The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1929, Page 4

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Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & hha (Incorporated Formerly G. ene Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW (Official City, State ané County Newspaper) HEAD TO COME Japan, like the United States, has its “self-made men” —financial and industrial magnates who started without money or prospects and finished with great wealth and Power. William Philip Simms, American journalist, who has been touring the Island kingdom, has interviewed a number of these men recently. He finds that there is the same spirit of optimism and determination abroad in Japan that there is in the United States; and he adds: “That, I believe, is the secret of Japan's rapid progress. For just as is the case in America, Japanese young people ft might be well to take the talk of the trust-busters se- riously. But leave it to congress and the nation will be largely without power a century hence, is Ford's view. As léng as power rates are nowhere prohibitive and are constantly falling it might be well for the government ‘and public to adopt a “hands off” policy until the task is finished and then grab the power system for the people. TEA DRINKERS The mechanism of business in the United States in time may be halted every afternoon for tea, just as it is in England, where omission of the tea ceremony is regarded as a major calamity. If the practice ever becomes general here it will not be merely as a custom. Rather it will be for that worthiest of purposes of getting more work out of the workers of the land. Temple university scientists in Philadelphia have con- ducted tests which lead to the conclusion that there is a falling curve of efficiency in mid-afternoon which might be eliminated by a brief breathing spell at this time. Adoption of the English tea hour would serve the purpose admirably. Since in most business establishments a large part of the work is usually crowded into the late afternoon hours, nothing might be lost and much gained if the entire Organization took a recess just before the end-of-the-day Temple scientists say. Perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle to putting the plan into operation on this side of the- water isthe great scarcity of tea drinkers in the United States. Mid- afternoon fatigue Is preferable to tea-sipping in the opin- jon of that great number who resist and resent every move to make tea-drinkers of them. A POLICE CHIEF RECANTS ‘The American flapper, apparently, has a certain daunt- lessness before which even the determinatjon of a chief Of police is as nothing. The police chief of a small Illinois city the other day, stirred by the outrages his modesty suffered whenever he walked down the strect, announced that the girls must wear stockings. Any girl, he declared, who appeared on make the sky the limit, however, humble or poor they may be today.” It is a good many years since young men were advised to hitch their wagons to stars. But that advice is still good. What a man becomes depends chiefly on what he wants to become; and when we say that a nation is full of opportunities we really mean that its conditions are such that they inspire very young men to determine on the best. And that, after all, is what has made America a land of Promise ever since its birth. ‘There was a new set-up in this new nation. A peculiar combination of political freedom and unexploited natural resources made America a land where ambition thrived. Any man could look for anything he wanted here, with a reasonable chance of getting it. The cities and towns were new, ready for new ventures; the back country was limitless, waiting for men who could take its open spaces and turn them into cash. Thus democracy came to mean two things. Not only could any poor boy aspire to the presidency when he grew up; he could also aspire to greatness in financial or in- dustrial fields. There were no checks on any kind of am- bition. And, in consequence, America became, and still is, the promised land for the energetic. Today the old situation has changed. No longer are there vast stretches of good farm land awaiting settlers, mighty forests ready for the first industrious timber deal- er, rich mines full of ore for the ready prospector. The natural resources have been largely exploited. The field is nearly closed. Yet the opportunities remain, nevertheless. The great corporations that rule industry and commerce need brains and energy in ever-increasing quantities. The young man who enters their service can be sure that he will have every chance he needs to display his worth. The temper of the times still permits every man to “make the sky the limit.” As long as those conditions last we need not worry about our democracy. It is safe. And, by the same token, if that state of affairs holds good today in Japan—then Japan, too, is becoming a real democracy, even if the nation is only three-quarters of a century from feudalism. WHAT MAKES CITIES Cities can not all have the same and most desirable climate. Cities can not all be seaports nor railroad cen- ters of equal importance. One city must be an agri- cultural center, another is logically a mining center and still another because of natural conditions is an indus- trial community. Because of especially attractive cli- matic conditions some cities prosper as winter or sum- mer resorts. Others benefit because they control the market for a certain type of skilled labor—for example, Detroit and her automobile labor. Because of her geographical location and harbor facil- ities New York is the nation’s greatest metropolis. Chi- cago was destined to become the grain and beef center of the nation. Miami, Florida, is typical of the natural win- ter resort just as Atlantic City was the logical position for the country’s most popular summer shore resort. If every city was not naturally suited for some partic- ular purpose there would be no excuse for its existence and, what is more, it would not exist; but not every city takes the fullest advantage of its potential possibilities, Communities are like individuals in, this respect, perhaps because a community is but a group of individuals. Just as two men, given identical qualities and opportunities, will succeed in varying degrees, so do cities surpass or fall short of others with equal assets. Bismarck came into existence as a distributing point for the new Northwest along the Missouri. River traffic gave way to rail traffic, but Bismarck continued to be a distributing point. It became and remained the hub of the Slope country. The decision recently to establish a memorial community building here recognized this much | © ‘of the city’s natural purpose. In time, when the splendid industrial dreams of John F. Sullivan come into being ‘Bismarck will have new activities thrust on it, but it will Femain the hub city of the Slope. the streets bare-legged would be taken to the city jail. Then he sat back and waited for developments. They came rapidly. The girls who had been going stockingless continued to do so, and defied the chief to arrest them. And, presently, the chief wilted. He rescinded his edict; more, he announced that he had never issued it, and said that anyone who said he had, lied blackly. And there the matter stands. Evidently it takes a strong man to defy the American flapper. ELIMINATING THE GUIDES The city officials of Fredericksburg, Va., have hit upon a system of handling sight-seers that, for its good taste and common sense, deserves to be copied widely. Fredericksburg, scene of Washington's boyhood and filled with interesting historic landmarks, draws many tourists every year. But Fredericksburg docs not Propose to be overrun with sight-seeing busses, leather-lunged guides, and the other paraphernalia of the ordinary tour- ists’ haven. ‘So the city has printed little maps, with the places of interest all marked, numbered and described. And when- ever a tourist comes to town he is given one of these and told to go and show himself around. This scheme is better for the tourist—for who would not Prefer to see the sights that way than to listen to the sing-song speech of a bored guide? And it is better for the town, too. Would that some other of our historic towns could copy it! rush period for a little relaxation and refreshment, the | { THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929 The Greatest ‘Non-Stop Flight’ of All! op Flight’ of Am! For over 60 years Scott Rouse of Toledo, Iowa, had proclaimed himself a woman hater. A sign on the for- bidding fence around his shack warned “Women Keep Out.” Recently Rouse, aged 80, was found gagged with his own beard and bound to suffocation. He died later in a hospital. Neighbors explained that an carly tragic love affair soured him on life and women, especially. “ee LITTLE SYMPATHY Probably there are some who think that his, perhaps not untimely end, considering his age, but at least un- necessarily hard end, was about what he had coming to him, or at least, only about what he could expect. For the mass of humans are not that they can understand or sym- pathize very much. It is queer when a man s0 suc- cumbs, for tradition has it that man, rere ee RR Paes oT | Editorial Comment | WHY IS A CORONER? (Detroit News) While the Detroit bureau of governmental research in- sists we have too many unimportant elective officers, the Journal of the American Medical association brings up the old question: Why is a coroner? This publication finds that numerous investigations of the coroner's office and functions have been made with- in the last few years. The national research council re- Ported in 1928: “It is an anachronistic institution which has conclusively demonstrated its incapacity to perform the functions customarily required of it,” and recom- mended that the medical ‘quties of the office be vested in the office of @ medical examiner as they are in Massa- chusetts—while the non-medical duties be turned over to the proper prosecuting and judicial officers. A Missouri investigation resulted in the recommenda- tion of the Massachusetts system. In New York the in- vestigatofs found that “under the elective coroner's sys: tem, and in the face of exceedingly difficult conditions surrounding successful criminal prosecution, New York city is compelled to get along virtually without aid from the science of legal medicine.”* Two investigations in Cleveland ended with the advice that “the office of coroner should be abolished and a law creating a medical examiner should be enacted.” ‘We have lately witnessed an attempt to fasten, through the legislature, another coroner on Wayne county. Its sole object was to make another job for a politician. It was frustrated largely by the confession of one of the Present coroners that he and his staff had hard work to find enough to do to keep them busy. Nor is the office of coroner by any means the only elective office that the modern community can dispense with. But the money of the taxpayers will continue to be wasted until we have reformed the entire antique system of county government in this state. CRIME AND PUNISHMENTS (8t. Paul Dispatch) “Make the punishment fit the crime” is a warning still heard, though with insufficient insistence, in American legislatures. A prevailing method of combating lawless- ness is to jack up legal penalties. The Jones “five and ten” law, which went no deeper into the national pro- hibition problem than to define violations as felonies and to prescribe five years’ punishment and ten thousand dollars’ fine as the Punishment, is an example. ‘The system does not seem to work. navonal law enforcement commission now is preparing inquire into causes which have made crime more prev- alent in the United States than in any other civilized country. One special phase of the study will deal with Prohibition, violations of which are particularly fla- Grant. Another will concern itself with criminal proced- ure, which often seems to lend itself to escape rather than to conviction of offenders. Drastic penalties and prev- alent crime appear to exist side by side in America. If the national law enforcement commission goes: back, ‘a6 it no doubt will, into the history of American criminal law, it may find that much of the present trouble grew directly out of failure long ago to make the punishment American judicial practice is largely British in origin. Crime was prevalent in England at the time this country broke ceed to constitute preg an independent nation. Previous to the the prevailing means of com- bating Igwiessness in England was to provide savage pian In 1775, one hundred and sixty-four felon- were punishable by death. At the end of each cour' fen pails os eae ee The British public's revolt against this harsh system is now history. Juries began refusing to convict. The courts devised numerous technicalities ot subter- can pass on from one heartache to a new joy. Women are given a little; more leeway with their emotions, but even they are scored if they suc- cumb too much. see POOR GEORGE new fascinating The “Intimate find little understanding today; not even with the world of women, most ; of whom simply cannot comprehend ; how, in what they term this “world of so many more interests than the woman who pined from love affair: had,” any woman could be so crushed by what seems so trivial to them— trivial, in words at least. George Sand’s journal or collection of letters to her lover, Alfred de Musset, are grist for the modern psychiatrist who finds here a typical; hit so hard by these heart tragedics | 9 and interest in a lovesick woman. One can remember scores of men who have done this to women whom they once loved and the women who still loved them. D’Annunzio did it to Duse, to cite just one other cad like de Musset. Would we had more Isa- dora Duncans to turn the tables occasionally! zee THE DIVORCE CITY Chicago carned her title of “the na- tion's divorce capital” this last year more than ever before, according to figures just released which show that Chicago had one divorce to every three marriages last year. Eighty-five per cent of the divorces were granted on a charge of desertion and cruelty, which really means very little, for when a divorce can be despite our laws to the contrary, the bulk of all divorces are uncontested and are a matter of collusion between the parties, as they should be. BARBS e Tammany Hall is hailing both Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt as} the next president. The theory is; { probably that two wets are better than one. > eee A Toledo bootlegger shot down a ; ary agent. That's something like Lit- tle Eva beating up Uncle Tom. * oe OK You can always win an argument | Journal of George Sand” probably can | With a woman by listening. =e ® Texas Guinan, night club hostess, calls herself the Joan of Arc of Broadway. She certainly knows how to charge. | se * | A_ scientist discovers that men's clothing is too heavy and women's too j light. Is there no end to the miracles {of science? -* * In accordance with our annual cus- ;tom of printing the week's best hea AN ANTIDOTE versation. brother. “You're putting too much sugar on your cereal, Tommy. Tommy! know mamma doesn't allow you to gained for nothing else, that old | have three spoons full at home.” And: hokum, “desertion and cruelty,” is| “ glibly dragged out—mostly because, | Chew, and look! your ear. mess.” joined the long table. (By Alice Judson Peale) During the first week of camp Jule sat at the table opposite her younger brother. During every meal her shrill, aggressive voice dominated the con- But especially did she make life miserable for that younger “Tommy, close your mouth when you ‘You've got egg under Really, you're a perfect A few days later two boys a little older than Jule came to camp and Jule, sitting ARCHITECTS OF HEALTH It is quite within the possibility of reasoning to suppose that all disease will eventually disappear from the face of the earth. There are many in- dividuals now living who have never known a serious illness. Once the means by which these people remain well becomes generally known, there is no reason why everyone cannot ex- perience a continued state of health. Many doctors are now coming to realize nat it is far more important the individual against all diseases than to vaccinate against specific diseases. Hygiene and sanitation are ‘now recognized as being a very im- portant part of health maintenance. Prevention is better than cure, be- cause every disease must leave its destructive scars and weakening in- fluence. The time will undoubtedly come when a doctor will be regarded as an architect or builder of health rather than an antagonist of disease. But it will probably require the passage of many years before we have completely discarded the idea that disease is a sort of enemy or evil thing to combat. ‘We must substitute the thought that health is a possession to be treasured. When everyone has learned to live by healthful habits and has the het itage of health from several gener: tions of healthy ancestors, the human body should be so resistant as to re- fuse to act as a host to disease. Every child, from the cradle up should be taught the habit of health, not only by words, but by example. Once a health habit has been formed, it is just as hard to break as any other habit, and it is so important that the correct habits be formed during the time when the child's body is molding and becoming set into its adult form. A strong, healthy child is not only more intelligent in school, but has a reserve of vital energy to carry him through many of the squalls and ty- phoons of life which would swamp a frailer craft. Among the more important habits to cultivate is a fondness for out- door games. One who enjoys play- ing in the sunshine and fresh air is much more resistant to infection. One should also be taught to like the right kind of foods. There is no reason for believing that wholesome foods are more unpleasant to eat than un- wholesome ones. The desire for the right kind of food is largely a mat- ter of positive suggestion and good cooking. A regularity of sleep is more im- You with children. Good mental habits, too, play their part in the health GZ CLAN S S opposite those fine sturdy lads, was a very different Jule from the girl who bedeviled her younger brother. dule's voice was pleasant. She didn’t didn’t talk half so much. She even try to monopolize the conver- | sation, The big boys and the other girls of her own age had something to say, and they were quite able to Jule's manner became posi- The best antidote for Jule's aggressiveness had been found and she herself remained entirely un- say it. tively gentle. conscious of its working. An_ adolescent girl who does not care how disagreeable she makes her- self at the family dinner table will mend her ways very quickly under the of her own age, especially if these are members of eyes of friends Settlement of trouble with Chile that almost led to serious complica- tions was made on July 17, 1892. On this date, United States Minister Eagan accepted an indemnity of $75,- 000 from the Chilean government in settlement of the Chile affair.” During a Chilean civil war, the United States had taken sides with the established government. When rebels captured Valparaiso, where there were many Americans, includ- ing a number of sailors on shore leave from the United States steamship to buiid up the natural immunity of | cises, HEALTH “DIET ADVICE wth ho Sass’ Mey to Fea Petty ie intr | 10 Male regime. If these more more important habits are strongly developed, it is likely that other healthful processes will come naturally, such as deep Gist, addressed to him, onre of the Tribune. envelope for reply. breathing, regular elimination, exer- etc. The doctor of the future should be able to examine the patient and de- termine which part, whether physical or mental needs developing, and a should be able to create a tion of healthful practices in such an attractive manner that the patient will soon follow it of his own accord * QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Buzzing in Ears Question—H. K. L. writes: “I had my tonsils removed three years ago and ever since have had a in my head and ears which is worse at night when I lie down. Does this trouble come from having removed the tonsils, and what can I do to re. Heve it? Am fifty-six, and well oth- erwise.” = Answer—The entrance to the ear tube leading to the ear from the throat is sometimes injured by the tonsil operation, but such injury the buzzing in your head is caused by the same catarrhal condition that_you had before the tonsils were removed. Soda in Question—Mrs. 8. asks: “Is the use of soda in food harmful as | aged it into tomatoes while cook! soda, except that the fruit acids have value in stimulating digestion and this help is lost if the soda is used. Exercise Question—J. H. J. writes: “Please state what the final result will be if @ person who has been used to an outdoor life, such as farming, is shut off for months from the exercise that such a life gives?” Answer—Of course, the results will be bad if a person who is used to exercise outdoor portant for building health, especially | condition. turned to his home in Fargo. Colonel Howell, of the staf, has come to Bismarck and will remain for the rest of the convention, Charles P. Eckles | leaves Bismarck today for New York City, where he will enter the employ of the Erie rail- Mrs. L. A. Couch and ¢ hildren are visiting with i 8°E. Brindle family of Hazelton. the opposite sex. Try = it. its appearance. HERE'S REAL BAD LUCK Conn. — Fred South Manchester, Invite your daughter's friends, boys and girls, to share your family -meal and you will find that fraternal bickerings will cease and a hitherto unknown social grace make Baltimore, there naturally was much ill feeling against Americans. A mob attacked the American sail- ors, killing one. However, trouble between the two nations was averted lap poten reer ean government a $75,000 ‘nderbnity. neurotic woman genius, utterly in-| line, here is one from a New Jersey |Krah can claim some sort of cham- ewspaper: “Fireman Saved by Mis-| pionship over the bad luck he had re- ake cently. While he was Here a —. capable of being normal while dis: turbed by her love shock. have deserved criticism in her own day or now, surely nothing about her and her attitude can so shock us as Members of the Kn Knights of are holding their fifth ann sion in the city today and Pythias annual ses- tomorrow. Miss Catherine McDonald the City National bank has gone to ‘Ports 2,” But how much George Sand may | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | bor appeared and told him hi was on fire. He tied his fish The tree-frog has the power of | string and dropped them on Ichanging color to resemble more | He found his house destroyed, to learn that her lover to whom she j closely the surface upon which it de- {returning for his fish found sent this soul-naked collection of let- | ters turned them over to his brother | and friend to satisfy their curiosity sires to be inconspicuous. It can] placed them directly above the change from a dark hue to a light |of a turtle and that it had one in about 20 minutes, them. WaT 2~Mo WANT! SEE f VAR FINE ART RUK fa. WAT, How! ModcH 2? wm OH-H-H-- VAR YEE~ EEP, DU~UNNER FRANC, ~~~ ~ AWK DOLLAR, You MONEY ! ~~ YES —~No 2 f OH-H-H PLIZZ,~SEE, VAR FINE, aw VAR YeE-EEP wsieu f CONFOUND. You, ME ALONE ~TooT SWEET f.~ ~I TOLD You THRICE BEFORE I DON'T WANT TO BUY YouR ATROCIOUS RUG ! ~~ HAVING VERY FINE KASHANS AND SAROUKS AT HOME. L WaULDAT USE “THAT “To SMOTHER A Fire! GO, BEFORE [ HAIL A POLiIce haere. Ia ii mM Hi i a il “Many of these ‘half-way folks get by, but they never get far. There is always a premium in business on the man who does his work painstakingly, with completeness and finality.”—WJ. Ogden ania ee * “Just so long as we believe in a gov- pit which are inherent in any system that diverts us as a nation into paths oth- er than those which we have traveled tothe success that is ours today.”— Roger W. Babson. se & “Girls have some values everywhere, ue in such regions as Papua and youth.”—R. le Clere Phillips. (North American Review.) * land, Ore. to visit for a month. Miss Esther ‘Taylor has gone and Alexandria, “4 Globe, Pmsec gin » got angry with his wife recently and swore @ complaint and had ‘ ; OH property.” It was revealed later that the car was jointly owned. NOVICE LEARNS RAPIDLY Beaumont, ee onal cat Frank oil man, claims a Fn fo padi dng air. plane. stayed in the air 4 48 a