The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1929, Page 4

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Alt % ' Tights of republication of all other matter herein are Foreign Representative. SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS a rated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State and County Newspaper! NORTH DAKOTA NEEDS TREES Forestry is deserving of a wider demand on the at- i tention of North Dakota and of something more than the mere activities of a state school of arboriculture and the Propagation of shelter belts. North Dakota should have groves and copses, at least, scattered through the farming lands, and in those parts where the land is too rough for the culture of grains it would seem forestation might be attempted with likeli- hood of profitable results. For forestation has more advantages than mere fire- ‘wood or building timber as H. N. Whecler, the federal for- ester, showed the Lions club and guests, Monday, in his plea for tree planting in North Dakota. Trees have @ definite function in the economy of nature which has to do with the growing of plants, therefore with farming. There is, first, the effect on climate. Mr. Wheeler told the Lions that a large, mature tree diffuses cight barrels of water a day in the air by transpiration, something much like human perspiring. It draws the water out of the soil by its roots and lifts it through the trunk up- ward into its limbs and scnds it out into the foliage, whence it is exhaled into the atmosphere. In a semi- arid region like the northern plains states, this would be a contribution whose effect probably would be markedly felt in modifying the dry character of the North Dakota meteorology, which has been so severe on the crops this summer. Another effect on climate would be in the preservation of snow and retention of rain moisture in the soil, es- pecially in the vegetable mold that would accumulate through the dead foliage cast on the soil. This, in turn, ‘would modify the spring floods by lessening the off-flow of thawing snow. It would mean a drop of five fect in the peak of the Mississippi floods, said Mr. Wheeler. All of this modification would be in favor of a more certain and stable agriculture. ‘Then, too, Pennsylvania and other states have shown the benefit of timber stands in wild life preserves and fishing waters. A vast income is reaped each vacation season in the fees imposed by states for fishing and hunting privileges in the forests. Pennsylvania, almost denuded of its virgin forests, is coming back by means cf reforestation, which increases wild life, and in one year took in a revenue of $15,000,000 through sportsmen’s licenses, said Mr. Wheeler. Here, then, is an appeal to three classes, the farmers for whom climate is bettered and the washing away of their lands by erosion reduced, the sportsmen who like to fish and hunt and are willing to pay the licenses for the pastime, and, lastly, the taxpayer, in behalf of whose re- lief new sources of big revenue are created. As a supply of timber for utilitarian needs the experi- ment of forestation also is worthy of consideration. The Co KS3 Ges WAR DETE Hee He aeaz caem sono. vast virgin stands of forests no longer exist. Most of them have given way before the lumberman’s ax. Forestation, entered upon perhaps principally at first for modification of climate, eventually would develop commercial re- sources. Winona, Minnesota, has gone into this venture and has a municipal forest serving partly as a park and outing tract and partly for a timber supply. In fact, the idea of municipal forests has been agitated widely over the country, Bismarck could take up the idea just as Winona has, So could any city or town in the state. Wisely administered, such forests could be made to pay in sections where there is land unsuttable for rais- ing grain. In the south, land that was going into the dis- card through erosion was made to pay $11.81 an acre, ac- cording to the Wheeler figures. That is, at least, as good as wheat at eight bushels to the acre at present and in times of lower grain prices considerably better. North Dakota, once before, in the long, long ago of the Beological periods was a land covered with luxuriant trees. At least the evidence of the lignite deposits in- dicates this. By organized effort it could be made such again. The growth of shelterbelt evergreens at the Northern Great Plains experiment station and of cotton- , Woods, box elders and elms along the river courses in as- surance of what could be done. Some day some governor and some legislature will grapple with this matter and start one of the epochal ac- tivities of the state. Mr. Wheeler should come here when the legislature is in session and repeat his lecture to the state lawmakers. The mind of the people should be prepared for the vast possibilities of forestation shown by the Washington expert. —_—_—_1__ A SACRILEGIOUS SPEED RECORD The breaking of the speed record of the Mississippi, set 59 years ago by the famous packet boat Robert E. Lee, isn’t anything to exult over. It was done by a whipper- snapper of a speed boat, the Bogie, owned by Dr. Louis + FOPMRBIBREE ES” QRAE RA Rsegy - SPICE. WEE DU SSR BPoOs@uSet rAteNeen. to think of it, really is a testimonial to the speed of the famous old steam packet. Dr. Leroy had tried to do it before but had been balked by circumstances beyond his control in these earlier efforts. The Lee was a regular passenger carricr, built in Civil war days, when neither boats nor engines had been brought to their modern efficiency. The Bogie is a specd boat—a pleasure craft constructed solcly for speed. Yet it could only take three hours off the Lee's mark! That fact speaks volumes for the Lee's all-around excellence of design and construction. A TRIUMPH FOR JUSTICE Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama proved himself an energetic executive the other day when he ordered two companies of national guardsmen to Eufala, Ala., to pro- tect a colored man who was being tried for a peculiarly brutal murder, The prisoner's guilt was quite obvious, and feeling against him was running high. Conditions were just about right for a lynching; and the governor might well have asked himself, “Well, what's the difference? If the mob doesn't hang him now the state will have to hang him a couple of months later.” But Governor Graves saw things otherwisc. He ordered out the soldiers and instructed them to “use any means necessary” to protect the negro from mob violence. ‘The job was done efficiently. The negro was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang. The law is taking its due course, and the prisoner's crime is going to be avenged. And Governor Graves has saved his state from putting a black mark on its record. JAILS Huge jails are out of place in denscly populated areas. Invariably they have a depressing effect on communities in which they are located. Similarly, the conditions of life imposed on inmates of prisons through the limita- tions of space which are inevitable in business or resi- dential districts are highly detrimental to the prisoners themrelves. Thus it has long been held that penal in- stitutions should be located well outside the citics and even beyond the possible lines of future community de- velopment in order that inmates may always have oppor- tunities to engage in productive work on the land to ¢s- cape innumerable moral and physical handicaps, which follow upon enforced idleness over long periods and pe- riodical overcrowding. Fortunate is that state, county or community which years ago, when it was the custom to build prisons in the very heart of the city or town, had the foresight to raise its prison walls beyond the reach of the nearest city or town. Fortunate for the unlimited room for future de- velopment of the prison buildings and grounds and for escaping the depressing effect upon the community of the prison-within-a-city. Places of detention for human wrongdoers should be out in the great open spaces where their gaunt, gray walls cannot mar the beauty and stunt the growth of a community and where the imprisoned ones will not be deprived of fresh air and sunshine and a taste of health- ful outdoor work. Idleness breeds crime as prolificly in jail as out of jail. Note to Mussolini: The volcano shows you what hap- pens when a little crust at the top tries to hold things down. If parking space were allotted in accordance with de- mand, each driver would have space to park his spare tire. Peopie had sex appeal in the old days, too, but the neighbors said they were just full of the devil. You can estimate the size of a town by the size of the scandal required to make its tongue wag. A professor says the great American romance is yet to come. So every young girl believes. When insanity as a defense in murder trials peters out, what will be trotted in? Also, how does the weather man know you have just had your car washed? | Editorial Comment THE SEA BAT (Washington Sun) Gifford Pinchot’s Galapagos Islands expedition reports the capture of a giant seat bat, a weird, black flying ani- mal, with a fifteen-foot wing spreac The creature is coming to the National museum here for identification. Such an animal is certain to attract an unusual degree of public interest. There is an aura of mystery around all unusual bats. All sorts of legends grow up about them. Certainly they are among the most curious of nature's adaptive creations. They differ so widely from the orthodox conception of mammals that they have become objects of repellent superstition. But whether the creature captured by the Pinchot ex- Pedition is really a bat or @ curious type of flying fish is not clear from the description. There are fish-eating bats—and there is also a particularly weird, demon-like fish—the subject of many sea legends, which might fit in- to the picture. Nearly all the bats are nocturnal, secretive creatures. Consequently, it is not surprising to find types, hitherto unknown to science turning up from time to time. De- | than the mother herself. Che DAY... Here's a tangled web of human emotions, gripping and tragic, with undercurrents of motive for human action which are not so praiseworthy. Mrs. Vera_ Kastelmeyer, 26, ap- Peared in a Pittsburgh court the oth- er day to battle for the chance to keep her husband's baby by “the other woman.” The other woman, Josephine Kor- | sorek, 18, stood in court, too, battling for the baby whom she had once sur- rendered to her lover's wife, only to find herself unable to live bereft of her child. | The man, the newspaper version | had it, stood by silently as first his | wife and then “the other woman,” | the mother of his child, set forth why | each believed she had prior claim to the little baby girl. The court gave the child to the man's wife, condemning both the man and the mother of the child, and insisting that a wife who would make sO magnanimous a gesture was cer- | tainly more deserving of the child | * Ok A MOTIVE? { I wonder if the judge was exactly right. Will I seem too cynical if I Pause to wonder if perhaps this “magnanimous gesture” of the wife wasn’t perhaps rather a play to the gallery, a bid for public acclaim, as well as a bid to fasten her husband once and for all permanently and se- curely to herself, anything else being impossible after she had done this thing for him? This isn’t the first wife to take in her husband’s child by some other woman, and in many such cases as observed by some of us it has been amply demonstrated that the hus- band paid all the rest of his life for this “magnanimous gesture” on the Part of the wife. She never let him forget it. She used his child as life- time ammunition for her every wish and whim, and what man could gain- say a woman who had been so su- premely noble? * * * THE “OTHER WOMAN” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929 GOSH, MA! THAT TooTH HAS STOPPED ACHING ALL OF A SUDDEN! Well, We’ve Known of Occasions When Mere Sight of a Dentist’s Chair Has Eff ected a Cure! the 18-year-old unwed mother who pleaded before him for her baby, it seems to me that this girl's charac- ter is much more obviously noble than the wife's. She hadn't a thing ir. the world to gain by entering that courtroom but her child. She had tried working and living for half a year with no evi- dence of what the world would call “her guilt.”. She had not found job after job closed to her, first one de- cent social contact and then another wiped out, because it was found that she had a child. But she was voluntarily exchanging the easy way for the hard one. She was choosing hardship and poverty and fearful struggle just so that she might have her child. She had noth- ing to gain but satisfied mother love. Her baby would not be a weapon for | her against the world, as in the wife's case, but a deadly weapon in the! hands of the world against her. But the judge condemned her for | “vicious conduct and character.” “And the man stood by silently.” He plays an inconspicuous part in the story, and yet there is something deeply tragic about his inarticulate silence. Perhaps pity is wasted but | after all, the man did not run away; | after all. he did face the music; after suffer publicly for his sake and sin. | Perhaps some day the world will | and laughs. | ° ee ° BARBS | ¢| Once there was a town in the Unit- | ed States so old-fashioned, remote, | ° | Slow and small that no one there ever | | held an endurance flying record. | x A writer says that all you have to have to get into Washington society | is a suit of evening clothes. And, if | Mrs. Gann is there, perhaps you'd | better bring your own chair. | * oe * | The home of a recluse was searched | in Wisconsin and $6,500 was found. He | to have so little as that around. An Arkansas heifer died after it | choked on a roll of bills the farmer | had lost in the pasture. Maybe the | farmers shouldn't be relieved, after all | —think of the poor heifers! i spite the intensive exploration of most of the obscure cor- ners of the earth in the past few years, there still are Picturesque mammals which never have been seen by naturalists and which give rise to grotesque local legends. Such, for example, are the alleged “wild men”—possibly Tare and unobserved species of apes—reported in the in- terior of Sumatra and the parti-colored bear of the Himalayas. ‘The bats fill a niche of creation exclusively their own, So far as mammals are ci |. They have developed in accordance with the réquirements of a flying life in the darkness. This has taken them far off the common trail of most other mammals and has cost them that sense of kinship with which we view most other warm- blooded creatures. Nevertheless, they are not far off the evolutionary branch from which have arisen the monkeys, the anthropoid apes and man. But they have become the creatures of the night and the shadows. These others have progressed as the creatures of the daylight and the sunshine. Governor Pinchot’s party, according to press reports, are bringing back many other curious Galapagos Islands creatures to the National museum. This obscure corner of the world, long cut off from the beaten track of ani- mal migrations, is the home of queer animal types, which attract the interest of the general public as curiosities and of the scientific public as examples of the workings of evolution in relation te environment. FLORIDANS PAY FOR THEIR BOOM (Minneapolis Journal) In explanation of the failure of twenty-three banks in Florida, ard the near panic caused thereby, State troller Ernest Amos blames thi general (ec e Mediterranean ‘ralt My UME O THINK WHEN HE [ , Position Now AS Ad DON'T WANT TH” MASOR FROM EUROPE DAT AH quit’ MAH DOB AS HIS VALET. No ves’ SAY To HIM DAT AH PERMOTED MAHSEF $ ~~ AW HAS ME A SHOP PORTER !~— PAY EBBRY SATDAY NIGHT ~~ AN’ SUNDAYS OFF! wr 6’ BYE MRS. HOOPLE . You 1S WAS Lf 3 COMES BACK A HEAD BARBER GooD BYE DASON You'RE DOING THE BEST THING! Now REMEMBER,| \F-THE MAJOR GOES To NouR BARBER SHoP WHEN HE COMES BACK, MAKE HIM PAY FoR HIS SHOE SHINES, ~~ AND ¢ BREAK HIS SHOELACES EVERY Now AND Talks To #3, 4&3, Parents REST — (By Alice Judson Peale) Most children need much more rest than they get. During these months of daylight saving it is often hard for growing boys and girls to go to bed before 9:30 or 10, All day they are active, playing games, hiking, riding, coming and going on the endless pur- suits of childhood. Children have no sense of their physical and nervous limitations. They go until they can go no more. Ex- haustion is responsible for much of their nervousness, sleeplessness, bad temper and irritability. Children who are not getting enough rest are the last ones to seek it, It is up to their elders to see that they get the relaxation they so sorcly need. Up to the age of five it usually is Possible to enforce the rule of the afternoon nap. It is wise to continue | all, he did stand by to see two women | the habit up to the age of eight or nine unless doing so causes too much friction. The older child can usually | not make things quite so hard for | be induced to rest after lunch if he | one half while the other half plays | is permitted to read an interesting book, write letters, or do some quiet, light handiwork. Ten-year-olds at camp who resent- ed the enforcement of the “rest hour” after Junch, accepted it joyously when they were permitted to lie under a shady tree while “The Three Mus- keteers” was read aloud to them. Children who play violently all day often find it difficult to relax even when they are very tired. Such a child will toss upon his bed until far past the hour when he should have found deep, refreshing sleep. His tired nerves will not let him rest. It will help the over tired child to find rest if he has a cool bath just before going to bed. Reading from some interesting but not too stimu- | must have been a non-union recluse | lating book will often turn his mood from the too exciting pastimes of the day and will calm him so that he will drift into sleep much sooner than he otherwise would. The “Boerenbond,” cooperative or- dled business transactions amounting As for the judge’s condemnation of | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | to $18,000,000 last year. ny Fata gh 1 DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES Dreams are familiar to everyone. Science claims that during sleep a portion of the brain or nervous sys- tem may remain awake when other parts are asleep. Dreams are pro- duced by a wakefulness of the higher intellectual centers, producing mental pictures or dreams by utilizing the memory and imagination. The con- scious portion of the mind is asleep. That the mind is not completely asleep can be illustrated by the fact that when one sleeps during a contin- uous humming noise, one awakes upon the sound stopping. Many people, too, have the power of awaking after a predetermined time, and we all know that an unusual noise may cause one to awaken. Dreams are often guided by ex- ternal sensations of hearing, touch or digestive disorders, but the sensory nerves are partly asleep and the sen- sations are misinterpreted. For ex- ample, a full heavy meal may give the sensation of falling, or sinking and being unable to walk rapidly. In many people dreams also occur as an attempt to escape from reality. Peo- ple may accomplish in their minds things during sleep which they would like to do when awake but do not be- cause of mental inhibitions. ‘The impressions of a dream may be so slight as not to be remembered, or so strong as to awaken the sleeper with a feeling that he has actually lived his dream. Mental unrests and anxieties undoubtedly contribute to| the formation of dreams. The s0- called symbolic property of dreams to foretell events of the future is now regarded as purely superstition. Night tremors are frequently found in children. The child may awaken suddenly in great fear and not recog- nize anyone for several minute’. This usually follows undue exertion from digestive disturbances and sleep walk- ing as really a form of dream, as it is in an imperfect sleep in which the muscular apparatus remains wide awake, although the internal centers slumber. Some people may sing, talk, sit or walk during sleep. This has ceived the term “somnambulism.” The sense organs may be partly awake so that the individual may answer ques- tions with more or less accuracy, but forget completely upon awakening. Occasionally, but rarely, a patient may undergo the opposite condition in which the muscular system is asleep while the intellectual faculties are wide awake. This causes the pa- tient to believe that he is paralyzed, but the condition does not last for long and slapping of the muscles will usually awaken them immediately. The most frequent causes of an in- ability to sleep are excessive gas in the intestines, digestive disturbances, or toxins in the blood stream. up re- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Eczema Question—E. D. writes: “I have HEALTHDIET A Whts e Sast hhay.to Itaslthe been troubled with eczema on my faci and arms for some time. What diei or treatment do you advise?” Answer—All you need to do is t¢ personal diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose @ stamped addressed - combine your foods properly so that you will not have an over-acid stom- ach. Also, the skin may be peeled off with the sunburn produced from the use of the ultra-violet light. Or, a few days’ fasting is usually enough to make any skin eruption disap- Pear. But the steady diet of well bal- anced meals is necessary to a perma- nent cure, Heart Trouble Question—H. F. D. writes: “I en- joy reading the advice given by you on health and am trying to follow it. I have suffered from valvular disease of the heart since I was seven years old and am twenty now. The doc- tors I have had tell me there is no cure. I am in bed at the present time and have been for the past two months, and am troubled with gas around my heart. As I eat only very light food, can you tell me the cause of the trouble?” Answer—You have named the cause of your trouble when you write that you are troubled with gas around your heart. The foods you eat may be “light” in weight, or “light” in nour- ishment, but they certainly are not the right foods or else you are not using them in proper combination with each other. Most valvular heart troubles are functional and can be cured by proper diet and exercise. Send for a special series of articles I have prepared on the cause and cure of heart derangements. Milk and Lemon Juice Question—K. L. asks—“When milk does not seem to agree with one, will the addition of a little lemon juice make it digestible? If so, is it neces- sary to put it in the milk if one eats along with the milk the lemon jelly made of gelatin and lemon juice?” Answer—The lemon or . gelatin should be put into the milk in order to get the best results. The addition of gelatin no doubt prepares the milk so that it is more easily assimilated, and the lemon juice breaks the milk into small curds which the digestive juices can penetrate more readily. Acid and Alkaline Forming Foods Question—Mrs. H. writes: “Please print a list of both acid and alkaline forming foods.” Answer—Such lists are too long to be printed in this column, but I will be glad to send you some articles giving you this information. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) ~ DO A Me BO ae as a TITANIC DISASTER BLAME On July 30, 1912, the British Board | of Trade'’s inquiry commission made j. Public its report blaming excessive speed for the sinking of the “Titanic,” then the largest ship in the world, with a loss of 1503 lives. The commission found that the loss of the ship was due to the collision with an iceberg brought about by the excessive speed at which the liner was being navigated. In view of the customary practice of masters in the North Atlantic, who steam ahead at full speed in clear weather, the commission found itself unable to blame the captain. At the same time, its recommenda- tions that speed must be reduced when ice is reported, that there should that boat-drill, The “Titanic” voyage across the Atlantic when she struck an iceberg at 11:40 p. m. about two hours later, carrying with her all but 705 of the 2208 on board. “When @ man grows as old panied by Miss Leola Woy, have re- turned from a visit to Watertown. M. Pollock, are paying a short visit to the Pollock home in Casselton. Delegate Scott has returned from a visit to his home at Valley City, ace companied by Mrs. Scott. The territorial records were di- vided yesterday, the north half of the Dakotas getting the records of the governor's office and the secretary of state, and the south portion getting the records of the rest of the territor= ¢ | ial offices. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Charles L. Proctor has returned from a trip to the Minnesota lakes. a Lieut-Governor Bartlett was a vis- itor in the city today, calling on Gov- ernor White with reference to the St. Louis exposition display. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McKee and fam- ily, Hazelton, have come to Bismarck to reside. Mr. McKee will be em- ployed with the Soo line. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Ink, who visited here for several days, have returned to their home in Wahpeton. — . TEN YEARS AGO Ellsworth Butler, who served 11 months in France, is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butler. He is now stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas. Mrs. M. J. McKenzie returned ‘Thursday evening from Minneapolis where she has been visiting for sev- eral weeks. She was accompanied home by her daughter, Mrs. E. F. Bickart. Mrs. Lynn J. Frazier, wife of Gov- ernor Frazier, and her sister, Mrs. J.- | A. Minder, Crystal, have returned from Alhambra, Calif., where they ee mumioned dy toe Snare of shots father. Dr. W. J. Hutcheson left today for Stewarts Draft, Va., to visit relatives. He will also go to Baltimore to visit his daughter, Miss Hazel Hutcheson, John Pollock and his brother, R. |