The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1929, Page 4

4 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929 The Bismarck Tribune Am Indepenéent Newspaper THE STATES ULDESI NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) —_ $$ — —$ Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- marek, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck class mail matter. George D. Mann ................ President and Publisnes Subecription Rates Payable in Advance Weekly by mail, in state. per year ....... ‘Weekly by mail, in state. three years for Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Audit Buareae of Cirealation | Back-seat driving has called for many remarks from | | the wiseacres and the zealous wives of meek husbands ‘there are many back-seat drivers out of the automobile. | others to assume the responsibility. He is untiring in his | | aye! world is all wrong but, besides complaining, he would | the criminal class has gained control over many of the | | larger cities, and that the average law-abidding citizen | twiddies his thumbs and wonders why somebody docsn't | do something about it. In the meantime the criminal is | | taking every advantage of the listless or too easily in- fuenced authorities. have been the butt of most of these jokes. However, A back-seat driver criticizes legislation and the admin- | istration of government, but refuses to run for an office | and fails to make his vote count for good government, if he votes. He knows how to run the town but expects demands for better government and civic improvement, but never tires himself working for such betterment. The not lift a finger to right it. Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the loca! news of spontaneous origin publisheo herein rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS € oes a 6 Formerly G. jan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State an@ County Newspaper) ITS EASIER TO PATCH ‘Things have to be spectacular to arouse our sympathies. We can't see hardship or distress unless they send up rockets for us. A few days ago a homeless middle-aged New Yorker tried to kill himself by inhaling gas. He did not quite succeed; somebody found him and hurried him off to a hospital, and for hour after hour oxygen was pumped into his lungs to keep him alive. His case aroused great interest; strangers sent money and offered to help him in any way they could. For a short time it looked as if all of New York were chiefly interested in keeping one unknown derelict from dying. Now that sort of thing is all very encouraging, to be sure. But it is very fortunate that we don't get busy until it is almost too late. A man can walk the streets, hungry and penniless, for days without getting a helping hand. It is only whén he tries to end his life and does All; | | something that plops him on to the front pages that we | wake up and try to do something for him. Yet the ounce of prevention is still worth more than; the pound of cure, just as it always has been. The only trouble is that the pound of cure is easier to apply. Several years ago a young reporter in a mid-western city stumbled onto a family that was on the verge of actual starvation. children were huddled around a stove in a barren house. ‘Their last stick of wood was in the fire; there was not &@ bite to eat in the place. The husband and father, it developed, was a World war veteran. He had not been able to get steady work since being demobilized, had gone nearly frantic over his inability to provide for his family, and had finally snatched a purse on the street. Arrested, he was then in jai] awaiting trial. The reporter got a photographer, and the family's plight was broadcast to all the city. Things happened at once. A lawyer donated his servicts to help the veteran out of his difficulties with the law. Other people contributed moncy, food and fuel to the family. Half & dozen business firms offered the veteran a job. Everything was smoothed over, and the family was snatched from the brink of tragedy. Now that was very encouraging and all that—just as New York's eagerness to bring back life to a would-ve suicide has been encouraging. But why don't we dig below the surface of things and remove the cause of such tragedies? Why con't we realize, for instance, that such tragedies as that of the war veteran are the inevitable aftermath of all wars? Why don't we realize that our present social | and economic system will always toss stragglers by the wayside? Why? Well, thinking is too much trouble. step on the toes of a few of our pet prejudices. pound of cure is the easier thing to apply. We might The HOOVER DEMANDS ACTION Characteristic of the Hoover way of doing things was his decision to have the new farm board organize at once, even before its entire personnel has been recruited. His determination to lose no time provides a reassuring contrast with the dilatoriness of congress. The president has been most prompt in his appoint- ments. The board would have been completed days ago! had not some of Mr. Hoover's selections found accept- ances entailed too great a personal sacrifice. In some instances the most logical men for the appointments have not been available, and Mr. Hoover is not content with second-rate men. Thus far the chief executive has been signally suc- cessful in naming men meeting the wide public approval. Typical of the public's reaction was the South's satis- faction over the naming of Carl Williams 1s the expert on cotton. As an instrument for farm relief the farm board has already accomplished something. The character of the President's appointments and his celerity have raised the farmers’ morale. He is looking forward hopefully to the effects which the combjnation of first rate executive adn administrative skill and ample treasury backing will have on his marketing situation. RAILROADS IN THE AIR Air-rail transportation is a fact. One transcontinen- tal service by train and plane is already in operation, and before its inaugural trip was concluded another system ‘was in process of formation. Today speed demands that transcontinental travelers go by train by night and plane by day. But this develop- ment does not augur that the next logical and inevitable step will be plane both by day and night. Rather the néw mode of travel utilizing both rails and wings refutes ‘the extravagant claims of those who are so airminded that they have become a little light-headed. ‘The airplane is less likely to take the place of the railroads than to become an auxiliary of the railroads. | sian, if indeed he has heard of China at all, knows and | | Still, these ignorant peasants are the men who would | labor. A mother and three small, ragged | | fortune by writing a book on how to resist a high- This dispensable breed of citizen is content to coast | | along in the back seat, voice his criticisms and never j make an attempt to pitch in and help. It is easy to | prescribe but hard to cure, and those who are ding something tangible toward bettering things deserve | praise not disparagement. “RUSSIA” AND “CHINA” It is easy to be misled by newspaper headlines, which | often give a wrong impression, even while sticking | strictly to the facts. For instance: the papers lately have been saying that “Russia” demands that “China” give up the railway it has seized, and that “China” is adopting a threatening attitude, while “Russia” is ready to take stern measures— and so on. | Now that is all very true if you consider that a foreign j office constitutes @ nation. It is not at all true if you | consider the nations in the mass. The average Chinese | has never even heard of Russia; and the average Rus- cares no more about the seized railway than he does about the mountains of the moon. have to go out and die if the two nations got to fighting. PROFESSORS’ SALARIES College professors themselves are chiefly responsible for their low salaries, according to a committee of Yale professors which has just completed a survey of the subject. The professorial habit of increasing the number of | Professors in any given college or university as fast as | new funds become available, says the committee, makes low salaries inevitable. Its report warns that such sal- aries will never go up until the number of professors stops going up: ; ‘The professors might well take a tip from organized Union men long ago found that a surplus of men means a reduction in pay. The same thing, apparently, hoids good in the cloistered halls of higher learning. The day seems gradually to be waning when a picture | | of a bathing beaut was considered persuasive advertising / | for such divers articles as automobiles, floor wax and | | five-cent candy bars. The fall hat will be lighter this year than last. says a male dress authority in one of the 35-cent magazines. Wonderful what these dry cleaners can do nowadays. | Scientists have found skeletons with a third eye in | the top of the head, which indicates that Nature fore- | Saw the airplane and tried to avert stiff neck. The Scotch are drinking less whiskey. according to | statistics, but distillers might recoup by seliing labels to | ; American manufacturers. | Another maker of large cars announces a little addi- tion to the family. The new model's weight at birth is given as 2,100 pounds, If the poor really get the 15 per cent that income tax- | Payers claim to give, that may explain where the dead | broke get their car: rateeaeeeciaesses | Some of these modern psychologists could make al Powered salesman. Vanity attends us all, wherefore the hen cackles when \ she achieves an egg and man sings when he takes a bath. It is now feared that bobbing may cause baldness. It is certain to make the hair shorter, at any rate. It is still true that money talks, but in these strenuous days it takes a $10 bill to speak above a whisper. rr Editorial Comment | —_—_— THE SPIRIT THAT CARRIES ON (Toledo Blade) Something that can never be replaced, something for which there is no substitute—something eneihine. and vital to historical association, will have gone out of the current of life when there is no longer to be seen in city street or country piace a man in the distinctive blue uniform of the Grand Army of the Republic. When that day comes there will be not one left with the right to say he helped to keep all the ctars in the flag. Alas, when that day comes, as it must, for years will not be denied their toll, the most tragic chapter in our history will have lost human contact with modern affairs—and there will be not one to say he saw the sad face of Lin- coln, or that he was with Grant or Sherman or Sheridan. But there is a spirit that carries on among the vet- ; crans yet in the quick. It was manifest in the state ; Ment in Wisconsin. encampment in Wisconsin. Gen. E. B. Heimstreet, as- sistant adjutant general of the Wisconsin department, 4s quoted as having said: “As long as there are two Civil war veterans left who can march we are going to have an annual Grand Army of the Republic encamp- No thought of surrender there. As long as there are two left who can march! Sorrow- ful day when the decimation is complete. REAL BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Mere man has at last got up his courage to speak on the subject of dress reform. . ne He may still submit to being draped in the society column in “conventional black” and to having his clothes standardized, but there is one point at which to the finish. collar for it FI La Tj a | i ie i fis fri ae Brothers Under the Skin! Che iDAY.... A Cleveland judge recently got mad at a critical editorial written about him and sued the paper's henchmen en masse for such not-nice things as “libel” and “contempt of court” and a few other labeled misdemeanors. Just one of the many daily ex- amples in the news of a turning of the tables on some of the traditionally | male and female virtues. When women first began getting Public jobs, there was much hue and cry to the effect that they wouldn't have their toes stepped cn; that they were too sensitive: that women “got mad and would not pi ; that they'd cry if unkind things were said about them. x * * OTHER WAY It is only of late, and even now only rarely, that artoonist dared take his pen or pencil and make havoc with the face of a female. But we have heard of few women in public office, or in any sort of job, for that matter, raising ha to-do when their personal vanity is assailed, as do men. Perhaps it’s because women know that pettiness is expected of them that they restrain themselves. Perhaps it’s because men are de- creed to be broad-minded and gener- ous and above pettiness that they can get Away with exhibits of terrific smallness. -“* £ ° “PERSONALITY” Personality is the thing sought by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut in selecting his candidates for West Point. He calls in a committee to interview his applicants and tells them to grade the boy on personality solely, “Personality” is an clusive thing. In women it called “charm.” Women withou’ it have learned the smacks the world can give them, may not feel badly to know that the male sex is beginning to know the discrim- ination that comes to those with and those without. * * * 2 WHAT OF IT? Much to-do is made over the fact that 26-year-old Ishbel MacDonald will serve as hostess for her widower nds | 7 | father, Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's | | labor premier. j This meaas that Miss Ishbel will | confer with her very competent staff of servants each morning, okay or suggest a change in the day’s menu, | tell which flowers she wants in which | room, and preside as hostess at her | father’s table and stand with him 1n | the receiving line. | It's probably one of those well- | known femalish-catty remarks. but | just why any young woman of 26 | should be lauded for such a job is be- | yond me! Most young ladies would give their eye-teeth for the chance. x * BEAUTY LOSES: And here's another lovely lady | Whose beauty did not seem to give | her happiness, despite our deep-/ | Seated belief that if a girl has beauty | she needs nothing else. This particu- |iar beauty, Miss Edna Foster, who had | carried off first beauty contest honors | in_a suburb of Cincinnati, married one ‘Dr. Raymond Barkon,” supposediy | scion of a rich and titled English jline. When the beauty discovered | that she was wife number two andj ¢; ‘that her heir was an ex-convict, she had her marriage annulled. | The “scrapes” which beauties seem capable of getting into are not a bid, for pity for beauties so much as envy! | After all, even “scrapes” are better than the humdrum living which so many girls who are not beauties must endure. o—_________9| i BARBS | o We are all born free and equal according to the constitution, and some of us remain equal. A city in Kansas does not levy or collect taxes. Some towns ought to pay the people a little something to live in them. Some day some great hero is going to set up an endurance record for minding one’s own business and that will be news. Admiral Magruder has got his old job in the navy back after being laid off for two years because he criticized a few things in the department. Wish we could get a nice vacation that easily. | While Mr. Mellon was fixing up our money why didn’t he think of issuing a new $1.98 bill It would have been so Bane during the summer bargain sal | is absorbed in housekeeping and | achieve a sense of comradeship by | reading aloud to the children every | child than the society of an adult | who himself has strong enthusiasms ‘least some of them, have been thought crazy by a good number of people in ; ‘court psychiatrist here, partly proves Talks Tos $. HOBBIES FOR GROWNUPS (By Alice Judson Peale) | Children must often find their grown-ups fearfuily dull. Father does nothing but work and talk business and read the stock mar- | ket columns in the newspaper. Mother | homemaking. Neither father nor, mother ever seems to do anything ‘ just for fun. Even their parties and | club meetings go by the name of / “social obligations.” When children of such parents are | planning good times they would never | think of asking their parents to join | them. True, these same parents may, with the best of motives, take their | children on conscientious “pleasure They may even attempt to evening just before bedtime. But as long as they do these things from a sense of duty, the children reflect their lack of joyous spontaneity. Nothing is so infectious as delight. | And nothing is more delightful to a| and vivid satisfactions. A father who plays tennis with skill and zest, a mother who is keen about her garden, an uncle who actu- ally gets up early to watch the birds, these have something real to offer children. An adult with a hobby is never colorless or uninteresting. es- pecially when he is willing to share the experience which to him is so satisfying. Cultivate your hobbies. Cultivate them primarily for their own sake, but also for the sake of the joy which you thus will communicate to your children. Share your enthu- siasms with your children and they will share theirs with you. JUST AS WE THOUGHT Detroit.—Automobile drivers, at the past. A test taken at random by Dr. Theophile Raphael, recorder’s it. Out of 100 drivers tested, all of them traffic violators, one was insane, 13 were classed as feeble minded and 42 were of inferior intelligence. PEEKCHAIR POSTCARTS OOF PAREE M’SIEU! ~~ VAR EXSAYVLONG VIEWS Pe ~~ WAIT WAN MINOOT, I stow You GRAND SOOVWAR MAGNIFIQUE PHOTOS OOF SEETAY, | | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern SEEING Bus HME, I, TWELVE DRAT IT! ~YoU MAKE “THE FIFTH Post CARD VENDORHAT [ie HAS STOPPED ME! ~~ EGAD, You FELLOWS AND THE’ SIGHT- TAKE ME FOR A“TOURIST fae A CITIZEN OF PARIS FoR PA r i BARKERS Must THAT HAVE BEEN YEARS / Me .THE MEMORY NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE There is a belief held by many people that something once learned is never forgotten, but remains as long as life lasts, stored in the re- cesses of the brain. However, there is no evidence that this is true. Our memory pictures are recorded in some way upon the protoplasm of the brain cells and because there are continual metabolistic changes go- ing on in these cells, the pictures are not fixed, but are subject to grad- ual alterations. It is very easy to understand how a destructive disease affecting the memory cells will greatly disturb or destroy the stored memories. For- getting is a normal process. Every- one a poor memory. It is only when the normal limits of forgetful- eeded or when the the place of mem- cian becomes in- ny people reca!l lots of things arer true. One suffering the events of childhood and youth, although unable to recall the events of the previous week. Frequently, however, the memories of childhood and youth, which seem to be recalled with such startling vividness, have been so greatly touched by the imag- ination as to be quite untrue as to actual happening. An old man may im he was in such a war, met cer @m slebritics, or traveled through various countries, and he may give all of the details and be- lieve them, himself, when he actually was nowhere in the vicinity. The mind misrepresents facts. | metimes, they are exaggerated, diminished, or curiously — twisted. Judges soon come to realize that wit- nesses frequently make false state- ments and false identifications, not because of desiring to falsi i statements, but because the perception of memory is faul Patients will often quite ly describe wholly fictitious ef childhood which never occurred, although they may scem quite true to the affected person. The mind is iso susceptible to suggestions that it has been said that if one hears a lie or a story frequently enough, one will come to believe it to be a fact. In endeavoring to recall elusive facts from out of the maze of memory, one instinctively fills in the missing links with the fabric of imagination. One’s memory may be, good inj most respects, but only weak in a special manner. For example, one forget the memories associated ith hearing or the memories con- nected with sight. In some diseases, the patient can only think of disease symptoms, and in others, there are troublesome obse Epileptics QUESTIONS IN REGARD TO HEALTH € DIET WILt SE ANSWERED enccoy ADDRESSED Wt CARE OF SAPER Gikots STAAPED MODRESSEO BAVA POM REPLY le dementia recalls vividly A | sometimes lie in a twilight cow | scious state for periods which tn—- cannot afterwards consciously re- i] Dr. McCoy will gledly answer diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. cAdresced Enclose @ stamped |] envelope for reply. nn TT | ‘call. Sometimes the first symptoms | of serious mental diseases are indi- \cated by extreme forgetfulness or | twisted recollections. ; | It is difficult to judge whether forgetfulness is a blessing or a mis- fortune. It would not be good if our minds were cluttered up with endless | varieties of unimportant details or made melancholy by stored up sad ‘recollections. On the other hand, it | would be well for us if we could re- call the useful facts of life and the | pleasanter events. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Neuritis Question—Mrs. H. K. I. writes: “I ave been bothered with neuritis for two years. Have been to several doctors, but have not had much re- lief. Am very nervous and anemic. What can I do to gain my health?” Answer—There are two principal causes of neuritis; one is a toxic con- dition of the blood, similar to rheu- matism, and the other cause is from pinched nerves somewhere between the painful part and the spinal cord. An osteopath or chiropractor can us- ually remove this latter cause, and the toxic condition is cured by diet- ing, exercising, and living according to good hygienic rules. Milk Question—Ann D. writes: “I read in your column that milk should no be taken with sandwiches. When should milk be used?” Answer—Never use milk with sandwiches. or with regular meals. ilk should be taken by itself, or combined with one lind of fruit, or with only non-starchy vegetables. Irritation from False Teeth Question—Mrs. J. L. writes: “I have an upper set of false teeth. The plate cracked a tew months ago, and caused a slight cut in my tongue. It smarts quite a bit, especially at night. Do you think there is any danger of cancer?” Answer—Any irritated spot ‘a the body may be the seat of the growth of a cancer and therefore all irrita- tion should be avoided. If your saliva is normally alkaline, it fur- nishes an excellent antiseptic for your mouth, but at this time it might be well for you to treat the spot on your tongue with silver nitrate, mer- curochrome, or some astringent. (Copyright, 1929, The Bell Syndi- | cate, Ine.) a a SETTLEMENT OF DETROIT Sieur De La Mothe Cadillac, first commandant of the French territory around Lake Michigan, made the first permanent settlement of the site of Detroit on July 24, 1701. Detroit, however, had been visited by Frenchmen as far back as 1648, but history dates its founding on the day Cadillac arrived and built Fort Pont- chartrain and established a small | trading station. In 1760, an English force under Major Rogers drove the Frenchmen out. In 1778, a new fort was built. At this time, Detroit numbered 300 living in rude log cabins. | At the end of the Revolutionary War, Detroit passed into the hands of the Americans. However, the English flag again ruled over Detroit for a few months | during the war of 1812 when General | Hull surrendered the post to a Brit- ish force under General Brock. It was returned to the Americans in 1813. in In recent years, Detroit has Passed the million mark in population, “The advance of humanity in a hundred or a thousand years 1s great, in a million years is inconceiv- able. But as far as we know, the human race, having once begun, may easily continue for another ten mil- lion years or more.”—Sir Oliver Lodge. * * xk “If mankind is not to be made into appendages to machines, then domes- tic machines must be invented that | will enable the home to mect the competition of the factory.”—Ral| Borsodi. (The New Republic) is * * * “There is nothing more entranci than a brook in the spring, when the leaves are “large as a mouses’s ear,"— Theodore Roosevelt. (Liberty) ‘Those aes 4 “7 now interested in profes- sional sport have been and Rnty pa highly successful business men, But they want freedom and recreation and they are finding it today in horses, fighters, ball players and “While the modern woman been forging ahead, the man Bas te mained stationary. Indeed, he has been so smugly complacent about his superiority, phy: and men- tally, that he hasn't realized he has been gradually loging it. If he doesn’ take himself in hand, we will un- Detroit was incorporated as a town 1802. |accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Ball, have gone to the Pacific coast, where they will remain for several weeks. Mr. Drake of the South Dakota commission has gone to Aberdeen to close the sale of his paper, the Aber- deen Pioneer, to A. J. Parshall. Says an editorial in The Tribune: “In the distribution of juicy plums soon to fall from the political tree in North Dakota, Valley City is likely to Present a most excellent candidate for attorney general in the person of Hon. John W. Scott.” TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Catherine Ryan has returned | from a visit in Jamestown. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Best are visiting relatives in Devils Lake. About 400 excursionists fromt the south Soo line were in the city yes- terday for the ball game between Wishek and Bismarck and to attend other events of interest. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hoskins have returned from Minneapolis, where they went to attend the funeral of Judge Cochrane. | TEN YEARS AGO Rev. E. C. Vermilya leaves tonight for Minneapolis to attend a meeting of the district superintendents of the Methodist Episcopal church. \ att Mrs. O. M. Young and daughter Margaret, who have been visiting at the home of Mrs, Obert Olson, have returned to Bowman. | Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Clark left to- day by car for Virginia City, Mont. where they will spend the rest of the summer. Mr. and Mrs, George V. Halliday have returned from a two weeks’ va- ‘cation spent at Pettibone . Shoreham, and at the Minnesota lake | Tesorts. ‘The oldest Congregational minister |in Wisconsin is the Rev. H. A. Miller | Of Madison, who is 100.