The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1929, Page 4

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SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS eae e Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON ——$— — $$$ (Official City, State and County Newspaper) PROGRESSIVISM GETS DOPEY ‘The decline of progressivism in the United States ls one of the most interesting aspects of recent American poli- tics. It is not yet 20 years since the great Bull Moose move- ment, when the whole nation was stirred by a new hope, and Roosevelt assaulted the “old guard” up and down the Jand, and Wilson went to the white house prepared to do battle with the forces of special privilege. “The interests” was an expression to rouse the blood, in those days, and “malefactors of great wealth” had not been forgotten; and when Wilson, taking office, thun- ered against the “invisible government” and the “in- sidious lobby,” the country applauded. Less than 20 years ago, those things were. Yet today progressivism seems dead. Another Roosevelt is assailing the “new feudalism” of entrenched wealtR, but political dopesters are shaking their heads and remarking that that kind of battle cry is out-moded now. In 1912 such ‘a thing as the power trust's propaganda campaign, re- cently revealed by the Federal Trade Commission, would have cet the nation aflame; now we shrug our shoulders about it with indifference. After all, it isn't so puzzling, though. The flame of democracy usually burns in inverse ratio to a people's material well being. When times are hard, men resent the power and the wealth of their commercial rulers; when times are good, they do not care much. On the whole, we have been enjoying good times. American prosperity is still rather spotty, but it is far better than it ever was before. Ordinary folk have been able to get luxuries and advantages such as none but the rich could enjoy in former times. The man who has a good job, money in the bank, a home of his own and a new automobile is not going to worry much about the vast profits his employers are making, or about the enormous power that is passing into their hands. This may be regrettable, but there is no help for it. ‘That is the way human nature is made. No financial or industrial autocracy is going to worry us much until it begins to hit our pocketbooks. Thus we are conservatives. The campaigns of Roose- velt and Wilson would not appeal to us now. We have forgotten progressivism for prosperity. But we are not necessarily that way for good. Funda- mentally, we are the same people we were in 1912. Pros- perity may have bred indifference; but let prosperity ‘once really slip a little and the old progressivism would return stronger than ever. Our present conservatism is only a passing phase. It will last as long as prosperity lasts, and no longer. If bad times come, the country will reveal an unsuspected capacity for aggressive, even radical, progressivism once more. And that is a point the men at the top would do well ‘o remember. INSTINCTIVE HONESTY Just a little while ago Heywood Broun made the nice ‘and novel point, though Pope had put it before, that while so many persons conceive evil or error to be the in- stinctive thing and attractive thing, their agreement on that does not prove their knowledge. He made a defense of the notion of the “noble savage.” “I must contend,” he went on, “that within my own experience most of the decent acts which I have ever done, or seen in others, ‘were matters less of principle than of impulse.” A happy and heartening testimony in a world where the most modern of things still must reckon with the most ancient, which is the nature of man. Did not Sir Francis Bacon find that “There is in hu- man nature, generally, more of the fool than of the wise?” And Spencer held that the highest type of human nature 4s non-existent. But what of the starving painter who, unseen, found $52,000 and rushed it to its owner? And what, also, of the immigrant who starved to death saving money for his family back in the old country? From these things all sorts of thought trains might be started. They are commentaries on a great deal. But ‘whatever more they may be, they are also witnesses to the honesty and kindness which are matters of impulse rather than of principle. In the blur of the vast modern ‘World it is good to note honesty so simple and complete. CHEAPNESS OF LIFE A bandit walked into a little confectionery store in a tmiddle western city the other evening. At the counter stood a business man, buying a box of candy. The bandit leveled a gun at him and demanded his pocketbook. The customer, emptying his pockets, protested that he had no money with him except a little amall change. = ‘Thereupon the bandit, enraged, pulled the trigger and shot the man dead. > ‘This little stery, not considered unusual enough to get More than a few inches of newspaper space, is as reveal- ‘dng 2s anything you could find in your paper. =, It tells more about the attitude which makes our “crime ‘rave” possible than s whole volume of léarned sociolog- teal dissertation. For it proves, graphically, that human life has beceme cheep in America. Killing & man is ne war. It is an outgrowth of our national char- erected without at least one laborer being killed on the Job, The automobiles that our machine-manned factories turn out kill more than 20,000 people every year, and no- body dreams of getting excited about it. Law enforcement officers, when they suspect a person of smuggling, shoot him first and investigate afterwards. ‘The coal that heats our houses and furnishes steam for our industries is taken from the ground at the cost of scores of lives annually; yet no one suggests that that price is scandalously high. You could go on multiplying instances of that kind indefinitely. And. in the end, what you would prove would be just this: that the individual is coming to count for less and less in yur civilization each year. He ts being lost tract of in the whirring of machinery and the confusion of modern haste. So the rise of our murder rates is only a reflection of the cheapening of human life that has taken place all over the country. It won't be remedied much until we get a new attitude, TEMPORARY ABODES For eight years throughout the cities and towns of the United States the trend has been toward apartments rather than toward single houses or houses in pairs and rows. Each year the rate of apartment-house construc- tion increases and the proportion of apartment-house dwellers grows. This implies social tendencies which, while less easy to appraise than the economic, are of concern to all. Al- ways a@ race of nomads, Americans are rapidly deserting their single-family houses for the apartment. The move- ment began in the large cities, but is now spreading to the small city and town. One result of the change is a growing sense of im- permanence, which has always been strong among us. The idea of the “old homestead” has always loomed larger in fiction than in fact. This was inevitable in a new country where the incentives for frequent “flittings” have always been strong, and where the European cus- tom of preserving property intact for a single heir has never widely prevailed. This heightened preference for apartment life is the last break with the rural tradition, the last step in urban- ization, The apartment nomads have an advantage even over the Arabs who must fold up their tents. In defense of the old homestead let it be said, however, that when modern cliff dwellers become established geographically and financially their first thought is for an isolated country home or wilderness cottage. MORE DEADLY THAN DIPHTHERIA The acuteness of our automobile traffic situation is aptly shown by figures recently compiled by the New York state department of health. These figures show that in New York City, in 1927, au- tomobiles killed 18.3 persons per 100,000 population; in the rest of the state they killed 26.6 per 100,000. Yet such a disease as typhoid fever, in the same arca caused a death rate of only 2 per cent per 100,000. Measles, another dgeaded malady, had a rate of only 7 Per 100,000. And diphtheria’s rate was only 13.6 per 100,000. Ten times as deadly as typhoid fever—nearly twice as deadly as diphtheria—that i¢@ cur automobile traffic! How much longer are we going to accept this state of affairs complacently, anyway? When will we be shocked into taking the drastic action that the situation de- mands? Americanism: Judging New York by some smart writ- er's description; feeling offended because New Yorkers judge you by some smart writer's description. If the brain leaves considerable parking space inside the skull, the germ of swellhead will find it sooner or later. | Editorial Comment | THE VALOR OF OLD AGE (Chicago Tribune) ‘There is a familiar irony in the willingness of youth to take perilous risks and the unwillingness of age to take any risk at all. Youth in this view is valorous, old age timorous, youth gallantly ready to throw life away when its expectancy is greatest, ag jealously guarding the meager remnants remaining. ere is no mystery in the contrast, but there is. some misunderstanding of the sit- uation. It is not only that youth's willingness to stake his life has considerable support from youth’s necessary inability to value its riches. But there is more in the matter than that. There is a valor of old age as well as of youth, and it is a finer thing than its shining fore- runner. It is harder to be brave when the battle turns against you, when the sword arm wearies, the blows of fortune ache, and hopes of the laurel wither one by onc. Age is a long and unremitting struggle against the in- evitable and incorrigible offensive of time. There are few of us that can very heartily echo Ben Ezra: “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was planned.” There is an irreconcilable magic in youth which dulls the buffets of experience, keeps a glow alive in disillusionment, and an uncon- querable hope through disappointment. Age fights with no such glorious reserves at its shoulder, and to cast up the account in candor only reveals how few are its com- pensations. There are offsets, but it is wiser not to strike the balance. Age fights on grimly against the tide and its courage is greater than youth's. WHO READS THE BIBLE? (Itasca Journal-News) Deep in the Maine woods, on the shores of Lake Matta- wamkeag, is Bible Point, a thick tongue of land extend- ing into the waters. The name derives from an iron box, nailed to a tree, and containing a Bible. Above the box is this legend: “This place, to which a grgat man in his youth liked to come and commune with’God and the wonder and beauty of the visible world, is dedicated to the happy memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Stranger, rest here and consider what one man, having faith in the right, and love for his fellows, was able to do for his country.” Who reads the Bible? Prof. Phelps, on being asked for a list of the famous people who have gone to it for faith, love and duty, replied. “Just take the names in the Eng- lish and American ‘Who's Who.’ You can copy them at your leisure.” He added that nobody can have any real roots pos the English language who does not know and It is still the finest book on morals. manners and re- In its compact library are master- powerful personages who ever lived. Bible as Reesevelt did, to find guidance in conduct. Some read it as the fountainhead of pure English. Some read it to ease the hard rough places of life with the lifting power .of inspiration. For whatever purpose, the Bible still remains the out- standing best séller among the béoks of men. CAROLINA IN THE BIG MONEY (Duluth Herald) ‘Unele Gam reports that in the fiscal year with year ending to explain why North Caro- Democratic, it went ‘ab.05 for Hoover to 228,08 4 THE BISMARC. They’re Red Hot! R-R-Red Hot!! The great American home has been getting nobody less than Henry Ford all hot and bothered for some time. It is archiac, he says. Nothing has been so tardy in feeling the touch of me modern twentieth century as the jome. It is wasteful. Inefficient. Cum- bersome. It wears out women. Take this matter of meal getting alone. The great industrialist says: “Speaking of cooking—you remem- ber what I said about the factory re- moving task-labor from the home? Well, where is there more drudgery than in cooking and dish washing? “The homes of the future will have no cooking inside. Individual cook- houses afd kitchens will disappear. There will be community culinary centers where every variety of food desired will be scientifically cooked and delivered to homes, much more cheaply done than individual cook- ing can do it and generally much ° better done.” zene NOW HENRY! Now to cross rapiers a little with Henry who knows his industry but; does not know his women. If houses and the processes of housekeeping have clung to the incf- ficient and old-fashioned longer and more tenaciously than any other workers in the vineyard and any other industry, it’s because women have been ready for nothing else. It is all very well to prattle about “the modern woman” with her clubs and her work outside the home and her civic causes, and all things so much more interesting to her, more suited to her talents, than work in- side the home. But it’s the old story of the articu- | late foisting their own opinions and desires upon the inarticulate. The woman who can write probably despises housework, so she puts for- ward the idea that all women despise housework. But for everyone of her there are a hundred souls perfectly fitted to the one job of housework, and utterly miserable at the thought of having | the only job they know snatched away from them. Oe *. MORE MISERY tried again and again. The lady lawyer and teacher and judge and painter and writer have gladly called up to order the evening meal, but the great mass of women have gone Placidly about the task of dressing and stuffing and roasting their own chickens, just because if they didn't, they'd not know what to do with themselves. ‘When all cooking and dish washing is taken from the individual home and moved into a community center we are going to live through an era of women whose unrest and dissat- isfaction and general misery quite puts in the shade the much discussed “unrest” of “the modern woman” who has been in a vast minority. “The modern woman” has been that from choice. But the woman living in an inevitable and oncoming in- dustrially efficient era will be forced to buy her cooking communitywise be- cause she will be unable to find a house equipped for cooking. It's a long way off, true. But the present challenge is to prepare wom- en for the leisure which they are not ready as yet to use. ——<<_______., BARBS |. People who believe there is no devil y never have opened their windows and {doors on a hot night to get all the breezes and then had to listen to ‘somebody next door running the scales on a cornet. -* * | Why are all insurance agents so j genial? j * * * Why doesn't the National Safety | council issue some kind of bulletin in- | structing mothers how to keep ashes {out of the baby’s eyes? xe * A summer school is an institution established in order that the old aia lineup will be intact in the all. | se * It isn't the saturation point of the automobile that worries the pedes- trian so much as the saturation point of the driver. eke Perhaps it's just as well for some of our congressmen that the wheat crop in some of the foreign countries has ‘been hit hard by bad weather condi- tions. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | Chinese ring neck pheasants will be common game birds in Wiscon- sin five years hence, predicts W. B. K TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 16. 1929 all AM OO = Any THE WAR OF 1812 On July 15, 1813, the Massachusetts legislature voted against the contin- uance of the War of 1812. This act, on the part of one of the | Perspira' strongest and most powerful states in the newly organized union, found sympathy with other states and indi- rectly played a part in the historic Hartford convention. Although the federalists were in control at the time, the war was very unpopular in New England, especially since the embargo acts proved injur- ious to their commerce. The Hartford convention, however, adjourned sine die after the slu- sion of the war. Delegates, inciting 12 from Massachusetts, were still in secret session when peace was de- clared. It was first believed, because the sessions were secret, that Massa- chusetts and other states planned se- cession from the union, but this was denied. “There is just one thing about it— you have to use sense about your eat- ing just as much as you do about Presiding over the senate. I love to eat. But I know when to quit.” —Vice President Curtis. ee ee “Ours is a big country with great diversity of custom, habit and opin- [ion of right- and wrong, National {laws designed to apply to all of us {must be flexible enough to provide room for our various customs and ideas. There is not enough money or Power enough in this or any other country to compel the people to spect laws they regard as stupid. William L. Chenery, editor, Collier's. ess 6 “The very fact that accidents have been greatly reduced in the past few {years is sufficient proof that we are making some advance along the line of safety; but we have not yet scratched the surface of real care and watchfulness for those who are our Community kitchens have been|Grange, state game superintendent. | most valuable workers and citizens.” SJ uw BUT CONFOUND L SPEAK EXCELLENT FRENCH ! w=. I7TOLD Vou To FETCH ME A PACKAGE OF MATCHES ! ww MY WORD “NOT A SCUTTLE OF COAL ? w+. EGAD ~~ WHEN I MADE SIGNS OF STRIKING A MATCH, I DIDNT MEAN TO LIGHT UP A GRATE FIRE fu: HME wa ODD, YOU Y 4 | y RSS tT MAN, Oul~ o Pity! UH ae m'sied, I SPAK RES BIEN ONGLEESH ~ UI? ame You Not WANT Now ZAT BUCKEET, No 2 ~~ AH-H ~ ET EES we JT TereePHone Af MY CUZEEN ~~ HE COME WIZ ET IN “TAXI FROM SONG CLOO. ~AH-He PITY ! Sate i WW oNGLEESH You WANTS D THE. BEST TIME FOR FASTS HEALTH“DIET ADVICE S Dr Frank Mc i Ihe Sast Wey. Mi 0 Mole alcoholic beverages, but since prohj- Bountiful summertime brings us @} bition that cause should be almost profusion of the most healthful and | entirely removed.” i tasty foods. This is the time when nature produces the greatest quantity of the cleansing fresh juicy fruits and the succulent vegetables. time when people who have ill health should make up their minds to become well. Many people object to the winter- time for fasting and dieting because they complain of feeling chilly,- but this excuse does not exist during warm weather. When surrounded by warmth, the body is more capable of eliminating catarrhal troubles and rheumatic toxins. The profusion of bulky vegetables makes the summertime an excellent season for overcoming constipation. In other words, summertime is the Perfect purifying season to those who wish to take advantage of its oppor- tunities. This is an ideal time to start the out-of-door habit. When a beautiful summer day comes along, you feel that it is a shame to waste it indoors. Take advantage of this feeling and go out into the sunshine and frag- rant summer air. At this period the flowers, the songbirds, the freshness of nature, and wide spaces are wait- ing to be enjoyed. There is no ex- cuse now for keeping your windows down. Open them up and let the fresh, health-giving air circulate throughout the house. Summertime is vacation time. Ev- eryone should undergo a complete change of environment, at least once each year. Changing our old habits and developing new interests will pre- vent physical and mental stagnation. Nothing tends to prolong youth more than a good circulation of blood and ideas, Give your @ chance to profit by the cleansing harmonies of na- ture. You can now avoid those heavy, dulling foods, and make up of the lighter, succulent, energizing, living summer food crops. The heat gives us a natural inclination toward the juicy fruits, the melons and the fresh, salads. Don't make the mistake of substituting the heavy sugared soda soft beverages for the fresh, pure fruit juices. The body cleanses itself through tion, Help it out by drinking Plenty of water and taking frequent showers or swims. You need prac- tically fione of the heating foods. ‘Those who are trying to reduce will find that they can live on nothing but fruits and vegetables until they | heeled have reduced to normal. Nature tempts us to make this a season of rejuvenation. Why not resolve to profit by the healthful aid of the summertime. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Gout Question-—-T. G. H. asks: “How is it so many of my friends have gout? I thought it was caused by drinking —James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. ** & “The institution of the general prac- titioner will also go far to stop the high cost of doctoring.”—Logan Clen- dening, M. D. (Outlook and Inde- pendent.) Pao * “A pleasant speaking voice is an asset in every walk of life. The tone in which a phrase is uttered may change its very meaning.”—Helen Hathaway. eee GO r = * “The most important thing in golf? As I understand it, reference is meant to that element which the great ma- jority have so much difficulty in ac- quiring. If this is a fair assumption, then my answer to the question is, RELAXATION.”—Joe Kirkwood. (The American Golfer.) f Our Yesterdays ] FORTY YEARS AGO J. C. Boren, who lives eight miles east of Bismarck, yesterday made the final proof on his claim from which his family has not been absent one day during seven years, 'W. G. Hayden, former public exam- iner, has arrived to take over his du- ties as clerk for the commission for the division of property in the terri- Mrs. George Kline returned yester- day from a month's visit with rela- tives and friends in Boston, and Wa- terville, Me. John Haggart, former sheriff of Cass county, is here making arrange- ments for winter hay for his large herd of cattle. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO R. M. Pringle, supervisor of engi- neering for the Indian bureau of the department of the interior, is here to lay out the site of the buildings for the new Indian school. Miss Evelyn Williams entertained yesterday at a thimble bee for her sis- ter, Miss Mathilda. Mrs. A. A: Joos returned today trom a brief visit in the, east. Mrs. Millie Johnson Wood will leave today by car for Shoreham, Minn., she will spend two weeks at her cottage on Lake Sally. Now is the j Dr. McCoy will glediy answer personal questions on health diet, addressed to him, care of Tri Enclose @ stamped eddressed envelope for reply. and the Answer—If you take prohibition statistics seriously, you would also enjoy reading “Jack-the-Giant-! er.” Gout is one form of rheumatism and is caused by their rheumatic tox emia which comes from over-eating, over-drinking, using wrong kinds o! food, and in improper combinations. Kidney Trouble Question—G. C. writes: “I have a case of kidney trouble. Have been on ‘a diet of just milk and one orange a day. Everything has cleared up in the urine but the albumen, which is three plus. I have no more casts or acids, but still the albumen doesn’t go down. Answer—You do not say how long you have been on the milk diet, but. as this is an excellent treatment for albuminorrhea, I would advise you to continue on such a diet until you show still more improvement. If the albumen does not disappear rapidly enough it would be a good plan for you to take an orange juice fast for a few days, then go back on the milk. Home Canning Question—Housekeeper writes: “We have a garden growing practically all of the non-starchy vegetables you recommend, and there will be a sur- plus for canning for winter use. What method of canning do you advise?” Answer—The best method of can- ning is the cold pack. After proper preparation, the food is packed in the containers and cooked in boiling water to insure sterilization, after which the cans are tightly sealed. This process conserves the valuable mineral salts that otherwise are thrown away when the vegetables are first cooked and then placed in the cans. From High to Low Heels Question—K. J. writes: “When changing frofm high-heeled slippers into low-heeled ones I seem to have a cramp in my foot, and just before I get into the low-heeled slippers my foot seems to snap like when you try “finger-breaking.” Can you tell me orto cadere iad ela cocoa’ Answer—The from high- slippers to low-heeled ones must be made ‘gradually. The une natural position of the foot in a high-heeled shoe changes the posi- tions of the bones of the foot, and it takes some time before they will re- turn to their normal shape after such @ shoe ‘has been continually worn, The “cracking” is due to the bones or ligaments slipping into position. (Conyrig . ht, 1929, The Bell Syndicate, ine.) THEY CALL HIM “MATT” Belfast-—A man in the Belfast union informary, about 30 years old, walks around in @ daze and can recall incidents happening in the year. “Matt” as he is known, been subjected to drugs in an endeav. or to induce him to talk about him. self during a stupor. The only inkling to his identity is the fact that he seems familiar with the duties of a chemist. Other than that his mind is blank. TERE 7 DIVORCE JUDGES BUSY London.—At the recent sitting of divorce court when Trinity law sit- tings began, there were 5: of 2 a 4 s?ae aise ag s g8 Qe 3&3 eas ! JUST A NICE SAUNT Calais, France.—Mile. Aimee Pfan- minutes, and she is the first woman to ever accomplish the feat LAND IS UNDOING London.—(P)--When a sailor gets on land he’s lost and yearns for the sea A short leave was fatal to Sailor Scarlett, of H.M.8. le,re- cently. He couldn't ride snd’ on