The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1929, Page 4

Wash Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Moover- the pub not get The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLI' “ST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘BS second class mail matter. Seorge D. Mann.. +President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance by carrier per year ey, by mail, per year by mail, per year, » (in state, outside Bismarck).. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota p Weekly by mail, in state, per ycar Weekly by mail, in state, three ycars for. » 1.00 per year a Memb-r Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Some The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use virtualliigor republication of all news dispatches credited to it or has MO'not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the there Wiocal news of spontancous origin published herein. All Position rignts of republication of al' other matter herein are alone. nearly * or“ was 000.000, Thus enthusi over St bur's away tl thing e vised p States « also reserved. fre: ‘ont Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. iO NEW YORK CHICAG " BOSTON (Official City, State and County Newspaper) PERHAPS WE'VE GOT TOO MUCH COMMON SENSE mot the Everybody knows that common sense is an extremely Undo Valuable trait. But the ability to be foolish in the right politicis Way, sometimes is worth every bit as much. who But th ground ernmer:: ‘Ww: Perhaps that needs a little explaining. A news story from Tokio the other day remarked that 17 officers and enlisted men of the Japanese navy would ‘long vhave committed suicide if the Graf Zeppelin had not ‘be unlecompleted its flight across the Pacific safely. states has b ‘These Japanese sailors were members of the ground trew at the Kasumigaura air station, near Tokio. They ‘opposit helped take the Graf Zeppelin out of its hangar, on the The gay that a gale jammed the ship against the hangar clare t and th: entrance and damaged a motor gondola; and they felt |" gervatic themselves to blame. to save So, if the ship had come to grief on the next leg of its Tesoure Hight, they would have felt that the only way for them to ‘They that tt ‘atone for their blunder would be to kill themselves. to har You cannot possibly imagine a group of Americans that vifeeling that way about it. Committing suicide to clear bitthels one’s honor is peculiarly a Japanese custom. There is no Sor common sense to it. It is, from our viewpoint, utterly } Jegisint foolish. weak ® ‘Yet back of that custom there lies one of the most ad- Segund pairable traits in the Japanese character. — In order to feel that way about things, a man must We a code of honor so high and so strict that he does care to keep on living if it be in any way stained. must be deeply convinced that it is better not to [live at all than to live below his moral standard. He ‘must, in other words, have an ideal of conduct for which ihe ts always ready to dic. New This works out, with the Japancse, in a way that secms from to us almost insane, sometimes. ‘GCroesu Two or three years ago a Japancse warship sent a land- Ameri ing party ashore at a Chinese port to escort Japanese ‘Tt méivilians td safety. The officer in charge was ordered ‘nder no circumstances to fire on the Chinese mob un- ‘on #55 the mob fired first. tl The mob did not fire; but for two miles it hooted and cursed the Japanese, shouting all kinds of hard names, flinging decayed vegetables and handfuls of mud. ‘The officer carried out his mission and took the civil- fans to safety. Then he went to his stateroom, drew his ® revolver and shot himself. His code did not permit him to endure insults without gstriking back. He had been insulted and had not been ; ‘operat able to retaliate; so there was nothing Icft for him but ) @008D" suicide. Now that, of course, was utterly foolish. But it was also Den magnificent. It was a thing no American would have “done. But the high code of honor that lay back of it was bea thing that every American might envy. @eloch tis just possible that we sometimes have a little bit co 00 much common sense to be really high-minded. NO AMERICAN L. OF N. It was highly questionable from the first that the Pan- American Union would ever be placed upon a treaty basis. TEE Gs nat notion has been defeated, no.grent loss is to be a, ‘The idea of an American league of nations may be a ‘the Pleasant one to play with. But such an idea could mater- falize only out of a powerful political necessity. This "3 Becessity does not exist today in the western hem- Alec isphere. Among the nations concerned, nationalistic and ex- pansionist aspirations are for the present muted. Wer is —_ scarcely thought of, even in the case of the strong antag- onism which exists between at least two of the South American republics. And any Latin-American nation would consider long before starting a conflict which ‘would be frowned upon by the United States. | The time may come when pressure toward a closer po- union will be heavier than it is today. But neither Pan-American nor the world situation indicates any Necessity for such a course at present or within Ethe immediate future. ri President Hoover is proceeding on the wise assumption nts and nations are binding them together closer any treaty or pact, no matter how solemnly arrived INSPECT YOUR AUTO of having the family auto inspected for mechanical defects is a thing most of us ‘We take it for granted that things are safe ph d, sometimes, discover that something is ‘only when it causes disaster. ‘The Baltimore Automobile club and police recently stopped and inspected as many autos as they could lay hands on. Of 193,354 cars inspected, they found than 31,000 that needed brake adjustments inorder in the steering gear and nearly 40,000 needed ad- of lights, ‘Those are small matters, perhaps—but they are just the @f thing that can cause “unavoidable” accidents. ving ® mechanic check the operation of your car every is eabential to safe driving. ssc opus are dernier ete cs- 5.00 | ++ 2.80 sponsored the establishment in Palestine of a national 130! home for tie Jewish people, making it clearly under- j fered in the recent uprisings, to placate. there is no likelihood that the risk int in these con. siderations 13 going to decrease—rather, it will increasec— the outlook is that automobile casualty insurance will Stay up. j However this may be, the Insurance rates emphasize the need of some method of compensating for injuries at | the hands of motorists who are not financially responsible and who carry no insurance. They must be chargeable with their full share of the mounting toll of accidents. BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS Great Britain, holding the mandate for Palestine. should be sympathized with rather than censured in the Present crisis there. Hers is a responsibility which no other nation would accept. knowing the situation. Under the Balfour declaration of 1917, Great Britain | stood that nothing would be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. In other words, the Arab in- habitants and landowners were not to bs dispossessed or discouraged, or deprived of their civil and religious rights. But London bit off a bigger piece than she could chew. Doubtlessly she has protected the rights of all, but it was not within her power nor within the power of any other nation to prevent Arabs and Jews alike from entertain- ing the suspicion and fear that their rights were in danger, if not actually encroached upon. The grievances in the Holy Land probably are largely imaginary, but they have proved as dangerous as real ones. Today. the poor, troubled mother of the British em- pire not only has some millions of warring Arabs and Jews to pacify but several nations, whosé nationals suf- THE DANGER OF FASTING A Chicago man not long ago joined a health cult. With other members he went to a tent colony in Colorado and began a prolonged fast, which was guaranteed to, bring “youth, truth and health” to all who tried it. Today the Chicago man is dead. Doctors who exam- ined his wasted body sald that he simply starved himself to death. The tent colony, it should be addcd, is break- ing up—quite understandably. This sort of thing happens every so often; often enough, indeed, to make a word of warning necessary for those who may be led astray by the extravagant claims made by cranks for. the cure-all of fasting. Never, under any circumstances, go without food ex- cept on the advice of a reputable physician. You may hear countless tales of men who have built up their health in that way—but there are even more tales of men who have killed themselves trying it. A VETERAN’S MYSTERY It would be interesting to know what the story was that George Marco, of Schenectady, N. Y., carried to his grave with him. Marco recently died, in his 80's. After his death it was discovered that he had been a Civil war veteran with a distinguished record—a fact that he had kept secret throughout his life. For 40 years he had had a job in a Schenectady armory. He watched the soldiers march off to the war with Spain, and he watched them march off for the war with Germany; but he never revealed to any of them that he, too, had been a soldier. Why did he keep that secret? Service in the Civil war is something that most meg are highly proud of. What hidden reason made George Marco keep his war record a dark secret throughout his life? Incase Mr. Rockefeller is interested in picking a “Young Rockefeller.” it is here mentioned that a boy scout in London picked up a match stub discarded by the Prince of Wales and sold it for $1.75. Editorial Comment A FRIEND OF LAME DUCKS «Nation's Business) For more than twenty years there has been an almost constant cry that the “lame duck” session of congress in which serve men who have been defeated at the polls is @ menace to the country. Opposition to such a change is taken by John @. Tilson, majozity leader, house of representatives. This veteran legislator not only refuses to be alarmed at the so-called menace of # “lame duck” session but sees a real danger in trying to change it. He goes on to say in this magazine: “The thought that for even a few months a group of ‘repudiated politicians,’ as they are sometimes termed, should continue to vote on legislation fills some of our statesmen with alarm. They contend that the Constitu- tion should be amended so that the president. the vice President and members of congress should take office immediately after election. They wish ‘lame ducks’ to die & quick rather than a lingering death. “I have never been able to get excited over the dangers that might befall the country through ‘that the mutual trade relations between the American | acter. DR. SPEARS DEBUNKS THE SEASON (Minneapolis Tribune) Minnesota football enthusiasts who have been counting their chickens three months before hateh- ing time apparently didn’t consult Dr. Clarence W. Spears about the prospects. The What! he DAY. It is reported that Colonel Lind- bergh smiled broadly and looked tre- mendously proud when his wife, after | nine hours of instruction from him, opened the throttle and made her solo flight at the wheel of her plane. One can't help wondering if he lost his temper at any time during his te ing, or if she flew into tears. We’ all witnessed the family ructions that threaten when the average man tries to teach his wife to drive the new auto. had to get the man from the Bi "many a wife has told rhe. “Jack and I would have had to get a divorce or one of us been up for murder if he had continued to be my instructor.” ‘The colonel has certainly added an- other laurel to his already loaded brow. * * NATURAL ACROBATS A little girl, eleven years, amazed the professional dancing teachers at their recent convention. She had never appeared in public, though she had been doing acrobatic dancing since she was a mere infant. Children are natural acrobats, and they should be encouraged to stretch their slim little bodies, in natural play, and to get the satisfaction and thrill that comes from controlling [their muscles and making them obey inds. their minds. One of the most successful dancing teachers in New York, who teaches control of the body. and considerably more than just steps, has one class devoted to older women—most of them business women. Most of them have completely forgotten how to do the simplest gymnastics which they did perfectly Agharely as children. KINKS, SKIDOO! First they must learn to relax and to become children again, to get the kinks out of their spine, and to move and gracefully. To watch this class gives the onlooker nonce of the is afforded by ing and stretching on the floor or in- terpreting music in their own way. Has the O} do not expect to become dancers or they do not expect to put Marilyn Miller out of business. They are try- ing to get back what/ they should never have lost—limberness, agility and joy in physical activity. They are salvaging what they can from the years in which they neglected their bodies in their struggle to get on in |the world. And they are doing mar- vels for their health, and getting kinks out of their minds as well as their muscles. “Cruelty, in its many forms, is the one detestable vice against which all the powers of good are in rebellion. —Sir Oliver Lodge. xk * “The Socialist party has gained of- | fice by making promises they cannot fulfill."—Winston Churchill. sk ek “In a strict sence of the word there can be no rudeness toward the office of president. You cannot very well insult a symbol."—Heywood Brown. (The Nation.) * ek * “Vigorous enforcement will increase sobriety, for drinking naturally de- creases as it becomes more difficult ito secure intoxicants."—Francis Scott | McBride. (Forum.) { ake “The investor must not assume that, because the principles are sound, any investment trust is as good as the best.” — Professor Irving Fisher. (North iasecile 1 Review.) se F “America is at bottom a new land of budding localisms, very much as Europe was at the end of the migra- tion of peoples.”—Mermann Keyser- ling. (Atlantic Monthly.) WHEAT 18 TESTED Beach, N. D., Sept. 7.—Samples of Golden Valley county wheat tested at the state laboratory revealed an av- erage weight of 57 pounds to the bushel and an average protein con- tent of 13.7 per cent, The best speci- men, as far as was concerned, tested 17.3 per cent, and the lowest 10.8 per cent. Importations of tea to the United States for the fiscal year ending in June mounted to more than 93,500,000 are not vain. They | pound: I SENT You HALF oF “He MONEY FROM “THE SETTLEMENT OF MY UNCLES ESTATE Il ENGLAND! ~- THERE WERE DEBTS OF “TWENTY YEARS AGAINST “HE PROPERTY, WHICH WAS SOLD To PAY OFF —HosE LEPT CAME tT ALL STANDING FREE BoYs ME mA MERE S400.~~~ oF WHICH I GAVE You HALF, uw INA MOMEAT OF MENTAL WEAKNESS u~ “7, ALAS! id Cat Come Back? —_. | SONGS (By Alice Judson Peale) To millions of children, music means jazz. The only songs they know are the words of jazz tunes. There is little in these that can e: ercise a happy influence on the grow- ing child. The words are vulgar and senti- ‘mental, the rhythms, however excel | lent they may be for dancing, merely | echo’ or accentuate the quality of the : words. Children who hear little else | gtow up starved for the fine, hearty \tunes and the gay, friendly words which should constitute for them a large part of their musical experi- nee, + Some children are lucky. From the schools they have attended and the background of their own homes they ‘bring a store of pleasant songs. At a certain camp the boys and girls sometimes sing from seven in ‘the evening until it is time to go to and the rich, simple words. They know dozens of old English folk songs, ‘simple ballads, most of them, sung to lquaint and charming melodies. sing each one from beginning to end, whether there are three stanzas or 30, songs seems to you that E ERE Be ~~ AND VECOMING DELIRIOUS APfeR cEtiic tr, L SPEAT FoR SOME ¢ NeW CLOTHES ! ~~ You CERTAINLY DDT SEAD ME “HE MONEY OF YOUR owd WILL ww THE SUGGESTED -HAT MAYBE You WERE IN A may be described as weakness to Bose efit i eG ab 4 eeuws Jeuebwww being bar eis g Es tne PBT ii i i al i i i i E i a 8 ! 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