The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S ULVESI NEWSPaPER (Established 1873) — Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis- marck, N. D.. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck @8 second class mail matter. George D. Mann ..... -President and Publisner Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Datly by carrier per year .... Daily by mail. per year (in Bismarck) .. Daily by mail. per year, (ip state, outside Bismarck) ....... Daily by mail, outside cf North Dakota . «87.20 +o 1.20 eeecceee OM 6.00 Weekly by mail. in state. per year Weekly by mail. in state three years for . Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, per year Member Audit Bureao of Circulation ix Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for republication ot al! news dispatches credited to It or Mot otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the | loeai news of spontaneous origin publisheo herein All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payné Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State an@ County Newspaper) RACIAL INFANCY CROPS UP AGAIN ‘The superstitions that were born during the race’s in- fancy die hard. Just as we had nicely forgotten ti murder, another one pops up—' Mich. The bare outline of the story is almost unbelievabie, for this year 1929. ‘A middle-aged married couple are ¢ Quite calmly, as if he were tciling some tale which any rea- sonable man ought to understand, the man explained how it was that he and his wife had killed a 76-year-old widow who lived in a home for aged people. “It had to be done,” he said. “She could kill anyone with a look. She could give you any kind of disease with her evil eye. Why, she has killed more than a hundred People.” Michigan ranks as one of our most “forward” states. Kalamazoo is widely known as a cultured “homey” city. It is not filed with immigrants, nor does it have wretched slums and gloomy tencment neighborhoods. It is pre- cisely the sort of place you would name if you were asked to pick out a town that could represent the middle-sized American city at its best. Yet, in a town like this, there are, apparently, people whose minds are no more enlightened than the minds of Superstitious peasants in the middle ages; people who believe in the evil cye, in spelis and incantations, in ghostly and sinister powers that lurk in the air ready to bring death and destruction to honest folk. That, of course, means that there are such people in all our cities and towns. No place of any size is free from them. Demonism and sorcery are not yet subjects solely for the antiquarian. And all of this exists side by side with advances in technical and scientific knowledge that sometimes per- suade us that the race is almost ready to move on to the great heritage which all its gifted dreamers have fore- seen! Our development is too uneven. We are moving with amazing speed, on the surface; but underneath we hardly Seem to be moving at all. Somehow we must find a way to equalize things—or we shall stumble into a dreadful mess. The mass of people has always been superstitious and blind, but it has never particularly mattered before. But this modern age demands modern minds. How can a man who believes in witchcraft and sorcery make his way among wireless telephony, X-ray cameras and television cabinets? He simply can't handle himsclf. It is like let- ting a child play with matches in a powder mill. A democracy needs a high standard of universal educa- tion to function well. A mechanized democracy, like ours, needs it ten times as much. The mere existence of ig- norant superstition means that a deep abyss is gaping be- neath our entire social structure. Kalamazoo, THE ART OF BUYING ‘The art of selling might be enlarged in this country, but in perfection of style, in variety of persuasion, it hardly needs addition. Not merely goods, but villages, cities, states are “sold’—so put before the eye and car as to be irresistible. It may be different with the women, but simply ordi- nary man is more or less dazed and powerless as a buyer, At he fails to see what he wants, he takes something he doesn't want rather than seek elsewhere. And very often, ‘without a real want in the world, he buys something he has no need for when he is “talked into it” by some "high-pressure salesman or some equally persuasive win- dow display or advertisement, ‘What man, no matter how ordinarily prudent he be, hasn't bought again and again something he didn't want; ‘missed again and again the opportunity to buy something he pined for? ‘The subject remains a msytery. But it is a comfort to believe that “most of our contemporaries are absolutely helpless at the decisive moment of making a purchase or siving an order. They are without logic or method just ‘at the moment when they should be strongly armed to Meutralize the offensive of a skillful seller.” ‘There cannot be too many treatises on the art of buy- fing. It should equal the seller's art, and the only reason 4t doesn't is because the seller is taught and constantly Practices his while expert instruction is seldom accessible ‘to the buyer and he usually forgets to practice his art Opportunities present themselves daily. And if buyers at times pay too much for things they do ot want, that in the end is good for business and ought to be good for the customer, sharpening and stiffening his faculty of decision and perspicacity, TEACHERS the only law that is strictly obeyed without forced is the first law of nature—self-preserva- i of self-defense explains why more people does not swallow up more bathers, why so many ‘would-be suicides change their minds just in time or just to be taught to defend his take away from the schocls and collezes their most able educators. ‘When parents begin to think as seriously about the in- | dividuals responsible for the mental training of their children as they do about their servants, the profession | of teaching wil! come into its own. REFUTING THE L i-FACE The pessimists, who were numerous and vociferous only | & twelvemonth or so ago, assuring society that the world ‘as headed for the demnition bow-wows because of the moral degeneration of the young pcople of both sexes, | | have been “piping down” of late. They have had their | day—but their charges were unconvincing—and now the other side is being heard. Pudiate the pessimists and go farther to describe the | modern boy as five times as decent, as truthful and as | manly as the boys of their own youth. | A clinching corroboration of these approbations of modern youth is the declaration by another champion of the present-day boy—he happens to be a bishop—that it Perfectly absurd to think that the world could be over- turned by a people born during the last two decades. | The churchman who said “we cannot make the younger gencration the nation’s scapegoat” hit the nail on the head. Whatever youth is today it is exactly what preced- | ing generations made it. | Neither are the young women of t | champions from the effete generations. them find them no worse in any respect | in some respects than their mothers ar Most of these unfavorable and unfa Younger generation are from those hu have forgotten their own youth and wou! the standards of old age. without their Workers among ‘h better nothers. antiques who measure youth | MECHANIZING THE FARMS The way in which the engine is replacing the horse on American farms is strikingly illustrated by figures issued by ghe department of commerce. 1R1918 American farmers owned more horses than ever before—more than 21,500,000. By 1923, however. this total had shrunk to 14,541.000—a decline far too great to be explained simply on the basis of the agricultural de- Pression. In the same time the use of tractors increased amaz- ingly. In 1920 there were only 229,332 tractors in use in the American farm belt. Last year this figure had risen to 7861,745—and it’s still going up. This is a significant trend. Increasing mechanization may yet do much to lift the farmer beck to his old po- sition of economic independence. Still, it's just as good manners to pick up the last bit of lettuce with your fingers as to chase it with a fork and cuss it. A “dominant personality” is jyst a chap who knows what he wants. You can't lead. you know, if you don't know which way to go. We don't know just what an “uncivilized noise” is in Turkey, but it's probably an Armenian yelling for his in- terest. Each section is individual, and about all that Americans | have in common is the aspirin habit. ‘There isn't one man out of a thousand who realizes that he can be one man out of a thousand. It takes all kinds of people to make a world and cat | all kinds of candy on sale now. The final test of gentility 1s the abifity to disagree | without being disagreeable. | About all that ever happens in a hick town is another bond issue. Editorial Comment | AMERICAN PRAISE FOR MUSSOLINI (Philadelphia Bulletin) In the exchange of courtesies between Ambassador | Fletcher and Mussolini as the ambassador gives up his | Italian mission there is a note of cordiality lifting them | above the ordinary level of diplomatic amenities. Particularly strikirg is Mr. Fletcher's tribute to the vis- | ible effects on the country of Mussolini leadership. It | would be outside of the ambassador's province to pass on the merits of Fascism as a system of political Philosophy. But he does feel called upon to testify to the interest and sympathy with which he has followed the steady progress and orderly development of the Mussolini plans for the “renovation and transformation” of the country and to Place it on record that he himself has endeavored to help the American government and people to understand the “revolution and evolution” which have taken place in Italy under the duce's leadership. Revolution and evolution. That is the history of Italy and in the nearly seven years that have elapsed in Italy since the famous march on Rome. Mussolini has used the power that leadership in a successful revolution gave him to effect a singular transformation in the mind and soul as well as the political system of his country. The admiration which close contact with the effects of his leadership evokes in so sound an American as Mr. Fletcher cannot be ignored in any impartial outside at- tempt to evaluate the unique Fascist attempt to give a/ great modern state a new orientation. CANADA'S ECONOMIC FREEDOM (Duluth Herald) There has long been a latent fear amonz Canadians that their country was likely to be absorbed in an eco- nomic sense by its powerful neighbor, the United States. This thought, unpleasant to Canadians in general, never had a foundation in reality. The fact is that any capa- ble people owning and occupying a reasonable part of the earth's surface and being fairly self-sustaining, can- not be economically absorbed. The Scandinavian states have not been absorbed. Hol- land seems to hold her own against Germany, and Bel- gium has not been absorbed by France. Switzerland stands erect surrounded by much stronger powers. The matter goes with the will of the lesser power. But Canada does not need to rest on the apparent gen- eral rule. Specific facts lately in the news show that Canada 1s becoming more and more self-supporting, more and more economically independent, as she is politically, each passing year. Americans have over three billion dollars invested in Canada while Canadiens have almost & billion invested here. The total of British and Cana- dian dollars invested in Canadian enterprises is five and three-quarters billions. Of this great sum three and one- pat billions is Canadian money invested by the home Two educators of boys publicly and indignantly re- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SAT | And It Started Out A chain of alcohol cure sanitariums which has been famous as the last re- sort for drink victims ever since “The- Face-on: ‘Bar-Room-Floor” and “Father - dear -father-come-home-to- , announces that for the as patients women inebriates. In fact, sanitarium officials quite frankly say that women patients are now forming a large part of their comments and many reac- will be based upon this revela- tion. The rabid anti-Volsteadian will flaw it as full proof that this pres- ent era of gin-on-the-hip is infinitely than the old saloon cra. He will ask if we need any other fact be- fore deciding that somehow or other the dry era must vanish if we are to be saved. He will prattle about the good old wet days when “pure and holy wom- anhood was on her pedestal” even if and contrast it with the iniquitous present with woman off her pedestal and taking the cure. ee ® SAMPLING LIFE There is much more feod for means is hard to say. It means 50 many things. It means, for one, that woman is at last really experimentally sampling life, much as men always have, and that she is learning about the same things, sometimes to her joy. sometimes to her sorrow. It means that she has money of her own. The old-time woman couldn't imbibe enough to land in a sanitarium because she had no mone’ of her own to spend, was too busy drudging for some man to have time or energy to keep attractive enough to be asked to drink by somehody else, and she lived in an age when “good women” could not do certain things which “good men” could do and still be accepted by their communitics as “good men.” And I am not ready to say that even an age which has women who an age which permitted only men to “take the cure” is any worse than the saloon was around the corner, + thought here than this. Just what it ® . in the sense of experi- with hat life offered, and from her own experience building the best life for herself. o AND THEY SMOKE It is the age permitting women to experiment which is responsible for the fact that the cigaret consumption of this country has doubled within the last ten years. The more than fifty billion year! ‘igarets which are smoked now which weren't smoked a ‘Smokes for wome intelligent- reviewed by Allan Benson in cur- “Good Housekeeping.” He tells us that more girls in their teens are | now smoking thi years ago. smoke at their desks in busin fices as well as in restaurants and even on the streets and busops and in taxis, The author presents an imposing boys did twenty who moking is especially injurious men. plea is made that the commercial wiles of the day i form of radio, billboard. maga- zine, movie, et al, urging them to smoke. Ze points out that the youth of commercially be= girls be kept 's youth. All very top the efficiency of a@ money-is-all age? ° ° | BARBS | e More than 70,000 people crossed the to Walkerville and Windsor, ja. one day recently. They say the scenery up there is wonderful. * The custodian of a safety deposit vault in a Chicago bank says that spooners are invading the cool vault in increasing numbers. Probably they have a feeling of security there. ea ® Chewing gum is said to be gain- ing in popularity among the Scotch. We are waiting to see figures on the grocery business. * * * Detroit has barred a recent popular book as “vulgar.” That's the first in- timation we've had that books were read in Detroit. es 2 * A pessimist is a man who wears both belt and suspenders. (Ccpyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) cade ago are attributed to women’s | ‘icians who testify that! RDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929 1G | to Be Such a Lovely Picnic! | ‘Talks TORS, CANDIES | (By Alice Judson Peale) | “Here is a box of candies for you,” said Ann's mother. “But they are not Just for you; they are for all the chil- eren in camp. I want you to give them to your councilor so that she can distribute them.” “Oh, mother, that’s not fair. No- bedy else has to divide her candies h the rest. I'm not going to do it. k at Elsie—she’s had candy week, but do you think she'd ever of fer anybody a piece? I guess not! So why should 1?” “Why, Ann, I never knew that you so selfish. Just because Elsie is gish about her candy doesn’t mean vou should be. I should think like to set a good example. But ‘on't discuss it any more. Here, t the candies and do just as you please with them.” Ann took her candies with an ex- | pression in which were comically mingled both pleasure and shame over her unexpected victory. | “Tell you what, mother, I'll treat the girls in my bunk to some of it y. I won't keep it all for my- ally!” Ann's mother was wise just in the nick of time. Generosity cannot be forced. You may wish your child to be open handed, but you cannot com- pel him to be so. Most children do not naturally love | to share their sweets, or anything else which seems especially delightful. | But they can learn, slowly. They learn through the good exam- ple which you set. They learn through your warm approval of their spontaneous acts of generosity. They learn through the pleasure which ; comes to them from giving pleasure. Don't command your child to be | generous; let him come to it in his own time and in his own way. FATALITIES INCREASE Fatalities from automobile acel- | dents in the city and county of Los | Angeles for the first six months of | 1929 increased nearly 36 per cent, ac- cording to the Automobile Club of | Southern California. Deaths result- |ing from motor vehicle accidents to- |taled 358. ! ~~ I KNOW 7TH’ folks. This is a fine showing for Canadians, and when it is considered that sae a omar 4 ZA BUSTER, MACK AN’ IT ARE GOING ON OUR VACATION MONDAY UPfo BUSTER'S UNCLE'S FARM! WHO'LL Miss US WILL BE YouR GROCER AN’ BUTCHER ! ~~ BUT TELL "EM WELL COME BACK WITH APPETITES THAT WILL Ley MAKE UP B' vf “uo WEEKS’ Loss on We EE : SON evened ONLY ONES FoR THEIR ORDERS ! Time WELL, THREE NUISANCES AWAY, HERZOG AT YELLOWSTONE PARK, ~- AND MY BIGGEST BOTHER , THE MASOR, IN EUROPE, CLOSE UP “THIS MUSEUM AND VISIT MY SISTER IW CHICAGO! + THE FIRST HAD THE HOUSE on A PAYING BASIS ¢ | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | Wet Youd AN SST MISS CHURCH AND I THINK LLL I HAVE EveR DRINK WATER TO KEEP COOL If one wishes to keep cool during the warm weather, it is necessary to drink large quantities of water, or to use foods containing water abundant- ly, Water is the necessary medium with which the skin can regulate the temperature of the body. The skin acts as a sort of thermostat, keeping the body at about a temperature of 98.6 degrees whether on @ warm sum- mer's day, or a cold winter's night. On a hot day the millions of pores of the skin are constantly busy throw- ing off fine particles of moisture and in this way lowering the tempera- ture and eliminating waste products. Even the warmest day should not feel oppressive if one will allow his body to keep cool by regulating the diet, water drinking, and clothes. Avoid the rich, fatty foods. Keep the starches down to the minimum. Es- chew sweets. Wear light clothes. But be especially sure to eat large quan- tities of the juicy fruits and the fresh vegetables, and drink plenty of wa- ter. It is better to do most of the water drinking between meals when the stomach is empty so as not to over- distend the stomach by the combined food and water. At any time one should drink water when thirsty, but during the warm weather it is some- times a good plan to drink even a lit- tle more than desired. From about nine- o'clock to eleven o'clock in the morning it is wise to take from about one to two quarts of cool water. Cool water is more agreeable to the taste and scems to refresh, but I would not advise the use of ice cold drinks to any extent. In the afternoon between three and five o'clock it is advisable to take another quart of water, al- lowing not less than an hour to elapse before dinner. If this amount of water is used during the day you will not desire to drink much at meals or during the evening. The water taken in the morning does the most good, and it can be absorbed before and used during the warm pe- riod of the day. Only the purest water obtainable should be used, and if any doubt ex- ists as to the purity of the water it is always a good plan to use dis- tilled water, which is entirely free from minerals or bacterial micro- organisms. Not only is it advisable to use more drinking water, but it is also a good plan to use water externally to keep the skin clean and the mouths of the pores open so as to encourage a greater elimination of perspiration. Every man, woman and child should take at least two shower baths daily, and during the hot day it is very re- freshing to take a cold shower in the middle of the day. You do not have to fear any weakening effect from taking several shower batba, Remember this, that a clean body, inside and out, cannot sick body. ‘There is always more danger in not nd enough water than in using too much, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Depllatory Question: W. D. F. asks: “Will you Please tell me the name of the rosin and wax preparation for removing te, hair, and where it can be Answer: There are many such prep- arations on the market, and I am sure any druggist can supply you. My Policy is not to recommend any par- umn.’ ‘Tuberculosis Question: “T. B.” writes: “I have heard that in Russia they take the liver and lungs of a young calf and seal them up and boil them for 24 hours. This is then used in treat- | ing tuberculosis patients. Do you ‘think this treatment is useful or harmful?” Answer: There can be no special advantage in taking the food you have written about. A tubercular pa- tient needs to be dieted very carefully, but the main object of the diet should be to supply calcium deficiency and Provide the best tissue building ele- ments. Gastric Ulcer Question: G. H. writes: “I have a gastric ulcer, and do not seem able to take the milk diet. Do you have a diet which excludes milk and which would be suitable for me? Also keep up my weight, which is already below normal?” Answer: A liquid is necessary to Permit a gastric ulcer to heal. Solid food tears the healing surface of the scar and prevents @ cure. The milk diet has proved to be the most satis- factory, but if you have an idiosyn- crasy against milk, it might be neces- sary to substitute non-starchy vege- table broths made without you could use the orange i pecially if the work is heavy. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell cate, Inc.) COLUMBUS LEAVES SPAIN On August 3, 1492, Christopher Co- lumbus sailed from Palos, Spain, on his memorable voyage with the three tiny vessels—the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina. Provisioned- for a year and with 90 mariners aboard, the fleet proceed- ed to the Canary Islands, where the rig of the Pinta was altered. Re- pairs were completed and the ex- pedition left the Canary Islands Sep- tember 6. From the parallel of about 30 de- grees N. nearly to the equator there is a zone of perpetual winds—namely, the northeast trade winds—always dan, did $50,000 worth of damage, C. J. Broughton, St. Paul, passen- ger agent of the Chicago and Atlantic, Paid a visit to railway officials here yesterday. O. V. Davis of Mandan has pur- chased two silver tipped bears from a Montana man. According to reports received from the constitutional conventions of South Dakota, being held at Sioux Falls, that of Washington at Olympia, and that of Montana at Helena, the work of organizing a state government is not progressing any faster than it is here. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Professor O. G. Libby, of the depart- ment of history at the University of North Dakota, who has been spending some time at the Fort Berthold res- ervation, passed through Bismarck to- moving in the same direction, so that | day. the ships of Columbus were steadily carried to their destination by a law are di and the crew ter day passed became mutinous, but on October 11, about 10 p. m., Columbus saw a light. At 2 the next morning, land was dis- tinctly seen. The island, called by Columbus San Salvador, has now been ascertained to be Waiting Island, one of the ‘ After discovering several smaller islands, the fleet came in sight of Cuba October 27. Crossing the chan- nel between Cuba and Haiti, they an- chored in the harbor of St. Nicholas Mole December 4. The Santa Maria was wrecked after and it was necessary to leave small colony on the island when Columbus began the return voyage on January 3, 1493. “As for myself, I am not yet con- vinced that religion is no longer needed in the modern world.”—Henry Goodard Leech, editor The Forum. see “The world has finally learned . .. Miss Minnie Jorgenson, Milnor, is ie guest of Mrs. Graham for a few ays. The Bismarck baseball club has dis- banded for the season. Several thousand people are pre- Paring to register when the Devils Lake reservation will be opened for homesteaders. TEN YEARS AGO Governor Lynn J. Frazier and Com- missioner of Agriculture and Labor John N. Hagan addressed a farmers’ meeting at Ray yesterday. Bismarck consumed 24,485,500 gal- lons of water during July, the largest amount for any single month in the history of: the city. Donald McDonald, Bismarck violin- ist, bas seoeived ied et Hines ot bis composit! ve been accepted & New York company, and will be Published soon, Mrs. W. T. Brown and Mrs, J. R. Bankston have returned to Bismarck eg & month spent at Painted Woods ce, WAITLL SHE RETURNS “Your wife's @ blonde, isn't she?” “I'm not sure. She's down at the beauty parlor now."—Pele Mele, Paris. ticular’ advertised remedy in this col- -