The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 4

4 The Bismarck Tribune Ap independent Ne per THE STATE'S ULDESI NEWSPaPER (Bstablished 1873) Published the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bi3- marek. ND. and entered at the postattice et Busaercs Weekly by Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Audit Bureaw of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitied to the use i local news of spontaneous origin publisheo herein Al rights of republication of all other matter herein are Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. GO NEW YORK CHICA‘ BOSTON (Official City, State an@ County Newspaper) SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING ‘The chase and shelling and, in one case, sinking of rum runners smacks of the past. The thing does not belong in the year 1929, somehow; but to the more picturesque era of pirates, and square sail, and corpses dangling in chains at a navy yard dock. For smuggling is one of the oldest trades in history. ‘The craft that carries contraband over the sea has a very ancient lineage—just as the revenue cutter has. Much of the romance of this country's history is interwoven with smugglers and smuggling. John Paul Jones, first man to bring glory to the Amer- ican flag at sea, was a smuggler in his youth. He helped bring to the shores of Scotland cargoes which the British government was trying to exclude; and his activities in dodging and fighting the British warships that were try- ing to break up that trade gave him the seamanship and knowledge of tactics that were to make him such a great naval leader later on. New Orleans knows about smugglers. The innumerable coves and bayous of the gulf coast made New Orleans a smugglers’ haven over a century ago. Some of the smug- glers lapsed into piracy occasionally, and now and then there was a grand hanging in a New Orleans public square, with thousands looking on. In colonial New England, likewise, there were smug- giers; men who brought in goods in defiance of the British, robbed his majesty’s government of needed reve- nue and helped materially, in the long run, to detach the American colonies from British rule. Boston, Providence, Newport and Salem all were ports of call for the carriers of contraband. New England, incidentally, shared in the darkest kind of smuggling in our history—the smuggling of slaves. The malodorous slave ships, built for speed and carrying hu- man cargoes in unspeakable misery and filth, were most- ly outfitted in Massachusetts or Rhode Isiand. From the west coast of Africa to the rivers and creeks of the Caro- linas and Georgia they made swift passages, dodging English and American warships, throwing overboard their luckless prisoners when pursued too closely. slipping into their havens at dead of night to unload the sick, con- fused negroes, profiting hugely and living hard and des- perately. Still later, American smugglers found profit in convey- ing arms to Cuban insurrectos; indeed, the Spanish- American war nearly broke 20 years ahead of time, when & Spanish cruiser captured an American smuggler in the ‘70s and executed the crew. Filibustering expeditions to Central America have been common, down to recent years. Thus the liquor smugglers have an ancient tradition back of them. And in future years, it may be, they will be looked on as precisely the same sort of picturesque, romantic creatures that we now consider the smugglers of colonial days to have been. We think our modern age Prosaic; who knows but that our grandchildren, reading of smugglers, sea fights, daring escapades and great Profit, will think that we were lucky to have lived in an ‘age of 50 much color and excitement? THE VICIOUS BLACK PANTHER George Bistany, wild animal collector, returns from a trip into the wilds of Africa and reports that the black panther is the most desperate and vicious of wild ani- mals; and any man who was properly brought up will find that statement rather consoling. For the man who was Properly brought up, of course, read Kipling’s Jungle Book as a boy; and no reader of Kipling’s Jungle Books eyer failed to put Bagheera, the black panther, in his shrine of notabl Bagheera was perhaps the most fa: lating animal in those great books. Kaa, the 30-foot python, was a great creature, to be sure; and Shere Khan, the villainous tiger, was an omen and a portent of the jungle’s terror. But Bagheera—black as a midnight shadow, graceful as & kitten and dangerous as a bolt of lightning—Bagheera ‘was the best of the lot. Now it would be just our luck, in this day of image- smashing, to have some naturalist report that the black Panther was really a coward and a sneak thief. But no! Mr. Bistany finds the black panther just as Greadful as we had always thought him. And every man | ‘who read the Jungle Books will be grateful. REDUCING TUBER‘ State Health ity eS ae association, North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis association and virtually every health agency as well as the medical and nursing professions are urging people to submit themselves for examination periodically to discover evi- Gence of tuberculosis or a pretuberculosis Condition or the beginnings of any other disease that, because insid- fous, may have escaped notice. Statistics show that tuberculosis is on the decline. An- ‘nual death rates in 1900 averaged 200 isementied part of agy effort in bringing tuber- Hs Skis ce cases; That the state and local health officers should take the initiative in promoting the reporting of cases by physicians and institutions; complete and accurate reporting in their respective dis- tricts; That the success of reporting tuberculosis depends upon | the sympathetic support of the medical profession; That the subject of the reporting of tuberculosis cases be presented to state and local medical societies asking for their cooperation and support. A SAVING NATION This is a saving as well as a wasteful nation, paradox- ical as it may seem. Of our natural resources the coun- try is little short of profligate. American wastefulness of forests and mines and failure to utilize water power can scarcely be too severely criticized. But when it comes to Purely pecuniary saving, the people live pretty well up to ; the traditions of the “land of the almighty dollar.” This is indicated by current statistics of savings banks and similar institutions, which show an increasing prac- tice of “laying aside for a rainy day” worthy of the high- est commendation. The increase is shown in a variety of directions—in the kinds of institutions for savings, in the number of depositors, and in the average and gross amounts deposited. A hundred years ago the total savings bank deposits in the United States were less than $1,250,000. Today they are nearly $25,000.000.000. We are not sure that greater Progress has been made in any other respect than that. | Seventy years ago there were only 8,635 depositors in savings institutions. Today there are 40,000,000. Such figures are eloquent. It is a great thing for more than one person in every three of the entire population to have savings of—on the average—about $549. It is a great thing for the savings of the nation to amount to more than $208 for every member of its population. It is a great thing to be able to say, in the face of the gigantic public debt caused by the war, that it is fully counter- balanced by the savings accounts of the People. BEATING THE AIR The reformer seems to be @ permanent affliction of normal humanity. Sometimes, though rarely, his task is an easy one; generally, however, it involves an uphill fight. Of the latter order is the campaign being waged by the editor of a medical magazine in favor of the use by women of more soap and water and less paint and Powder. This unsophisticated believer in the power of the Printed word avers that a symposium conducted among clubwomen throughout the country reveals a virtually unanimous opinion against perfumes, excessive powdering and cosmetics. In the opinion of those consulted, all that is needed to secure skin health and beauty and, incident- ally, a high standard of morals, is pure white soap, a washrag and plenty of warm water. They are lenient to- ward “a little powder,” but, to a woman, they are em- Phatic in their condemnation of “whitewash and paint,” which they consider disgraceful and demoralizing. Per- fumes are also brought decidedly under the ban. The promoter of this reform movement allows it to be inferred that the women who express these emphatic views are representative of the “best thought” in their respective communities. But who ever heard of the world being guided by the best thought in any age? In matters of feminine fashion, above all, it has never count- ed a whit. Moralists and prudes have inveighed against this, that or the other practice, but lovely woman has gone on her way smiling and unheeding and maintained her fad against all comers until a newer one displaced it. So_it will be with the present craze for artificial com- Plexions. Preachers, scientists, even editors, may con- demn it, but, despite them all, it will run its allotted course. Then, presto! it will disappear on a sudden, as some new vagary becomes the vogue, and no woman will appear in public with a painted face unless some hope- less case like “the Serpent of old Nile” in “Dombey and Son.” Until that psychological moment arrives the med- ical editor is merely beating the air in his attempts at a general reformation. TRUTH IN ADS The campaign for “truth in advertising” that the As- sociated Advertising Clubs of the World are waging is most praiseworthy. Falsity in advertising is rare, but it is sufficiently frequent to warrant the campaign against it. The “ad” is @ silent salesman. It looks at you from the Printed page or from car signs or from billboards—and you look at it. To win a buyer's favor is one thing. To keep it is another. A false “ad” may induce one sale, but the tricked customer does not return. The customer at- tracted by a true “ad” does return, and is therefore equivalent to two or more customers, according to the number of his return trips. This demonstrates the truth of the maxim that “honesty is the best policy,” not only from the standpoint of morals, but from that of self- ' interest. In its own interest it desires “truth in advertising.” Ad- vertisers who have confidence in the merits of their of- ferings are also urged by their own best interests to press for the truth. For falsity in advertising, even though of seldom occurrence, reflects on honest advertising. No advertiser can afford to be untruthful. Every advertiser who has anything to sell worth buying can afford to be truthful. Scientists have discovered that soda water is fatal to ; Serms. “Have another.” Insurance ig all right, but driving sanely is also a good Policy. Personality is never carried in a vanity case. Editorial Comment THE ABOLITION OF GRAMMARS (New York World) Old-fashioned people still believe in teaching the al- Phabet by rote, though youngsters learn to read more quickly by studying syllables and words. They still be- Heve in drilling everybody in compound Proportion or the “double rule of three,” though much advanced arith- metic is useless lumber bra. Such people will be horrified by the elimination ot grammars in all New York grades below 7A, and the drastic simplification of the study elsewhere. No pars- ings? No conjugations? No biackboard diagrams of in- volved sentences, or drill in the subjunctive, the ablative and the dative? Dr. O'Shea explains that the abolition of grammar books does not mean the abolition of grammar. It means tliat the time once spent in learning abstract rules That local health officers be requested to secure more ‘The public is concerned in this advertising proposition. | iDAY.... The divorce petition filed by prima donna Edith Mason against her hus- band, Giorgio Pollaco, a director of the Chicago Civic Opera company, is one more of those revelations of dis- cord between marital members of the same profession which is always a little surprising. ¢ Told by social and psychological ex- perts since time memorial that mari- tal happiness depends on common in- terests, these divorces seem at odds with that supposed fact. And yet perhaps there aren't so same professions; it's just that peovle | outstanding in the professions are big | news, and we hear of their bickerings. eee GODIVA AGAIN The old Godiva story, really rather beautifully told in its original version, continues to be surefire grist for the Press agent. The latest version was the riding through the streets of the scene of the old story, Coventry, Eng- land, of a beautiful golden-haired girl upon a white charger. The modern Lady Godiva did her stuff for a hospital benefit. Nearly half a million people watched her. eee HARD FOR OLD ONE Both the old and the new Godiva rode for sweet charity's sake. If you recall the old story you remember lthat the old earl’s wife rode to relieve her husband's people from taxation. Here's wagering, though, that the Godiva of long ago made a greater sacrifice than the one the other day. Showing a limb in ye ancient dayes was really something. eee BIRTH CONTROL ognition as “a method of coping with social problems” was advocated at the recent central conference of American rabbis in their fortieth convention. The resolution read in part— “Realizing the many serious evils caused by uncontrolled parenthood among those who lack the prerequi sites of health and a reasonable mea: ure of economic resources and intelli- gence to give their children the her- itage to which they are entitled. We | therefore recommend that the con- ference urge the recognition of the many divorces between people in the | A study of birth control and its rec- | aon importance of birth control in parent- hood as one of the methods of coping with social problems.” eee PROGRESSIVE This is supposed to be the first time | that any religious body has taken this | decisive stand on birth control. It was about time. We need more conferences like this. see HONEYMOON STYLE The Isle of Man is to Europe what Niagara Falls is to America. It is the honeymooners’ haven. All hotels on the little island are booked until fall, Proprietors admit. It's funny how style effects even a honeymoon choice. One would think that if people ever wanted to be off the beaten track it would be on their honeymoon, but, no, then as ever, they insist on going to the spot which all the rest choose. "ee MUSICAL COMEDY King Boris of Bulgaria expected to | marry Princess Giovanna, daughter of | the king of Italy, state rumor has it. | But rumor also says that the mar- | Tiage will not take place because Italy is too greedy about the marriage. | Italy, says a Bulgarian paper, de- mands through this marriage special |rights for Catholics in Bulgaria; in- |sists that any children of the union |be raised in the Catholic faith, and asks for a special military alliance. | Somehow that doesn't seem much like marriage dickering, as we crass | Americans understand it, and some- | how one loses sight of the prospective |bride and groom in all this state shuffling. The old theme for the musical com- edy writer. e ESSERE ey) So | BARBS —_—_— There are two uses for every brick. o | You don't have to throw every one you touch. “* k Many people moving in the best cir- cles are not straight. | aes & Some of our dearest friends cost us nothing. i se 8 | A new species of mosquito has been discovered by a scientist. Tough luck. * * & The population of the Unitéd States is increasing at the rate of more than 1,500,000 a year. Wonder if that fig- | ure has been retised since Philadel- Phia arrested Al Capone? (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Talks ToS, 4&z, Parents TACT WANTED (By Alice Judson Peale) Four-year-old Ruth and her mother were calling on the new neighbor's baby. “What a darling!” exclaimed her mother. “I adore babies. Do let me | hold him. Oh, dear, why do they have to grow up?. They're so cuddle- some when they're little and in a couple of years they grow so tall and thin! How old did you say he was? Six months? Ruthie, dear, do look at him. Don't you wish he were mother's baby? Shall we take him home to be your baby brother?” “I want to go home!” came from Ruth. “I don’t want to stay here.” “Why, Ruthie. I thought you loved visiting? What's the matter, dear?” “I want to go home to my house, I want to play down in the brook.” “All right, dear; run along.” “I can't go alone; you come with on't be silly, dear. It’s just across the lawn.” By this time Ruth was crying. “But you have to come with me; I don't want to go by myself.” “Really I can't imagine what's got- ten into Ruth. She never acts this | way,” said her mother, and with a sigh gave back the baby to his moth- |er's arms, and, taking Ruth by the | hand, walked away in the direction of the brook. | Unknown to herself, unknown to | her mother, Ruth was suffering from | jealousy. Her feelings are natural to | most children. All children have a ; tendency to be jealous of anyone who | threatens for the moment to supplant | them in the affections of those they | love. Jealousy is a destructive emotion, nainful and humiliating in itself, leaving in its wake feelings of hate id inserioriiy. Guard against arous- | ing %¢ in your child. Do not so praise | and love another in his presence that | he will feel his hold on your love has | been diminished. | Choral music composed by Robert | White, organist at Westminster Ab- bey from 1570 to 1574, was sung at the | abbey by a choir of 300 July 1, after hed had lain mute 350 years. You 7% Go Home wr OUR BOARDING HOUSE FARE THEE WELL PARIS, MY BELOVED! ~ You ARE A SPARKLING GEM,REFLECTING THE FACETS OF “HE Four ARTS $ ~~ “TWo ILLUSTRIOUS MEN HAVE BIDDEN THEE FAREWELL AT DUSK. — NAPOLEOr LEPT YoU, AND WENT INTo EXILE ~I LEAVE iNT DOMESTIC EXILE AGAIA ~~ AH, PARIS ~ AGAIN I SAY, A Hirst ~ [ MEAN LUMP IS MY “THROAT «~ BLESS You, AND FAREWELL ! By Ahern Dr. McCoy’s menus suggested for the week beginning Sunday, July 28th:— Sunday Breakfast: Coddled egg, small! piece of ham, waffle. . nel Lunch: Fresh berries with milk/| or_cream (no sugar). Dinner: Baked chicken, melba toast dressing, asparagus, head let- tuce and celery, ice cream (small po-tion). Monday Breakfast: Cottage cheese, melba toast, sliced pineapple. “Lunch: Grapes as desired. Dinner: Boiled fresh *vegetables en casserole, celery, Jel- lo or Jell-well with cream. Tuesday Breakfast: French omelet, toasted Triscuit, stewed prunes. Lunch: Watermelon as desired, Dinner: Salisbury steak, cooked spinach, McCoy salad, baked pears. Wednesday Breakfast: Wholewheat-raisin muffi crisp bacon. Ice cream with berries. Dinner: Leg of mutton, cooked string beans, salad of grated raw | carrots on lettuce, pineapple whip. Thursday Breakfast: Poached egg on mel- ba toast, stewed apricots. « Lunch: Ripe plums as desired. Dinner: Roast pork, cooked spin- ach, squash, celery and ripe olives, baked apple. Friday Breakfast: Re-toasted breakfast food with milk or cream (no sugar). Lunch: Melon as desired. Dinner: Baked sea bass, cooked string beans, egg plant, salad of sliced tomatoes, plain jello. Saturday Breakfast: French omelet, mel- ba toast, baked apple. Lunch: Ice cream with fresh acid fruit. Dinner: Stuffed and rolled steak, head lettuce, prune whip. “Vegetables en casserole: 1 bunch of small carrots, 1.bunch of small turnips, 1 cup of green peas, 1 cup of chopped celery, small head of cauliflower broken into small pieces. Cut turnips and carrots as d sired and mix with other vegetables and fill casserole. Add a_ small amount of water, cover and bake thirty minutes, This makes a nice, thick vegetable “stew,” very savory and with a sustaining, wholesome | odor. Add a generous lump of but-) tongue, | ter to each portion served hot from the casserole, Dr. McCoy will giedly answer Personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune, | Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Adhesions and Constipation Question:—B, J. H. writes: “I would like to know what the symp- tons of adhesions are. Was oper- ated on for ruptured appendix about @ year ago and suffered no ill ef- fects until a couple of weeks ago. Have had continual headache, as if from stomach, usually constipated, and pains in back that lead up to back of head.” Answer:—Adhesions binding the intestines together are a common cause of constipation. The only way ae can be sure whether or not you have adhesions is to have an X-ray examination made. Adhe- sions may produce symptoms in al- most any part of the body if they are of sufficient strength to inter- fere ‘with the functional activity of the stomach, intestines, or other abdominal organs. No Starch for Diabetics Question:—H. G. asks: “Will you please tell me if the entire | wheat bread is starchy, and if it is good diet for the diebetic instead of gluten bread?” Answer:—Entire wheat bread or plain white bread has a preponder- ance of starch over all other food elements, Gluten bread has slight- ly less starch, but the diebetic should not use bread of any kind, as he can get along very nicely if no starches are used, but may be forced to take insulin if he in on using any form of carbohy- rates. Corners of Mouth Sore Question:—G. H. asks: “Will you kindly tell me what causes the corners of the mouth to get sore? Also, the remedy for this disagree- able trouble.” Answer:—Soreness in the corners of the mouth may be caused from an irritated stomach or from ab- scessed teeth. The saliva becomes poisonous or irritating and during sleep runs out of the corners of the mouth and causes the burning. Keep your teeth clean and avoid stomach irritation by regulating your diet so as not to have stomach hyperacidity. ee ZI AAS Se ctu POSTOFFICE ORGANIZED One hundred and fifty-four years ago today, on July 26, 1775, the Con- | tinental congress established a post- | office department with Benjamin Franklin in charge as postmaster gen- eral. Franklin was authorized to estab- lish a line of posts from Falmouth, Me., to Savannah, Ga., and as many cross posts as might seem to him hec- sary. In 1792 rates of postage for letters were fixed which remained unaltered for nearly half a century. They were: for 30 miles and under, 6 cents; over 30 miles and not exceeding 60 miles, 8 cents; over 60 and not exceeding 100 miles, 10 cents; and go on up to 450 miles and over, for which the charge was 25 cents. In 1845 the rates were lowered and a scale based on weight as Well as dis- ince was adopted. The element of distance as a factor in fixing rates was abolished in 1855, and a uniform rate of 3 cents was es- tablished for letters not exceeding one-half ounce in weight. There was no house-to-house de- livery service in the first postal sys- tem in the United States. The mail was sent from town to town by horse- back and the residents called at the local postoffice for all their mail. UOTATIO “True, the operation of an airplane is expensive today, but so were rail- ways and automobiles in their in- fancy. Aeronautical engineering will | almost certainly show the same reduc- tions in the cost of operation that we have seen in the operation of locomo- | tives and automobiles.”—Burt M, Mc- Connell. (The Elks Magazine.) xk * “When conditions improve a little more, there will be no reason for any- one dying until he ras scored a cen- tury.”—Sir Oliver eis * today considering the sale of school lands; the report of the education | committee, and the report of the com- mittee on impeachment. A. G. Clark, Steele, accompanied by Mr. attd Mrs. D. H. Clark, Irontown, Pa., were visiting here yesterday. Guy C. Carliss and Judge Cochrane, ._ Grand Forks, are attending the con- vention at the capitol. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO W. H. Bonham is visiting the World's fair at St. Louis, Mrs. E. H. L. Vesperman entertained yesterday at progressive euchre, Mrs. Welch receiving the prize. Mrs. Ariana May and daughter, who have been visiting at the Jacob- son home near Bismarck, have re- turned to the city. J. O. Kruhm went to Grand Forks today to attend the Democratic con- vention, TEN YEARS AGO Secretary of State and Mrs. Thomas Hall had as their guest for a few days Prof. R. sie eee ee gd the Plant breeding, brueau le cultural college. ‘ esi Approximately $100,000 will be spent on the roads of Burleigh county, ac- cording to the county commissioners. Miss Mary Buchholz leaves today for Ironwood, Mich., where she will visit for a time before going to her old home at La Crosse, Wis. G. E. Wingreene is spending a sev- eral weeks’ vacation at the Minne- sota lakes. ONLY ONE LEFT Boston, July 26.—The last of the heath hens, first disturbed on this continent by white men at the land- ing of the Pilgrims, is living alone in his domain on Martha’s Vineyard. Since 1927 the number of these native American birds has decreased from 13—11 males and 2 females —to 1 male. When the present bird dies it will mark the extinction of his race, Water wells sometimes are as high- ly valued in dry western Texas as oil wells. One ranchman was 60 pleased when drillers struck water * “It's not the applause on entrance but on exit which is important.”— Charles G. Dawes. ik * * “The real breach between parents find children—the lack between mothers and daug! pecially—is about nine times out of of ten due to the shortcomings of the mother.” —1 uy ay Collier's.) “It will be moré important, one of | | these days, to educate men and wom- en to use their leisure time than it will be to educate them for an occu- pation.”—-Nicholas Murray Butler, president Cans. Rppaeatty: “For myself.I consider only the two ends of life worth while—childhood and old age. At the beginning of life alone are we sure of joy; at the ter- mination are we sure of our= selves.”—George Luks. (The Red Book Magazine.) Pa ne | Our Yesterdays ] bes ee FORTY YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wilson gave-a reception last night for their guest, Mrs. Emma A. Cranmer. A delight- ful musical program was given, that he gave them a banquet. FLAPPER poe! It's shame few €y