau, noted Amer- ican naturalist and writer, was born on July 12, 1817, at Concord, Mass., the son of Scottish parents, neither wealthy nor influential. As a boy, Thoreau became inter- ested in certain aspects of nature and spent most of his free moments wan- dering alone in the woods. but in no way distinguished himself. After graduation, he taught school. But the study of nature in preference to man appealed more to him and he soon deserted schoolmastering as a Profession and became a lecturer and I author, Thoreau, in 1845, made the now famous experiment of Walden. He retired to a home-made hut and for two years lived the life of a recluse. He read considerably, wrote abun- dantly, and came to know the birds and fishes and beasts with an almost intimate knowledge. And from his ex- perlences came “Walden,” a book up- on which his fame rests. 5 Thoreau died at the age of 45, in May, 1862. He holds a unique place in that he was a naturalist devoid of the pedantry of science. He was a keen observer, but no retailer of dis- jointed facts and his writings have all variable charm of Nature herself, “Young men should be taught the homely truth that they should make up their minds to do the job in hand the best they know how and—quite important—to derive a lot of fun and satisfaction from their work and their associations. If they do this, they will get just as much fun out of life as the president of the corporation does.”—James D. Mooney, president . * “People enjoy being shocked. The more easily shocked they are, the greater the pleasure. Shocked per- sons -always feel superior to the shocker and quite rightly are hostile to any busybody who points con- Pincingly shat see is no valid rea- ‘son for ie #. Mich- ener. (Plain mee se * “The plain truth is we are blindly approaching a national petroleum crisis, and there has been to date lit- tle concerted effort to stem the tide.” —Mark L. Requa, former U. 8. oil ad- ministrator, Fs *«* “Good manners Bnd good talk. Both of espe? Rainy charms do exist in our Uni despite the cynics, but they exist in narrowly limited cir- cles.”—Sarah Comstock. (Harper’s Magazine.) s* into politics, . .., They are hard- fellows ‘under no __ illusions, ‘They have learned the capital lesson that the government they live under, whether inthe states or in the na- tlon, is owned and operated by base the week beginning Sunday, July 14.] tables, avoid over. with fresh acid fruit, such as peaches | He attended Harvard University, | °H “Young men, .to be ‘sure, still go In either boiling or baking vege. cooking and ‘ sparing of the water added. A little careful practice, with the proper | in vegetables are lessened through the process of canning, with our modern methods of canning, the loss of vitamins is so Pip eee ye your pantry with a of canned vegetables, . ae when the fresh ones nine thus guarant plent supply of the essential mina erals every day in the year, Agar H sear gant ior bie , and { for ipation, ! is it taken?” i Answer—Constipation ie caused by | rite! cares ol and not enough of the lack of exercise, prolapsus of kinks in the colon, ete, The oF Te the way is often found ntl y by those who do not know how feee, move the real causes, It can be take: in many diffe ways, best ways is some cereal for fast, level tablespoonful to Buttermilk US eta H ic asks! "What are | milk? Is it fattening?” eu callent protein and if relished tered H ily digested. It contains a Poo of ne “4 “rd called fat large quantities and in addition ed reer On an milk diet of three quarts Possible for one who is gradually lose from a half Pound of fatty tissue, keeping the muscular } bony structure of the body well nours : ished, Sour Question—T, H, troubled with sour 8 i He if Friday's article. (Copyright, 1929, cate, Inc.) sh tates ig ; es & m. “If there ig one thing above an- other that no senator can predict, i minutes, a: é F i lag li i When Mother for vacation, ‘it “cause he just cah't ‘ N {