The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLT'“ST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck women, however, still continued to serve, as the work grew and the fight for pure milk gained free impetus. Then, as now, the clinic physicians and nurses did not undertake to treat sick babies or prescribe for them, but taught hygiene, dieting, sanitation, fresh air, sunshine jand proper baby care. They saw to it, however, that @s second class mail matter. George D. Mann. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year......... seeeeee Daily by mail, per year (ir Bismarck).. Daily by mail, per year, (in state, outside Bismarck)........ Daily by mail, outside of North Dakot: Weekly by mail, in state, per year. seeees ‘Weekly by mail, in state, three years for.. Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, er year.. Membcr Audit Bureau of Circulatio: 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 published herein. All rights of republication of al’ other matter herein are reserved. Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON (Official City, State and County Newspaper) SAVING AND DESTROYING It is so much easier to destroy life than to save it that it seems odd that most of our monuments and memorial wreaths should go to the destroyers rather than to the saviors. That, however, is the way we do things. Some day, perhaps, we shall have a better sense of values. Mean- while— ‘The latter part of the 18th century and the first part of the 19th saw about as much wholesale destruction as has ever been crowded into a similar period of history. ‘The men who led in that destruction became famous. Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington—scores of books have been written about them, scores of statues have been crected to them. Every school boy knows who they were and what they did. It happens that there was an Englishman living in those days who managed to save more lives than the combined efforts of Wellington, Nelson, Napoleon and the rest destroyed. He has been dead a century but he is still saving lives, and he will continue to do so for cen- turies to come. His name was Edward Jenner. Is that name familiar to you? Probably not; most history books dismiss him 4 knowing than the names of the fighting men mentioned above. Jenner, born in 1749, was the son of a country clergy- man. He grew up in a day when smallpox was the most : Greaded disease known. One out of every four people in Europe and England either died of smallpox or carried utterly helpless before it. Jenner studied medicine and resolved to devote his life to the problem of smallpox. He had noticed the current belief in his native country district that milkmaids and farmers who had contracted the mild cowpox were im- Mune from smallpox, and he set to work to find out about it. Many years of study and experiment followed—until in 1800, he was able to present the results of his researches --. to the world and get the endorsement of 73 prominent Physicians. During the years that ensued Jenner him- self vaccinated more than 600,000 persons, and vaccina- tion became recognized by medical men everywhere as the great weapon against smallpox. The battlefields of Europe were bloody during these years. Armies moved and fought almost without ceasing, generals built vast reputations, the unwieldy ships of Lord Nelson sent their broadsides crashing into French, Danish and Spanish ships and Napoleon made his name @ household word. Thousands upon thousands of men $ were killed. But Jenner, the quiet son of a country Parson, was saving more lives than all of these battles ‘were destroying. Nelson has a great memorial column in London, ‘Napoleon has a mighty tomb in Paris—and not one man in a hundred can even tell who Jenner was! Some day, let us hope, we will be better able to recog- nize the higher form of greatness. ‘exporters are facing the most determined opposition they industries are equipped themselves to meet American competition as never before. And here's how. Buropean competitors. The European competitors, equally obliging, are spending the money in America— but, for machinery more modern than that used by ‘American manufacturers. The natural result is that European manufacturers have a decided advantage over ‘American producers in foreign markets. In brief, we lend the Europeans American money to buy American machinery to undersell American manufacturers, "The trouble is, of course, that some American indus- President and Publisher = when Muskegon’s infant death rate was 103 deaths per +» 5.00 with a paragraph. But the name is far more worth | its disfiguring scars throughout life. Medical science was | IRONY Observers of world trade conditions say that American. have yet encountered in foreign markets. European America, the bountiful, is lending millions to her! survive. Why do ringneck pheasants prosper, while the sick babies came under the care of doctors. Now there are cight baby clinics, held weekly at schools in various parts of the city. And what has been the result of all this since 1918 | 1000 births? The rate has dropped continuously and the figures for 1928, just compiled and the latest available, show a rate of only 59.2, which was a decrease of 18 points under even the previous year and well below the average for the nation. That's what the women of one city did and that's the interesting story that lies behind their accomplishment. Truly, the public-spirited club women of other cities might emulate their Muskegon sisters with equally benc- ficial results and the saving of baby lives. IT IS FALL Lodges are getting their winter's activities under way. Young folks are wooing terpischore. There is a smell of camphor in many homes as mah jong sets are being opened up. New loud speakers are being installed for the radio. Study circles are resuming. There is hot competition around the reading lamp for possession of the home town paper. Bridge is still played. There is some demand for corn-poppers. The ice man looks a little glum but the electrie-light meter reader wears a smile like a split watermelon as he scts down the figures. It has been a wonderfully fine summer with more than usual opportunities for outdoor enjoyments. But it will be fine to have the fall rains, too, and later the nip of frost and the sheen of snow. Just as one of the fine things about going away from home is to come back there, so one of the fine things about summer is that finally we come to its end and to normal change. Sea- sons lend variety and prevent monotony. And cach of them in Bismarck is enjoyable. THE CHANGES OF 70 YEARS It is interesting to note that just 70 years ago the 25th of this month the first producing oil well in the United States was drilled in Pennsylvania. Seventy years—precisely the Scriptural “three score and ten” of the average lifetime! The results that have | followed on the drilling of that first well are almost incalculable. ‘We are a motorized nation—which means, of course, that our economic and social machine could not function without oil. That one well has multiplied to more than | 325,000. Oil has completely changed our entire life. Somehow, it seems as if that first well ought to have some kind of tablet in memorial. It was the beginning of a new era. WHY THE BRITISH PROTEST It has been the tendency in America to ‘blame the British government rather severely for its recent strenu- ous protest against the reparations settlements as pro- vided in the Young plan. There are several important points to remember, how- ever. At previous reparations conferences it has always been England that has had to make the concessions. England has settled her war debts at a far higher rate than France has. England has suffered much more from. the post-war depression than have her allies. All in all, it is small wonder that the British have felt moved to protest. Americans would do well to study the situation @ little before passing judgment. | Editorial Comment PROTECTING THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN (St. Paul Dispatch) | Is the Minnesota prairie chicken, like the heath hen | of Martha's Vineyard, doomed to decline? Organized sportsmen again are petitioning Governor Christianson to close the hunting season by proclamation, which he has authority to do under Minnesota law. Various means have been proposed to save the bird from what some- times seems cure extinction. Methods usually urged are to stop hunting and to exterminate birds of prey such as hawks and crows. This year the prairie chickens are re- Ported plentiful in some parts of the state and scarce in with the abundance of former days. It is true that under greatly improved protection from hunting the prairie chicken has become more plentiful in the past decade. But failure of the bird to propagate as well as expected suggests tne probability of other factors | contributing to its decline. Cultivation of the prairie and destruction of cover have caused great changes in its environment. There lways the possibility that disease, | so strongly suggested he cause of widespread decima- tion of ruffed grouse, may be an undetected foe. Moreover, the introduction of alien game birds some- times upsets the balance of nature, and perhaps in this case has not improved the prairie chicken’s chances to native Minnesota bird has a struggle to maintain meager numbers? Sportsmen might answer the question wholly in terms of open hunting seasons. That explanation is inadequate. If the prairie chicken is deprived of its natural environment, it can not be expected to. thrive. THE PRISON PROGRAM | | ,DAY.... The average woman is a born de- tective—her well known woman's in- tuition being the best huncher in the world. However, women never have distinguished themselves as actual de- tectives engaged in unraveling crime, and to my knowledge there is only one woman in the country who has her own honest-to-goodness agency. She is Miss Jennings, and her beautifully exclusive part of Fifth avenue in New York city. * She was the first woman in the city to take out a license, and previous to that she had had 13 years of actual situations. She finds her Sherlock Holmes ac- tivities particularly desired in guard- ing wedding presents, looking up financial and social ratings, and in getting odd bits of information that [are more apt to come & woman's way ; than a man’s. Incidentally, she loves her job. ** & DRAB WALLS GO There are times when one feels that the craze for color has gone far enough, what with red tea kettles, blue mixing bowls, green tables, pink coal buckets. But the tendency of dec- orators to win us away from dull, drab, colorless walls and give us a colorful background deserves consid- erable credit. Walls this fall are being featured in green, blue, pink, yellow and orchid, as well as in the conventional cream and gray. There is a decided advan- others. Numbers generally are very small in comparison "tage here, economically, for with a green or pink background the furni- ture must be very simple and incon- spicuous, and the fewer gimcracks and gadgets the better. If money is short in the home, as it often is, color is cheaper than tap- estry hangings or mahogany—and it is surprisingly effective. ees JEWELS? BAH! A certain blooded lady robbed of a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of jewels the other day, and who set a regiment of square-jawed Pinkertons on the trail, opined that she didn't believe in jewels anyway; that it was decorated agency is right up in the, experience in ferreting out mysterious | Perfect folly to wear so much money H in jewels when no one could tell them from paste, anyway. | That's something like a man who jhas dined sumptuously telling the starving tramp that food doesn’t mat- ter, anyway. ees SON FIRST King Michael is kept too much the {child and not enough the monarch, jaccording to certain Rumanian fac- | tions who criticize the fact that little | King Michael is constantly accom- panied by his mother, the Princess Helen, and his grandmother, Queen Marie. They criticize the fact that either the princess or the queen holds his hand when he appears in public. Even that great power, “The Peo- ple,” may have to yield to maternal instinct, which insists on keeping ‘young and protecting even kings if j the kings happen to be sons or grand- sons, BARBS J H New frocks are called “the last | word.” That's what the ladies want. eee A tourist is a person who can find out more about a town in 10 minutes than the oldest residents learn in a lifetime, | e eee It may be all right to take an oc- casional flyer in the stock market, but don't be sold yourself. * * * The market quotation for a wife in \certain African lands is a goat and a cow. It would be crass even to sug- gest that some investigation be launched there into profiteering. The last name ‘in the New York telephone directory is Zzyzz. Prob- | ably some speakeasy proprietor. xk The horse is supposed to be the friend of man, but this doesn’t hold good when you place a jockey on the animal. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) SHORT-LIVED JOY ‘The man who had been held up by bandits was very bitter about it. |, For & moment,” he said, “my heart leaped with joy. I thought they said: ‘Your money or your wife.’”—Tit- Bits. DON’T TAKE MUCH You'll drive me out of my mind. He: That's not a drive—that's a putt.—Life. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929 SLPS SE IED RETR eV CSE I TTT TZ | An Important Stock holder in the Firm! TOO NEAT (By Alice Judson Peale) Mrs. Ewing's house is beautiful. The floors shine, the woodwork is immaculate. The perfection of the living room is never marred by care- lessly thrown belongings and miscel- laneous litter. Shelves and closets have been ar- ranged in the most perfect order. The exquisite housekeeping of Mrs. Ewing’s home is the wonder of her neighbors who add to their marveling the remark that it is strange that Mrs. Ewing's children should all be so 8] and untidy. “With a mother like that you would think they gvould learn to be neat if they never learned anything else,” say the neighbors. ‘Yet that, if you are wise, is exactly what you would not think. You would know that whsre neatness has e @ matter of such outstanding importance the children are almost sure to rebel against its tyranny. While they are little they may be compelled to conform, but as they grow older their suppressed resent- ment breaks forth and they revel in slovenliness. A reasonable degree of order is de- sirable in every home, but when or- derliness becomes an end in itself, as it does with so many zealous house- wives, it succeeds in making miser- able everyone but the housekeeper. The children learn to hate all neatness as an odious reminder of the naggings and scoldings it has caused them. Don't be too neat. Be neat enough and reconcile yourself to the casual disorder caused by pleasant living. Remember that a living room is not @ museum but a living room. Chil- dren who grow up in a home which does not exact too many sacrifices in the name of neatness will be as neat as it is sensible to be. "N MUSHY Fair customer: I want a pencil. Assistant: Hard or soft? Fair Customer: Soft; it’s for writ- ing a love-letter—Answers, The forest measuring worm, when alarmed, will stand out so straight and still from a limb that even the birds think him a small twig and pass him by. (Washington Star) The country has been shocked in recent days by revolts in @ number of the great penal institutions of the coun- These revolts have occurred both in State and ARE WOMEN GROWING BALD When the bobbed hair vogue first appeared, there was considerable dis- cussion as to whether it would re- sult in women becoming bald, as many people believed that the Yrequent cutting of the hair was responsible for the numerous cases of baldness with men. There is no truth in this theory. however, as cutting the hair does not have any tendency toward Producing baldness. The loss of hair is always caused by something which affects the nutrition of the hair roots, or by local disease of the scalp, There is some ground to the belief that the tight hats which men wore @ few years ago were responsible for many cases of baldness. If women adopt tight-fitting hats which inter- fere with the circulation of the hair roots, there may be more cases of baldness among them, too. Some people have a natural ten- dency toward longer hair than others because their hair grows more rap- idly, or it may become longer be- Cause it does not break off as readily because it contains a natural oil which makes it less brittle. eral circulation will also be helpful, 2s the blood will then circulate better Dr. . McCoy rs personal questions on health and diet addressed to him, care of The will gladly answer ™gncleo close a sta addressed envelope for reply. CS through the scalp as well as the Of the body. ees It is important to use all of the foods containing silicon, which is the Principal mineral usually lacking in defective hair growth. A list of the foods richest in silicon is as follows: Asparagus, cucumbers, lettuce, bran, dandelion, parsnips, fruit skins, straw- berries and beets. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Trouble With Stomach Question: Mrs. H. G. FP. writes: “1 have a place at the top of my stomach on the right side that gives me some trouble, something like the colic, every month. Can you tell me what it is and the remedy? I am very As people grow older, there is a tendency to have less circulation to; the top of the head and baldness be- comes more common. It might be @ good idea for bald-headed people to imitate Father William who stood on his head every day of his life to keep young. Dandruff is another frequent cause of baldness. Daily brushing the hair helps to increase the circulation. Cir- culatory lifting, kneading and press- ing the muscles in massage is very beneficial. It is also a good plan to wash the hair at least once a week. The skull separates the scalp from the brain, and one of the commonest causes of baldness is what is called a tight scalp. The skin of bald- headed people is usually thin, and the bald-headed person cannot, as a rule, wiggle his scalp back and forth. One with a tight scalp can avoid becoming bald, if he will use some method of increasing the scalp cir- culation, Tonics are practically of no value, but a good treatment is the daily application of ice to the scalp. Hold a piece of ice to the different places of the bald spot until the skin reacts and becomes red. Then mas- sage thoroughly with the fingertips, rubbing in a small amount of cocoa- nut oil or almond oil. Sunburning scalp with short treatments from the sunlight or from actinic ray lamp is also helpful. All vigorous physical culture exercises to increase the gen- stout, weigh about 240 pounds. Can you tell me something to reduce my weight?” Answer: The distress you have on your right side may be due to gall bladder trouble, to stomach irritation, or to colitis in the hepatic flexure of the colon. As you are overweight, the sensible thing to do is to diet to re- duce your weight, and your symptoms will no doubt disappear while on the diet which is necessary, for you to take to bring about a satisfactory Weight. reduction. Space in this col- umn is limited, but I will be glad to send you complete instructions on how to reduce. Ice Cream and Fruits Question: Health seeker asks: “May ice cream or fruit be caten be- tween meals without interfering with digestion?” Answer: Fruit and ice cream must both be considered real foods and should therefore be used in place of & meal, or may be used in addition to & meal if combined with those foods with which they are harmonious. Erysipelas Question: J. L. asks: “Is erysipe- las a blood or a skin disease? What is the cause and cure of this disease?” Answer: I consider the true cause of erysipelas to be an acidosis pro- duced through the use of wrong food. It is true there is a particular bac- terium associated with this disease, but this micro-organism cannot live in.a body free from acidosis, France, where he served with the American forces for 20 months, SEA LAADS 5 “A person cannot pattern his life after Christ’s and at the same time snub or lord it over other people. A recognition of brotherhood must fol- low.”—Dr. E. Stanley Jones. x eK | Cueto oe es a st A a CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE On Aug. 31, 1886, a violent earth- | quake, the worst in the history of the “Independence will not preserve a nation; morality and education are the ultimate salvation.”"—Thomas G. Masaryk. ze * “If the intellectual has any func- and unbiased judgment in the face of United States at that time, did heavy damage in Charleston, 8. C. In this catastrophe, 27 were killed outright and many were fatally in- jured. Ninety per cent of the build- ings were damaged and three-fourths habitable. tion in society, it is to preserve a cool i the town was rendered unin- all solicitations to passion.”—Ber- trand Russell. (Forum.) eee “The one fatal thing in life is to lose one’s interest in it.”"—Sir R. Blomfield. x * * “Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog.”"—Sherwood Ander- son, see “The lip-service paid to peace is astounding, but among the olive branches the bayonet still gleams.”— H. G. Wells. oe * “I find that, when I leave America for Europe, I am better posted on what is happening in Europe than I am after I get there and have to de- pend on the European press.”—Otto H. Kahn. ae “People argue this: since death is immobility, movement is life; when, in the opinion of many, great speed is the great life.”—Paul Morand. * Our Yesterdays ] Property loss alone was estimated at $8,000,000, but the damage was soon repaired and today Charleston is the largest city in South Carolina and an important South Atlantic seaport. The earthquake of 1886 was only one of many disasters that have caused e in Charleston. A hurricane and epidemic together dev- astated the town both in 1699 and 1854. The older and more thickly Populated part of the town was burned in 1740 and a hurricane did great damage in 1752. Charleston was the first English settlement in South Carolina. It was established in 1670 and at first was called Charles Town in honor of Charles II. FOR BUSINESS REASONS An Irish priest offered sixpense to the boy who ‘could tell him who was the greatest man in history. “Christopher Columbus,” answered one boy. “George Washington,” answered another boy. “St. Patrick,” shouted a bright lit- tle Jewish lad. “The sixpense is yours,” said the WHY MAvoR t~ I REALLY ; SHOULD BE ~v AH, MY DEAR MRS. GARNEY, I AM, tries, especially the older ones, have not kept abreast | Federal prisons. The fact that revolts, leading in each priest; “but why did you say St. Pat- FORTY YEARS AGO rick?” @f the advance in manufacturing equipment. The manu-| ‘78t@NCe to the loss of life, were almost coincidental, INDEED GLAD 1 SEE You! ~~ EGADy s 5 é ‘William Ross has secaes A Dati 1 ee fos gh beet | ey acturers of automobiles have not hesitated to scrap | these insite Tan rete Prisoners in YoU ARE AS CHARMING AS EVER ~~ W ANGRY “AT: YoU | wae ih mae “put business is business!"“TitBita ‘obsolete machinery. But some textile manufacturer, | ner had communicated with ¢ each other and laid thelr AND GETTING MoRE IFUL LOOKING N WHY DIDNT You Be seas na Aedes plbaribee piece doin \" Whether there be any truth in these suspicions EVERY DAY we is. I Ave CALL ME ON “THE show that some pleces of wheat are IT SUITS HIM + these revolts, led by desperate criminals, but joined y many of the prisoners, have served to focus atten- ‘Reenest of competition from the Central European states, skied the tone i The eee Gloramamant as. par ‘ej facilities in the Fede itutions to fall far fwhere mills have been modernized by American ma: behind the Mt the i Proud Parent: What kind of a man is this fiance of yours? : Prudence (his daughter): Well, he ' says he has always wanted a home. Proud Parent: That sounds good. PHONE 10! COME * OVER AND Do UP “He Distes 2? averaging 20 bushels to the acre. Major Hamilton, chief clerk of the recent constitutional convention, ar- OPTEN REMARKED “O MRS. HOOPLE How WELL YoU KEEP YOURSELF ~~ AND SHE,BY THE WAY, IS OFF esterday to complete his whinery. has promptly come forward with a MISITING HER SISTER, LEAVING ~~ Ler Me HAVE i aga Prudence: And he likes ours very SIE erento oo. ate wting nce exty heme mac. | 20 th ta ter ol tokens Seat NAN to ME MANAGE “He HOUSE — WHICH «| THe KEY 10 YouR —— ee and the establishment of a new prison i ’ 4 northeastern states In the opinion of the HOUSE, AND CLL Go TIDY UP YouR KITCHEN RIGHT geives but furnish the rope as well. WHAT ONE CITY DID ‘Muskegon, LT Do EXCELLEASTLY, WiTH “He EXCEPTION OF WASHING DISHES! ~ Ad Me, I - CAN'T MASTER “THAT FINE ART <—~ He SINK IS FULL oF DISHES Now) AND T AM COMPLETELY = |=~ AT A LOSS AS HOW FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: story. a years ago the infant death rate in Muskegon was alarmin Of every 1000 babies born, 103 died in their at year. Something had to be done, but there was no| is to send municipal agency to cope directly with the | facilities to SEES tel [