The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune Ap Inéependent Newspaper THE STATE'S ULDES1 NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) SEES Te emmeneeal blished the Bismarck Tribune Company, 5is- nN. Divan entered at the postoffice at Bismarck matter. Suet oe «os. President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Carrier Per YeOr .......00s-00 7 Bismarck: eekly by mail, in state, per year ......- Weekly o mail, in state. three years for Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, also reserved. Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK wh (Official City, State and County Newspaper) DEADLINESS OF LAUGHTER Fear of physical danger is not such a terribly hard thing to overcome. The human race is fairly sturdy, and brave men are not uncommon. But the man who is not afraid or ridicule is a rare person; and when he appears on the scene he is almost certain to make a stir. ‘Unluckily, we don’t usually recognize that kind of bravery. The word “crank” slips off our tongues too easily; once we apply it to a man he Is blasted and his steadfast bravery can never hope for a nod of recog- nition. In the city of, Massillon, O., there lives a man whose very name has been a folk-lore comic picture for more than 30 years. His name is Jacob 8. Coxey—and the famous Coxey’s army of 35 years ago has been looked upon for a generation as one of the low comedy inci- dents in our national drama. Yet this man Coxey, who is now getting ready to go on a tour of the country to speak for a new paper money proposal he has devised, is a man of rare courage. He is not in the least afraid of being laughed at. And we, who enjoy laughing at him—well, how many of us can say that about ourselves? ‘The ability to withstand ridicule gives a man an al- most dangerous power. For laughter is our deadliest weapon. When everything else in our arsenal fails, laughter usually succeeds. The man whom it can’t hurt is apt to go a long way. It doesn't matter in the least whether you agree with Coxey's ideas or not. His money scheme may be a stroke of genius or it may be a brainstorm. That, for the purposes of this discussion, is irrelevant. The point is that Coxey, who has becn laughed at for 35 years and who is ready to go out and be laughed at ggain, is a mem- ber of a great brotherhood; the brotherhood of cranks, fanatics, clowns—and world-changers. Stonewall Jackson was the laughing stock of the Con- federate armies for months; but before he died any southerner would cheerfully have shot the man who dared so much as smile at his gaunt, angular personality. Lincoln excited the titters of all of Washington's better people when he first entered the white house; but now his graven image looks out of a classic temple toward the Washington monument, and people enter with bared heads. Roosevelt, the “dude cowboy,” drew a perfect salvo of Tidicule when he entered politics, and today the children of the men who laughed at him speak his name with a reverent, wistful admiration. So it goes. Laughter has killed off many a cause, good and bad, and has sent many a leader to the scrap-heap. But when you find a man whom laughter doesn't hurt— watch out for him. THE MURDEROUS SUBMARINE ‘The tragic loss of the British submarine H-47 with 22 of its crew has revived in Europe and here agitation for the abolition of undersea craft. This disaster and those that have preceded it create a strong doubt that the wartime usefulness of submersibles compensates for their vulnerability in times of peace or justifies the costly and exacting burden of their maintenance. America and England would have abandoned use of the submarine some years ago had not the lesser naval powers refused to go along. The latter argue that the relatively inexpensive submersibles enable them to main- tain an approximate parity of naval strength with na- tions with longer pocketbooks. Perhaps they can be ex- cused for their suspicion that it is because of this that the great powers favor junking all submarines. ‘These undersea tragedies will serve a good purpose if they intensify the intentions of the world to be done with such purely murderous devices. No nation remembering the horrors and brutality of submarine warfare as it was Prosecuted in the World war advances reasons justifying opposition to the anti-submarine program. And, after all, the submarine ceased to be an effective war machine during the last years of the World war. Gunfire, depth bombs and accident made the life of the German submarine crews as hazardous as they had made \ife aboard surface vessels during the early years of the “sinking without trace” submarine program. FIST FIGHTS AND BASEBALL Rowdyism on any athletic field is, of course, a thing to deplore. It is distressing, unsporstmanlike, and all that sort of thing. And yet—well, no dyed-in-the-wool base- ball fan will be sorry to read that Hack Wilson of the ‘Chicago Cubs and Ray Kolp and Pete Donohue of the . Cincinnati Reds felt impelled to use their fists on one an- other after a recent game in Chicago. The only serious complaint against baseball in late the chief executive is not the arbiter of the morals of the nation nor any part of it. There is no constitutional power for him to dictate Sunday observance. Neither is the manner in which Washington observes the Sabbath a matter for presidential concern or con- @ressional action. Are the president and members of congress, who to the national capital are outlanders, to step in and tell the people of the District of Columbia what they may and may not do with their one day a week Of surcease from labors? It seems to those possessed of the real Christian spirit that here is one of those times when the decision should be left to those directly affected. and Washington has shown no hankering for a “Blue Sunday.” PRODIGIES Though only just past the half-way mark, the year 1929 has produced more than its share of infant prodi- gies. Refuting the pro old-age arguments and claims of Henry Ford, youth has been accomplishing things, re- markable things. For example, there is Jack Berry, nine-year-old Los Angeles wonder, who convinced a judge and jury that he knew more than they did of what they were talking ‘about. On the other side of the continent is an infant who is an expert swimmer and diver at an age when most youngsters are crawling on all fours. Probably the most notable of the year’s crop of prodi- gies is Betty Ford, who at the age of 17 graduated from Stanford university. At the age of eight she was the author of 100 poems and 75 stories, had read nearly 1000 books and had a vocabulary of 13,000 words. Old heads shake with cause. They foresee the time when adult authority must shift from superior knowl- edge to such difficult achievements as wisdom and judg- ment, for the infant prodigy has not yet been found who can put to rout the wisdom and judgment of gray heads. THE DANGERS IN SPEED Major George A. Parker, state registrar of motor ve- hicles for Massachusetts, points out that the average speed of automobiles on Massachusetts highways has in- creased 10 miles an hour in the last two years, and be- leves this is an important factor in the steady increase in traffic accidents. “Probably the vast majority of motorists have not the slightest idea of the potential striking force of their cars, and they go blissfully on their way until they bring up against a bridge-head, a tree or a telegraph pole,” he says. Major Parker remarks that most drivers who come to grief while traveling fast try to alibi themselves. They will blame a bump in the pavement, a slippery road or a too-sharp curve—never realizing that their own speed was the primary factor in the accident. Fast driving is all right, provided that you remember that high speed calls for increased care and forethought. Mishaps that are unimportant at 20 miles an hour become extremely dangerous when the speed rises to 40. SHOOTING AT THE LEE’S RECORD Two fast motor yachts will leave New Orleans some- time this month in a race to St. Louis, in which they will try to break the record set in 1870 by the famous old river steamer Robert E. Lee—90 hours and 31 minutes for the 1250-mile course. We wish these sporting yachtsmen all kinds cf luck, of course—but somehow we can't help harboring a sneaking hope that the Lee's record stands unbroken. A motor yacht is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, to be sure. But the Lee's record is part of the great tradi- tion of the river. It belongs to the packet boats. It has stood for nearly 60 years; and lovers of the river would not mind if it stood for 60 years longer. A physician attributes the fact that today a woman of 40 “looks 20” to her habit of “casting away superfluous clothes.” If the process is progressive it may not be long before she'll look like a mere child. It is said that 400 out of every 1,000 Americans weigh too much, but those folk do not cause half the disturb- ance of that other large proportion which weighs too much in its own imagination. — Sometimes we fear the world is headed for destruction, and then we read the ads in “confession” magazines and don’t care if it is. Forgiveness: The feeling that remains when time dulls the edge of resentment and you no longer give a darn. Editorial Comment COMPULSORY WHEAT POOLING (St. Paul Dispatch) Delegates to the semi-annual meeting of the Saskatche- wan wheat pool at Regina debated with some heat on a resolution that called upon the provincial government to give the pool sole control of the marketing of wheat within the province. The debate indicated that discus- sion of the issue had been widespread among the mem- bers of the pool. There was agreement over the desire to have a 100 per cent pool of wheat growers and that it is unfair that the non-pool farmer should profit from the benefits created by the pool. But many of the delegates opposed the idea of legislative compulsion, expressing f. breterence for moral suasion and voluntary co-opera- on. A definite campaign is now being conducted in Sas- katchewan to gain support for legislation that will cause all grain produced to be marketed through the wheat Producers’ organization. Thus the issue of the equaliza- tion fee proposed in the McNary-Haugen bill comes in another form in Canada. There each farmer would be assessed the fee on each bushel now paid only by pool members and in addition his.grain could be marketed only by the pool. In the United States the fee alone was to be levied on each bushel and the marketing of the Product rested with the farmer. Canada has gone so far in government ald and direction of handling and ma:ket- ing of farm products that it may yet adopt in the 100 per cent wheat pool the principle of the McNary-Haugen equalization fee. : TILDEN FADING FROM TENNIS PICTURE (Mi Tribune) months, that Big Bill Tilden’s days as a tennis star of the first magnitude are nearing the end. The Ameri- Cochet, by such a formidable a5 to leave little doubt that he was com- outclassed. niet : will be a matter of keen public ace, despite his eccentricities, figure. 4 | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 1 | Another Game in Which You Can Make a ‘Hole-in-One’! | : 6, 1929 pa “Not speaking” seems to be a rath- er occasional form of would-be mar- ital punishment, one to the other. Now we hear tell of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Zimmerman of Fayette county, Pa., who, after 40 years of married life which included the having and rearing of 15 children, have engaged in a no-speaking contest for over four | years. It seems that Pa Zimmerman came home from a hard day’s work one night in 1925, started an argument with his good woman; the argument waxed hotter and hotter, and as a finale Pa Zimmerman opined that he would be just as happy and in a general state of well-being if the good wife would entirely discontinue speech with him. * * “TELL YOUR PAW” A silence agreement was drawn up, with five children as the witnesses. Since that night not one word has wife spoken to husband, or husband to wife. If it is imperative that one word of so be transferred one to the other, it is written on paper, and one of the children gives it to the other parent. Even when the wife needed money, she managed to keep silent, and transferred the request in writing -through a child, and event- ually the same request got in the courts. s* * NOT SO FUNNY! Though the story is funny, it is in- finitely more tragic—tragic not only in this individual instance, but in it as a symbol of so many marriages, once fair and constructive, which can corrode into a travesty of marriage like this—all the more tragic because the married state is retained rather than broken. It is unusual—in fact, impossible— for personal pride to be stronger than love. When two people can cling to a non-speaking contest, it merely mean: self-love, a retaining of the mar- riage because of convenience, rather than love of the other. *** * PAPA'S LITTLE MAN Speaking of the wonderful paternal instinct, as I occasionally do, here's Papa David Bernstein of New York, sentenced to three years in the pen OLD MASTERS IN OF MERIT ~ YAS 1 SAY MY MAN ~ I Wve A LARGE ART GALLERY FILLED WITH BACK IN “THE STATES ! ~ AHEM—~ WHILE WANDERING AROUND THE GALLERIES OF THE LOUVRE, NOTICED A FEW PORTRAITS PARTICULAR ~~ ER-UM-M-~. aw THE “MONA LISA” I BELIEVE I(T IS CALLED ~~ @HAR-RR-UMF a W . PRICE OF ‘T, PLEASE for renting out his 7-year-old son Sol- omon as a beggar. It seems that every morning dear Papa would strap little Solly into a wheel chair in such a way that he seemed paralyzed. He would rent out: the boy and chair for $3 a day to such beggars as could use him. * oS Ok TWO COMMENTS To say that only a father could do this and a mother, never, is as ob- vious a comment as it is untrue, though, of course, the child-exploiting mother would always be rarer than @ father. But one wonders at that if little Solly endured any more than some of these child prodigies who are forced |to practice the violin or piano ten hours a day so that papa can have a | nice income, or are forced into be- ing child stage stars. . WHy? “Woman's place?” Women are re- placing men as stewards on many of the ocean liners. Officials say they } are not only cheaper to hire, but | more courteous, efficient, reliable, and generally satisfactory. But what a yowl the not-so-good deposed stewards will make about “women taking men’s jobs at lower salaries,” and all that. It will never occur to them that they themselves !and not economic change had some- j thing to do with the innovation, =e * 1 SAME WAY {Miss Anne Marie Proessl, 34, of | Munich, Germany, and Gottfried ; Ruppe, 39 of Canton, O., were mar- j tied a few hours after meeting for the first time. Their marriage fol- lowed a five-month correspondence. j There were photographs, of course. Mail order romances are really un- | usual only when the participants send ; Photographs not their own, or no Photographs at all. A mail courtship is as dependent {on personal appearance for arousing ; emotions rather than on disposition ‘and character as exhibited through ie or letters, as is any romance. Looks count most. ALWAYS BELITTLIN’ While crossing a railway bridge a ‘small boy was astonished to see two |trains running on the same line and about to crash head-on. He stood and witnessed the sinash. i Later, some officials, 1.arning that there had been an eyewitness, found the lad and asked: “What were your | thoughts at the time of the crash?” “Well,” the boy answered slowly, “I thought it wes a rotten way to run a railway."—Tit-Bits. ZZ ZILA SS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA On July 26, 1790, congress an act which provided for the location of the federal capital in “a district or | territory, not exceeding 10 miles square, on the River Potomac be- tween the mouth of the Eastern Branch and the Conogocheague.” The site today is known familiarly as the District of Columbia. ‘Inci- dentally, it is believed to be the same site where stood the famous Indian village of Powhatan which Captain John Smith visited in 1608. Location of a permanent capital led to many furious debates immediately j after the conclusion of the Revolu- tionary war and final choice of the banks of the Potomac was in the na- [ture of a compromise and also in deference to the wishes of George Washington. The first session of congress was held there in March, 1800. Thomas Jefferson was then president. “Looking ahead but a few years, one may reasonably visualize airplane Postoffices, the mail being picked up, sorted and discharged in much the same fashion as is now done by rail- roads."—Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce. ese 8 “Don't reserve your manners for your friends. Give them an airing in the office and half the bugaboos of drab routine will vanish like thin smoke in the air.”—Helen Hathaway. (Liberty.) ** # “If President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement were to turn the whole problem of dealing with con- victed criminals over to the psychia- trists, the psychiatrists would find themselves unable to offer an immed- fate solution to the problem, and I for one would not wish to attempt it.” —Dr. Elwood R. Kirby, Philadelphia { physician and psychiatrist. use “After we get plenty of business ef- io MY MANSION N N ower ~ ONE IN HAT 1S THE 2 WAT! LE MoNNA LEEZA? S BUY ~ NoN~ NoN~ No LE MONNA LEEZA, ZER EES CARTE POSTALE oF EET ON SALE POUR DEUX FRANC! w~ HOF- FF. FP. ~€T EES Not - ; You WAN PEEKCHAIR rR AE “THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH” TRY ALFALFA To many people the idea of a human eating alfalfa will seem ridiculous, as we are so accustomed to considering it as being food for horses, cattle and rabbits. However, experiments have proved that all alfalfa is also good for human beings, a: it contains all the known vitamins and is alkaline-form- ing enough to make it a protective food against acidosis. For years chemists have becn work- ing to prepare a food of alfalfa which would be suitable for human use. The fault lies that alfalfa in its dried state does not have a very agreeable taste and so the foods placed on the market containing this leafy vegetable have been made with too much sugar or molasses which is usually incompat- ible with the ordinary foods used at a meal. Some candy factories have made al- falfa into candy for children be- cause of the richness of vitamins in the alfalfa. Finely pulverized al- falfa flour mixed with white flour has been used in the form of cakes, muffins and cookies. In these forms, the flavor is quite palatable, although some people object to the slight green- ish color. For several years I have been ad- vising my patients to eat alfalfa if they could get it fresh, as both the leaves and blossom make a delicions addition to a combination salad. A dental authority has stated, “Alfalfa is especially rich in vitamins and iron which are important in keeping the teeth firm and strong. The American people should eat 15 per cent more vegetables for lunch and dinner and more dairy products. The introduc- tion of alfalfa as food for humans may be a great boon. This may be developed in a very short time, and the scientist who produces food from alfalfa will be doing the world a vast service.” The tender leaves and blossoms, p:cked in the sun and dried in the shade, make an excellent tea com- Parable with the most aromatic of! Oriental teas and without containing the injurious tannin and thein of common tea. The acreage devoted to alfalfa is steadily increasing year after year. It is used extensively for feeding cattle. The milk from alfalfa-fed cows is b.und to be more than usuully rich in vitami: ind since milk is ordinarily deficient¥in iron, this is important, since the amount of iron in milk is increased by using alfalfa for feeding. Alfalfa contains a fair amount of Protein. carbohydrate and fat, and the large proportion of crude fibre is especially valuable in providing bulk for the intestines. Most people use a personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the ‘Tril Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. diet entirely deficient in cellulose- containing foods. Alfalfa is also wholesome when stewed as greens, but most people ob- ject to its strong taste. The fact that chemists are work- ing cn alfalfa flour and various al- falfa products may bring about its development as a recognized human food within the next few years. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Rheumatism Question—Mrs. H. J. writes: “No matter how much work I do, I do not seem able to perspire. Also, I suffer a great deal from rheumatism.” Answer—Those who have any kind of rheumatism always have difficulty Perspiring, I believe this is due to the rheumatic toxemia which seems to Poison the body to such an extent that the pores of the skin do not open freely. If you will get rid of your rheumatic poison through diet- ing, and increase the health of your skin by frequent bathing, you will soon find that you will begin to per- spire freely. When copious sweating finally starts, it is a sure sign that you have reduced your rheumatic diathesis, and you will be well on the road to recovery. Wasting Diseases Question—H. B. M. asks: “With what diseases does one lose flesh and strength?” Answer—Tuberculosis, cancer, and most of the deficiency diseases, such as scurvy, rickets, etc. Growth on Spine Question—Mrs. K. L. asks: “Would you suggest the orange fast alone for @ growth on the spine under the in- testines?” Answer—An orange juice fast is al- ways indicated in the treatment of any abnormal growth where an oper- ation is not advisable. If the growth is not cut out, it must be absorbed and eliminated through the blood stream. Fasting relieves the body of the burden of/assimilation and the building of tissues, and gives the bod- ily forces more chance to eliminate toxins or any abnormal growths. Sarai 1929, The Bell Syndicate, inc. ficiency in America, I hope there will be a crusade to go back to the doc- trines of our fathers on the right of every human to regulate his own life as he sees fit.”"—Clarence Darrow. s* & “A little alteration in the United States system of administering crim- inal justice, such as limiting technical Pleas and narrowing down jury chal- lenges, would result in the system working more efficiently."—C. F. Jamieson. (Plain Talk.) se % “We have no statistics of unem-! ployment that aré worth shucks. With regard to the hazard of industrial employment, which ravels life and livelihood as devastatingly, we have left things at loose ends.”—Paul V. Kellogg, editor, The Survey. BARBS parachute jumpers Professional make good incomes, but not all peo- ple should lower themselves to do it. ** Boys will be boys and old women will be girls. eke 4 A wealthy New Yorker left his for- tune to a woman who had rejected ° o she will spend two weeks at the lake resorts. Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite has re- turned from a trip to Hazelton and Plymouth, Pa., where he visited rel- atives, | UNLUCKY HOUSE London.—There is a house in entry that is shunned by all cou, contemplating marriage. The man who bought it was engaged married. After he bought the house the girl broke the engagement. The second buyer, likewise, was engaged to be married. His intended broke the engagement. The is at present empty. gies i PLAYS NO FAVORITES London.—Blindfolded justice no favorites, and that is why out license brought her before magis- her about: $25, ————_. THIS IS NO JOKE Aberdeen. — No longer will Scotch bear the brunt of “tight” Jokes. Lord Provost Lewis’ him. Who said there is no gratitude? see A Denver man told the police he had lost his canary the other day, they sent out the flying squad. se *& A new radium-tipped pencil enables @ man to write down his thoughts.in four colors. A big demand is reported from golfers. ‘i * Now that we have talking sign-|%, a boards tourists soon will have to start wearing earmuffs. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | Our Yesterdays ; — FORTY YEARS AGO Martin Hector, Fargo business is spending a few days in the city. 5 ing to give to the cause, —_——____ VETOES WHIP BILL Honolulu—(?)—Gov. Wallace R. Farrington has let die by pocket veto Providing for men Superintendent McCabe and Attor- | {2 the ney Bullitt of the Northern Pacific are here on business, was in way to Fargo Mrs. Kupltz visited her daughter, Mrs, Anderson, at Fort Yates” this ae FEAns 40D Pointed a member of the highway by Governor Lynn J. — Ain Dickinson to spend some time relatives, Katherine today for Detreit States is one thousand 1,000,000,000. In England many it is oe, million 10 we