The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 4

« The Bismarck Tribune 4 ** © Daily by mail, outside of North Dal “* weekly by mail, in state, per year : rocteneres = ener: seen An Independent Newspaper . THE STATE'S ULVEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- wmarck, N.D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘second class mail matter. Georne D. Mann ................ President and Publisner é Subscription Rates Payable in Advance * Daily by carrier per year Daily by mail, per year (in Dally by mail, per year, Gn state, outside Bismarck) in state, three yet outside of North Dakota, ‘Weekly by mi . Weekly by mai per year . ‘ Member Audit Bureas of Circulation eee © Member of The Associated Press ‘The ‘Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin publishea herein. All tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. cn Rene ey x Foreign Representative; SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE SHIPPERS MEETING The meeting here, Tuesday, of the Northwest Shippers Regional Advisory board had several merits, one of which ‘was the enlightenment of the community on shipping movements in relation to the agricultural industry of the Northwest and, particularly, of North Dakota. It was of a tendency to incite and spread thinking along economic fines and thus create the mind that looks for rational ‘solutions of problems in agriculture rather than seek “+ Jegislative panaceas of a radical and uneconomic nature which mislead and betray those for whose benefit they are advocated. Grain growers who followed the proceedings of the board meeting must see that there is more to their prob- lems to be worked out by cooperative processes than by the fiat of laws. It will tend to develop patience with the business world. The revelations of the session were strikingly valuable at this time as bearing on the movement in the states of North Dakota and Montana to develop a farm storage system of handling grain as a means to stabilizing prices —and better ones, at that, than helter-skelter marketing at harvest time heretofore has been able to assure the farmers. The session was a big contribution to the facts that pertain to grain storage and marketing. It em- phasized the fact that natural laws will prevail in spite of cleverly contrived systems to override them, and that these natural laws can be of benefit and advantage as well as of loss and disadvantage. All this was brought out in consideration of the price factor arising in the present grain situation by the par- tial failure of the grain crops of the Northwest and Can- ada and which shippers, railroad and terminal authori- ties now are striving to fathom as an influence on ter- minal storage. Farmers are more so interested in the sit- uation as it will affect the prices which they may ob- tain on their diminished harvests. The result is that sell- ers, buyers and handlers are all interested in the same set of future facts and conditions. For this regton, then, it was a helpful circumstance that this meeting was held here, in the midst of a great grain producing area where people are ripe to learn about the economic cur- rents affecting their products. Tte shippers board heretofore has been averse to coming so far west to hold one of its four sessions. It would be a good plan in the future to continue the Precedent established Tuesday and make Bismarck one of the points at which to hold regular summer sessions, or at least frequent sessions. Such sessions have been held in other seasons in South Dakota and in Montana. It should not be that the immense agricultural area in be- tween Montana and Minnesota should be neglected as heretofore up to Tuesday. With the erection of its community building, Bismarck will be well equipped to handle such meetings with facilities it did not have at its command Tuesday, and the shippers board will find this city a good place to come in the future—a better place even than Tuesday. BOSTON NEWSPAPERS ARE GROWING Seven New York City newspaper publishers were inter- viewed a few days ago on the subject of the increase in newspaper circulation, which has so multiplied in re- cent years as to force itself upon the public's attention. An unusual number of important news events, im- provements in the quality of newspapers, a widespread growth in popular education, an extension of interests on the part of newspaper readers, and a growing practice of reading from three to five newspapers a day, instead of one or two, are some of the reasons ascribed for the gen- eral increase in circulation. ‘The public is more interested in newspapers for two reagons:’Comparison of the papers of today with those of 20 years ago will suffice to show why those of today at- tract more readers. And it is evident that the masses are-more alert, more interested in public affairs and cur- rent events, and more consistent readers than evet in the past. This growing intelligence of the Public is reflected in the tremendous sales of books on history. science, philosophy and biography. Americans wish to be in- formed as well as amused. Competition has foreed publishers to produce better newspapers. Each publisher has striven to give readers greater value. Today newspapers are better printed and eamler to read. And circulation managers have procured new outlets and devised ingenious methods of delivery to make their papers accessible to greater numbers. Another considerable factor in the increased circulation, especially in cities having two or more newspapers, is the fact that even among those who, in the past, have been cogtent with the frothier types of papers, there is a de- veloping interest in the more serious, general news of the day* Which prompts them, even while adhering to their firs néwspaper love, to supplement their reading with snother. paper devoting more space to solid reading and news. i LONG DISTANCE GAS ereatl | i i il | Kansas City is soon to be connected with the Texas gas fields by a gas main 450 miles long and capable of de- livering 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. As to distance, then, there is nothing visionary about the German scheme, in which enginecrs, economists and labor leaders in the fatherland are showing keen inter- est. The element of competition with electricity is in itself-a matter of interest. Though the public may be under the impression that electricity is taking the place of gas, consumption of gas in the United States has in- creased 375 per cent in the last two decades and is ex- pected to increase fivefold in the next 20 years. ‘The same may be true in Europe. In the German ex- periment, gas generated at coal mines of the Ruhr ts to be supplied at high pressure at homes as far distant as 450 miles, thus providing a single, colossal battery of gas retorts for all Germany, transforming local gas compan- ies into mere retailers of centrally produced gas. Such is the startling urdertaking on which a coal utilization company of Essen is about to embark. The Ruhr cannot utilize the enormous quantities of gas which is a by-prod- uct in the manufacture of blast-furnace coke. Nothing worries a chemist more than waste. Hence this single, national gas plant. This German project is the first rational plan for the generation of energy at the mine mouth and its dis- tribution over distances as great as any thus far reached by electric transmission lines. Engineers have dis- missed as impractical the scheme for generating elec- tric power at the mine mouth for distribution over an area comprising several states. At least up to this time such schemes have encountered insuperable obstacles. But there are no such obstacles in way of long-distance distribution of gas. THE AUTO, THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY A good many weighty articles have been written telling how the automobile has brought the farmer into contact with the city. Good roads and fast machines have ended the tra- diticnal isolation of the country districts. The hick is being done to death by Henry Ford and his co-workers. But, on the other hand, the automobile has brought the city dweller into contact with the open country. And that, considering the cramping tumult of the average city, is quite an achievement. In rural regions, a few years ago, the city boy was looked upon with a sort of contempt. He was astound- ingly ignorant; he couldn't tell a horse from a sheep, and he thought the docile cow in the farmyard was apt to bite him. Today the city-bred youngster is different. He has been places and seen things. His father's auto has car- ried him into the country time and again; and if he knows nothing about farm life, he at least can recognize the Hvestock he sees in the meadows, and he knows a field of green corn from a white expanse of blossoming buckwheat. Now all of this is rather important. For if the auto- mobile gets the city youngster out into the open coun- try, it also gets his father and mother out there; and this is all to the good. The city, when you stop to think about it, is a poor sort of place anyhow, Winter submerges it in dirty snow, dangerous ice and dismal slush. Then spring comes and tantalizes the city folk with faint hints of an awakening life in which they cannot share; and summer, loafing indolently over the land, only makes the city a place of steaming canyons and hot pavements, where even the faintest breeze, laden with fumes of gasoline and coal smoke, is a gift from heaven. So, on evenings, and on weck-ends, the roads from the city to the country are filled with autos, bearing people out of the city into the country. What do they get out of these brief pilgrimages? Noth- ing much—and everything. They get a glimpse at their earth as it is meant to be, and not as man has defaced it. They get a chance to see how a rolling green field, a purple hill or a stretch of woodland can put to shame the finest skyscraper, the most glittering of city avenues. If they can listen, they get a priceless encouragement for their daily routine. The earth is a living miracle, and those who inherit it must, after all, be destined for some sort of ultimate glory. And that is the sort of thing one forgets in the city. Probably no other surprise is as hard and immediate as the one that comes to the self-confident party who has asked for “a little honest criticism.” ae ee ae London boasts of a woman who is a “human seismo- raph.” Possibly she has had some hard training. Editorial Comment FROM DESK TO MOUNTAINS (New York Times) Some of the best scenery in the world is in Alaska Mount McKinley seen from the plains is in a class with Everest and Kunchinjunga. Nowhere are there more magnificent glaciers, and nowhere except ir. Norway can one match the famous inside ze. American tourists have seen these glories, or are even aware of them. When they think of mountain seenery, they think of the Alps. Yet the mountains of Switzerland are pigmies beside the snowy crests of the Alaskan ranges, and the glaciers around Mount Blanc are tiny scraps of white beside the blazing expanses of Alaskan ice fields. One group of Americans is to be given a special op- portunity to visit the territory this summer. The gov- ernment owns a railroad up there, and is planning a speelally conducted tour for government employes from Washington to Fairbanks and return. The trip will take thirty-two days and cost a little over $500. For those who can afford to spend the money this shuold be a vaca- tion never to be forgotten. COUNTRY AND CITY COST (Time) Two aspects of what it costs to be sick in the country and in @ great city appeared in surveys publ! last. week. The city medical cost survey was of New York city’s 6,000,000 people, made by the research bureau of the local welfare council. The country survey was of |: 860 families (3,990 ” monthly magazine ;ublished at St. Paul, made this survey with the help of the national com- mittee on the cost of medical care. Der family, the individual outlay was $22.62. New York city, as a community, last year spent $150,- 000,000 caring for the sick—on doctors, Booze is being scientifically and socially and economically investigated as never before. Mr. Hoover has his commission, and Mrs. Charles Sabin, chairman of the Woman's Organization for Na- tional Prohibition Reform, is organ- izing her committee for a thorough survey of speakeasies. The committee will attempt to find out if they are more numerous and more objectionable than the old- fashioned saloon. The committee will also go into workingmen’s homes, interview wives and children, and get their opinion on the superiority of a saloon or speakeasy era. It is refreshing to see that the booze | problem is being dished out of the unthinking, unreasoning cauldron of sheer sentimentality into the one of | scientific investigation. * * x PREJUDICE ROUTED We no longer approach big issues such as prohibition with our minds all cluttered up with prejudice. We really investigate our problems and find out whether our opinion of them is right or wrong.‘ One shudders a little at the very idea of what our good old-fashioned union women would have said at the very idea that “good women” could | serve on @ committee which wasn't out and out avowedly sure that the lips that touched liquor and eyes that looked too long upon the wine when | it was red belonged to human beings | who were all that was low and de- graded. — One wonders what the “teetotaler” ladies of Carrie Nation's time and ilk would have said at the spectacle of | women banding themselves together | to learn if it might not indeed be well if the old-fashioned saloon came back. Even today there are certain female temperance societies which do little more than hand out pledge cards and white ribbons to their members, take solemn vows to ostracize from their communities all hurian beings sus- pected of ever imbibing the fer- mented grape, and have no more SuPPOsE You TAK THIS and psychological world of today than would Carrie Nation. ee HARM IN THEM? It may be @ broad statement, but I am convinced that the average woman's temperance society does in- finitely more harm today than good. Even their own members of a pro- gressive, Own-thinking sort are be- ginning to question their value. “Tl keep going to meetings, I guess,” I heard a woman say just the other night, “because I'm a life mem- ber and my dues are paid, but when I go to meetings and hear them say that they think such and such a boy ought to lose his job because they heard he'd been seen taking a drink, I wonder if they know what this world is all about today.” I think that a committee of thoughtful women who, instead of dogmatically chanting, “we must be dry; we must be dry,” and then bury their heads in the sand, say, “let's really keep our eyes and ears open and’ look into this thing,” are infin- itely more valuable to a country than some brands of white-ribboners who attack the wet and dry problem as their mothers and grandmothers of an entirely different era did. BARBS ¢ Ambassador Dawes refused to take @ sip of wine at @ lunchcon in Lon- don the other day, but he cracked several good jokes that all the guests got @ good laugh out of. The ambas- sador is quite a dry wit. me ok The people who ask for advice usu- | ally resent it when it is unfavorable. | 28% When silk stockings were expensive every woman had to have them. Now | that their price is lower, the ladies | are going without them. | * k * If Russia and China really should go to war, the struggle at least would have a nifty Red-and-Yellow color scheme. * * * The German heavyweight cham- Pion, Ludwig Haymann, has a Ph. D. degree. But Max Schmeling is mak- ing the money. * ek * ‘The coroner in Chicago also writes articles ‘for a Chicago newspaper. | Proving you certainly can crowd a lot of work into 24 hours. * ° | Iowans made 37,340,000 telephone | calls in 1928. touch with the social and economic {their leisure hours together. FAMILY LIFE (By Alice Judson Peale) When you and I were children we went on family outings, wholesale vis- its to relatives, and spent many eve- nings, father, mother, brothers and sisters all together in the family liv- ing room. But today it is literally true that no two members of the family spend Father goes golfing, mother plays bridge, big sister has one set of friends and little sister has another. Big brother plays baseball with the fellows from the Junior High; little brother plays base- ball with his friends in the fifth grade. There is no common center of interest; there is scarcely even any overlapping. That is the way things are in mogt homes. It is perhaps too bad, but we can no more bring back the old style of family life than we can bring back the spinning wheel. Must we then lose the special virtue of family life— its solidarity of affection and sym- pathy born of a common meeting ground for the most diverse ages and temperaments and interests? Not at all. The value of family life is in its quality rather than in the number and unanimity of its common activities. We can let the family fes- :| tivals go without a sigh if in our daily life we keep the spirit of which, ideal- ly, at least, they were the expression. No matter how crowded is the sep- arate schedule of each member of the family, it is possible to preserve this spirit of genuine sympathy. The way you accept your child's informal invitations to share his enthusiasms, the way you listen to his stories will either draw him closer to you or shut him away. ~ The attitudes of mutual respect for diverse interests which we may incul- cate in brothers and sisters will in- fluence the degree to which they can learn to share either actually or im- aginatively their leisure time activi- ties. Cultivate the spirit of family life and it will find its own expres- sion. Eight years ago 24.4 per cent of urban folk lived in apartment houses. | | Today, a survey of 302 cities estimates the “cliff dwellers” at 53.7 per cent. THINK ROUTINE AND ~ VERILY» “HE “TRIFLING ANNOVANCES [ I HAVE BACK Home WW MY OWN COUNTRY / To see THE FACES AGAIN OF ONE'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS f~ we AH ME,~1 Look FORWARD lo WHAT I ‘HouertT WAS Eves “He SCOLDINGS OF MY WIFE “TA” wi ALAS visit tered COMMONPLACE ! iy ~~~ I'M GLAD I MET You “His APTERNOON ! TLL TAKE “TH” BOAT-TRAIN AN’ SAIL “TOMORROW | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | “YoU SAID Uf, PAL Pew BACK HOME AGA WILL BE PARADISE, EVEN WITH FE'S RELATIVES NG FoR A MoATH! Now .T Kow ~ BOILS AND CARBUNCLES ‘The microscopic staphylococci caus- ing boils and carbuncles are often found on the surface of the skin, es- pecially if it is not kept scrupulously clean. But they do not cause these infections unless they are assisted in penetrating through the skin. They enter by slight scratches, cracks or wounds of the skin, often too small to be noted, or by way of the hair folli- cles or oil glands. The most frequent locations for boils are the back of the neck, caused by rubbing of the collar; the buttocks; the external ¢ar canal; and areas of the body where masses of hair are found. Even a tiny scratch, too small to see, made with the fingernail, may break down the skin enough that these staphylococci can enter the tis- sue, Not only must they gain entry, but the body must be in a stage where it lacks resistance to their growth or contains morbid material upon which they thrive. Once they enter the warm flesh, millions may be produced within a short time around a central core of staphylococci and dead tissue, Around the central nodule of infec- tion is an area of congestion from blood serum, and white coils. The spot soon turns red and begins to Pain and swell and the boil makes its appearance, As pus begins to form about the core, the boil ripens and will usually break by itself in the course of time, but the process may be hastened by the use of hot poultices. In some cases, where the boil is located high upon the neck or face, it is well to lance it before the surrounding tis- sues become permeated with the Poison. When the system is run down one is especially susceptible to boils. This occurs most frequently in diabetes, in aged people, and in those convas- escing from typhoid fever, If you are troubled with a crop of boils, it would be a good plan for you to have an analysis made to see if you have @ tendency toward diabetes, A carbuncle is much more severe in symptoms, as-it is really a sort of colony of boils about a common cen- ter. It may have several openings. The skin over a carbuncle becomes red, shiny, and sometimes almost of ® bluish appearance. It takes a week or longer before the pus breaks through the skin. Sometimes the tis- sues between the different gpenings will also slough off. Carbuneles are sometimes dangerous to life, especially in old persons. Boils and carbuncles usually start after one’s system has be¢ome run down from overwork, prolonged ex- citement or over-indulgence in food, especially rich foods like chocolate, Peanuts, ice cream, cakes, cream, pan- cakes, sausages and candy. One with a tendency to boils should live on acid fruits, vegetables and lean meats until the tendency has been over- TERRITORY OF WYOMING On July 25, 1868, the Territory of | Wyoming was created by congress. It became a state on July 10, 1889. The area now included in the state of Wyoming was acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Pur- chase with the exception of a small section in the southwest which was canine in the Mexican secession of 1848. First white explorers in Wyoming were Sieur de la Verendrye and his sons, who passed through while seek- ing trading posts in 1734-1741. White hunters visited Yellowstone in 1804, In 1907, fur trading posts were estab- wil lished. The first permanent settlement, however, was built on Fort Laramie in 1834. Although thousands of settlers on their way to California-and the Pa- cific northwest passed through Wy- oming, few of them settled within the state.» A chain of government posts were built to protect travelers against the Indians who declared war on i thém in 1854, Following a discovery of gold in 1867, South Pass City was founded. Cheyenne was laid out by.the Union Pacific railroad in the same year. A year later, congress established the | companied territory of. Wyoming. “If you can’t make things come right, take them as they come,”—B, C. Forbes, Corbes Magazine.) “Of herself Garbo once said, Porte He ges also attempt to develop more endurance by improving the circulation with systematic physi- cal culture. The skin should be kept healthy by frequent washing with a good plain soap and warm water. Short sunbaths may also be taken, but. one should be very careful not to be- sult from the tiny cracks as the skin is healing. The is should not allowed to become sluggish, but sh be cleansed out by daily enemas until they begin to move naturally by themselves from the correction of your diet, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Child Has Fiat Feet Question—Mrs. I. K. M. writes: “My four-year-old son has fiat feet. Will arch supporters cure them? Should he ride his tricycle, or is it better for him to walk a great deal?” Answer—Arch supporters cannot, cure flat feet any more than crutches can make you strong. Riding a tri- cycle should be good exercise, but the best one of all is to take your 50M for a walk once or twice daily, having him walk “pigeon toed” part of the way. This is walking with the toes turned in like the Indiams do. Just tell him to walk Indian fashion part of the time and let him think he is playing a game. Melba Toast Question: Interested writes: “Please tell me how to prepare the melba toast given in your weekly menus.” Answer—Cut all crust from an or- dinary loaf of white bread and slice the entire loaf in pieces one-quarter of an inch thick. Allow these to dry over night, and preferably longer. When thoroughly dry they should’ then be put into a moderately hot oven and toasted so that ithe heat will, entirely penetrate the dried bread anc! it will browned, all the way through. Encephalitis Question—B. T. writes: what the doctors call ‘encephalitis lethargica.’ I am told that there is no cure for this, Is that so? I feel as if I want to sleep all the time, and have pains in the pit of my stomach pains more at night than during the day.” People who think ice “I have Answer—Most they are suffering from sleeping sick- ness are really only toxic and bilious. The chances are you can get rid of your sleepy feeling as soon as you de-. toxicate yourself with @ fruit fast by\ the right diet. (Copyright, 1929, The Bell. Syndicate, ine, ex-Governor Mrs. Ordway last night at the residence of Colonel and Mrs. Whitford. L. C. Harris, La Moure, is the guest of friends in Bismarck for a few days, W. H. Ellis, editor of the Oakes Re- publican, arrived yesterday to spend some time at the capital, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Brooks Hoskins of this city and 1.’ W. Worst, Fargo, will accompany Prof, Chandler on his irrigation survey) ‘Mandan, north of Miss Ethel Healy has returned from Fargo, where she was the guest of Miss Karla Van Horn, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. i Maercklein and Mr. and: Mrs, . D. Hedtke, Ashley, were visitors in e city Sunday. \ TEN YEARS AGO ice has returned from « business trip to Billings, Mont, “ F. L, Butler, who has been visit« Ing his sons and Ellsworth and his daughter, Mrs. A. C, Seeley, has returned to his home in Linton, Mr. and Mrs. F, E. McCurdy, ac- by Mr. and Mra. E. Williams, Ws otic? Weird? If I am that way, then I wish I should shoot myself.”—Ad Rogers St. sohn, (Lberty.) tion “By the time they get through ing bootleg prices for their liquor haven’t mueh money left to rin — . FORTY YEARS AGO. A. 6. Guthrie, Pierre, is visiting in the city this week. come sunburnt, as boils frequently re-” ana we ee Oe ee