The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1929, Page 4

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CHICAGO NEW YORK ity Sewspaper) BOSTON (Official City, State and Co! Passing the Buck on Laws It begins to look as if the sacred duty of law observance 4s one of those things that no ly is glad to en- dorse but that few people are w practice. The subject is a ticklish or vance” is usually just a left-handed ing exclusively about prohibition. But the questicn arises in connection with many other laws. It did before we had prohibition, and it will continue to do so for many years; and there is more loose thinking and self-deception connected with it than with any other phase of national life. Consider, for instance, the matter of horse racing In the state of Ohio you can always get a round of ap- plause by demanding the strict enforcement of existing Jaws. Ohio is a law-and-order state, Its citizens would grow pale if anyone suggested that they nullify any of their laws. Now there are a number of race tracks in Ohio. in Ohio, as in most other states, there are against gambling. The state laws permit horse racing, just as they permit baseball and golf; but they very plain- ly forbid any betting on them. Everybody who knows anything about horse racing knows that no track can operate for a weck without bet- ting. The “percentage” from the betting machines ts what gives the track its profit. If there is no betting, there is no racing. That holds good everywhere, always. Yet, despite Ohio's strict plenty of horse ne Here's the w ly works. ‘The tracks are located in small suburban towns near the big citics. One of them announces a three-weeks mecting. The mayor of the viliage remarks that it isn’t his job to stop racing; that's up to the sheriff. The sher- iff says that he doesn’t know anything about it; that he has received no complaints, and that he can’t enter The village to make arrests unless the mayor calls on him ig to observe in daily And i laws for heip. State officials sometimes say that the ea matter is up to the local authorities. So, with everybody passing the buck, the race meeting is held, a lot of moncy is bet quite openly. and everybody is happy—except, maybe, the families of the lucklecs wage-edrners who have lost more money than they could | sfford. To be sure, the tracks don't have everything way. If there are tco many mectings in one place, busi- ness suffers—and the business men speak to the sheriff. and the law gets enforced feautifully. But where the track owners are “reasonable"—you can take that any | Way you want—thkey aren't interfered with. The problem of law enforcement includes lots of laws besices the Volstead act. It's pretiy nearly time we stopped kidding ourselves about it and modified some of those other laws that we don't reaily intend to enforce. Business and Sentiment According to a popular notion “there is no sentiment in business” because, like oil and water, sentiment and busi- ness will not mix. But there is, nevertheless a great deal of sentiment in business. You may recognize the truth of this by observing people's reactions to news of busi- ness failures. Genuine sympathy is felt for the honest man com- felled to go into bankruptcy. Such a one has friends eager to help him out of his trouble. Often they extend his credit, accept sctilements that Icave him in a position to make a fresh start and contribute as they can toward the success of the new start. Knowing him to be honest, his equally honest fellows recognize him as an asset to ‘the business world. There is always real rejoicing at the “come back” of an honest man and not merely because his triumphing over adversity means that he will pay off old scores, ‘There is nothing more pathetic than an honest busi- ness failure. On the other hand, what is more despicable than a failure brought about by dishonest practices and Jeaving a train of despoiled victims with confidence in their fellows shattered? This sort of failure does more harm than can be calculated from any statement of loss- @s sustained by those who put trust in the untrustworthy. It hurts honest people. For public protection there should be no mercy extended to those who make dishonest The Tie That Binds Historical progress is fittingly climaxed in the formal _ Fiver between the North Dakota city of Grand Forks and its Minnesota suburb of East Grand Forks. It is one of ‘the big events of present-day material development in ‘the state. It belongs to an cra of transportation that is '; the most marvelous in the history of mankind, when gutomobile and airplane have supplanted the | of the ox cart and the Red river breeds who plied latter. It is part of the vast network of road build- which permits the pecple of the nation to exercise first.” It is @ symbol of the age, of the nation, of the n of the day. as a tie between two neighboring states it ex- os the political fraternity of the American system federation. Fittingly it has been sct aside ass me- porial, who was the sole citizen of not so long ago in the flux of was caught up by'the old edifics supplan:s. Once, : follow 5 against betting, Ohio has | heir own | [thelr restless craving for travel and to “sce America | | the heels ef the oxen and the old cart, Soon came the | series of modern vehicles, and along with them the era of the “iron horse,” then the automobile. Now the na- Uon is in the whirl of that tremendous tide of travel by | nd the structure dedicated today by the governors nd officials of two states and two municipalities is going to be a bury facility in rolling along the never-ceasing | queue of automobiles networking the land, It wiil have a useful career before it in its daily be a bond draw- | loser together the two commonwealths which its stecl social and commeycial Suggests Goals - nald B. MacMillan, slidin> throug le schooner in search of the things z ever have, stumbled on to one of the nz diecoveries of his entire trip the other 2 Count MacMillan’s party found traces of one of the carl- | i expeditions in histo: he expedition com- | manded by Sir M Frobisher, which sailed from Lon- | seeking the fabulous Nerihwest and some equally fabulous gold m. a little hillside, MacMillan found the foundetion | of the house which Frobisher’s men erceted. | the for! shaft and debris of the mine had dug For more than 330 years those relics had stood neg- lected, monuments to the energy and daring of an Eliza- bethan explorer and his group of nameless herocs. Frobisher failed in both objects of his great quest. | He cid not find the great Northwest Passage, which he i thought would provide British navigators with a safe shert cut to China. Indeed, no one found it until Am sen, more than three centuries later, pushed a sailing | vessel through it, taking three years for the job. Blocked with ice, the long-sought passage might just as well not | Texist at all, | And Frobisher's hunt for gold Hie did unearth a great quantity of beautiful yellow metal, in his camp there on Countess of Warwick sound; | and a great many tons of this were gleefully taken back to London in Frobisher’s creaky ships. But the old sca dog was unlucky, The metal turned out to b>, not gold, but iron pyrites—the “fool's gold” that has disappointed so many fortune-hunters. + | ‘Thus Frobisher abandoned his Arctic voyages. and the j | relies of his camp lay deserted for 350 years—until Mac- | Millan came along to turn them up and reawaken our in- | terest in tough, determined old Sir Martin. | Yet old Sir Martin, and the hard-fisted sailor men who | | went with him, don't need any of our sympathy—not even at this late date. For, like all Arctic explorers, they | ‘found what they went efter, even if the Northwest Pass- | age and the gleaming gold mines did elude them. What were they after? Well, how is a stay-at-home to say? Perhaps Commander MacMillan could tell us, or Byrd, or Dr. Nansen; and if the ghost of Roald Amund- } {sen could come back from north of Spitzbergen, it, too, | could tell us, Yet perhaps all they could give us, after all, would be a few lines from an old poem— equally unluck They sit at home and they dream and dally, Raking the embers of long-dead years— But ye go down to the haunted Valle; Light-hearted pioneers, They have forgotten they ever were young, They hear your songs as an unknown tongue .. . But the flame of God through your spirit stirs, Adventu: -—Oh, Adventurers! A Bit of Red Tape Probebly no government would be complete without red | tape. Just the same, the rules and regulations that re- | ict government departments are sometimes highly puzzling. The Navy department would like to preserve Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, but it can't afford the money. Private citizens will have to raise the funds. Yet, th other day, when a rich casterner offered to donate the entire sum to the Navy department, so that the old cruis- jcr could be kept up forever without a cent of expense to | | the government, the offer had to be rejected. | Presumably the navy couldn't have accepted without | | violating some legal restriction or other. But the inci- cent seems to us to reveal red tape at its worst. Now when you read that she raised her eyebrows, you | ; don’t know whether it means an expression of surprise or a bit of pencil work. The reason the old hioned girl didn’t call her beau “daddy” was because he wasn’t old cnough to be her daddy. Breath of Life by Machine (Toledo Blade) At the instigation of New York gas companies, a scien- tist has developed an electrically-driven automatic arti- | ficial respiration machine. Commenting upon its success- ful operation, the New York Sun says that for 38 hours doctors and policemen worked over a Brooklyn man who had tried to kill himself by inhaling gas. By pumping oxygen into his lungs and by modifying his blood to over- come possible deleterious effects of the great quantity of oxygen used, they saved his life. The patient, who thought he wanted to die, was at first resentful, then thankful. The manual labor of cperation of the old-fashioned pulmotor and the interruptions caused by change of oper- | ators are eliminated by the new artificial respiration de- ice. The patient is placed in a metal cylinder from which his head protrudes through an opening made air- tight without constricting the neck dangerously. Air is then forced into the cylinder, compressing and expand- ing the lungs at normal rate. Oxygen can be used if necessary for resuscitation of sufferers from asphyxiation, clectric shock or submersion. Are Radio Programs Getting Lopsided? (Springfield Republican) John Erskine, author, musical amateur and former pro- fessor, tells us that he “has not the slightest doubt that \ the radio is doing more to foster a love for music in the average American than anything else that has occurred in the art.” ction of service, | — the most delicious nasturtium | dipped in mayonaise, was inserted be- | tween. | In Morocco, one can find a native ‘porridge that is flavored with jelly |made from pomegranate flowers, and Here's a little romance of Man- |delicacy. The natives of the north hattan, with a modern flavor. In Greenwich Village, the rear apart- ments on West Ninth street face the | ter and sugar; lotus jelly is another of rear apartments of those on West Tenth, with only the space of a gar- den between. : A girl from California took what money she had and came to New York determined to be a writer. She leased a rear apartment on Ninth street, set up her typewriter by the window, and began grinding out | copy. Now, it so happened that a young man from Wisconsin had come to the iiy, similarly inspired, and he took an apartment on the rear of West Tenth street, placed his small port- able on the desk near the window, and began writing the plays he thinks Broadway is so in need of. Each day, the writers started to their desks and began their staccato clicking about the same hour. They | couldn't help seeing each other, and finally with the camaraderie of two! persons engaged in the same profes- sion, they would occasionally wave at | each other across the court. But neither of them knew who the other j . or made any effort to find out. This went on for about a year. Then at a literary tea, Wisconsin met California. Wisconsin was delighted to find that California was muci | prettier at close range, delighted to | find that California admired the shape of Wisconsin's head and the smart ideas he could propound. In a very short time the two went down to the municipal building and took out a marriage license. Then they moved the typewriters into an apartment on Fifth Avenue, just mid- | way between Ninth and Tenth streets | —and they have been writing happily together ever since. ** * FLORAL COOKERY Perhaps some day. when we get tired of vegetable plates. American | cooks will experiment with cooking flowers. At a certain Italian res- taurant, noted for its excellent food, they serve their delicious zuccini, an Italian squash, in a most unique man- ner—the flowers, as well as the sec- tions of squash are dipped in batter and fried, and make excellent eating. I remember a woman who used to sandwiches—very slim slices of bread ere buttered, and a nasturtium, rose leaf jelly is a famous Egyptian of India make a cake from the flow-; jers of a wild shrub, mixed with but- their delicacies. We've run across candied violets awd candied rose leaves as confections. It offers an interesting field for ex- periment. * * * MAKE A HAT! The woman who has a knack for making hats, is coming into her own again, for the new hats are not just plain felts, but are marvelously man- hats. Once again they are individual ; rather than conventionalized. The same might be said of dresses and blouses—the newest ones are the sort that seem to have been turned out by dressmakers rather than tailors. Those fortunate women who are clever with THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1929 out the congressional credentials com- mittees. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Talks ZR, &%, Parents TOO MUCH CONSCIENCE (By Alice Judson Peale) Nothing is harder than to be the child of a father and mother who take their parental obligations with a ipulated turbans, and “dressmaker” | ¢, a her child through entirely too hours of the day. Bi the needle, as it used to be called, are about to have their day again. if BARBS 1 We have seen quite a few lady tours j ists wearing khaki breeches during the summer but haven't noticed any of them changing a tire. ** * The schools are getting back into full swing again. Now the young People will have to begin worrying all over again over how much they can't wear. ee * Ruth Elder says that since she is Mrs. Walter Camp, Jr., she wants us all to forget there ever was a Ruth Elder. Well, we've forgotten Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth, Anna Held and a few others and maybe to be trained as spotters for the pro- hibition department. x * * An electrical beans dutomatically and those that are imperfect has perfected. Just the thing OUR BOARDING HOUSE WHO CALLED UPON Z Z Z g g g g A B EGAD M'DEAR, [ HAVE HAD A MOST ANNOYING EXPERIENCE WITH A DISTANT RELATIVE INSISTED THAT HE Be GIVEN A SHARE OF “THE SMALL SUM LEPT ME BY MY UNCLE RUFUS ! Me, ap * |2/~ NERVE KNow ~~~ THE ~BOUNDER IS A REMOTE MEMBER oF “THe HOOPLE FAMILY “AND HE SAYS He WILL CALL AGAIN To CLAIM PART OF He a-THeRE's No DOUBT ABT Hina BEWo A Home w awe He HAS THE FAMILY fame WELL, WHEN We CALLS, Jusr LET me _~ Tie see MAT HE Gets A WHACK oF Many of the American homes drinking orgies, to think it is his As Thomas Dekker said in 1604, “To drink healths is to drink sickness.” Physicians are divided on the ques- tion of whether or not a moderate fl whbbheeun ees A AnteRsaRy QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS on Neck Question: M.G. G. writes—“I have & lump on the right side of my neck about the size of a pecan that has ‘been there for over four years. Has Answer: The lump is probably a fatty tumor and will cause no harm 5 8 g aii: i if the vege- ly cooked. However, that the use of bi- is particularly in- | answer the following ques- tions in your column. 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