The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1929, Page 4

4 The Bismarck Tribune F | Dally by carrier. per year .. | jhe became annalist of the boating days. force an outlet in the form of colonics. { | moral force alone for international justice An Independent Newspaper * THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) | Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- | Marck, N. D.. und entered at the postoffice at Bismarcs | @8 second class mai] matter. | George D. Mann Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ... President and Publisher $7.26 +. 7.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck Daily by mail, per year, (in state. outside Bismarck) ...... Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota +» 5.00 +. 600 ~ 230) Weekly by mail, in state. per year ves Weekly by mail. in state, three years for .. 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He is almost the last of the adventurous souls of the river in the 70's to go. Few of the men of the packets that steamed up the Missouri from St. Louis to Omaha | Kansas City, Bismarck and Fort Benton in those now! distant days are left. | Captain Belk served as pilot and captain on 73 of | the Missouri river bos diny to a reckoning made | by a friend several ye: Few men of the river were better known than he. However, he came to the | oiatized gambling is made in the current North Ameri- | friend husband sleeping in the waste- Missouri when its navigation by the old stern-wheelers | already was on the wane, and with the advent of the| railroad he saw his calling decline, then fade out en- tirely. His death rec: ance the river once enjoyed in Northwest tra It was the trans- portation key to this region as far as Fort Benton. Mon-! tana. Many boats out of St. Louis plied its shifting | channel and treacherous current, to get their cargoes into Montana, whence they were sent west by pack | trains to the mining fields and to 2. In the carly s during the 1) war, the Mis- souri steamboats led an adventurous existence. They had to run the double perils of the eam itself, with its uncertain sand! d the menace of hostile Indians | always to be encountered. Tales as thrilling as any | ever embodied in dime novels were associated with the | ficets that coursed the river. All transportation was | conducted by day. At night the risk of running into snags or sandbars, to have the bottom of the boat ripped | or the craft grounded, was too great to risk traveling. | Pilots commanded big pay and had reputations that made them herocs jn the Northwest. They became novable characters. | It was in the days when piloting was tapering off that Captain Belk came up the river from St. Louis. Leaving Alabama, his native state, at the close of the Civil war in which he served in an Alabama Confederate infantry regiment, he ¢ to Bismarck and engaged in piloting. He had ‘learned how to handle a boat on the Alabama river and this knowledge gained him temporary jobs from St. Louis to Kansas City and from there to Omaha, | AS assistant to the pilots of the Sunset and Evening | Star boats. From Omaha he made his way here as a pilet. Thereupon the southerner in him faded out and, he became of the west. He made Bismarck his home and settled down to a career on the river boats. Hun- dreds of trips were made by him from here to Fort Ben- ton and down the river to St. Louis. Then came the day when the last boat retired. The coming of the railroads had killed the dream of a vast river commerce. Bismarck lost its prestige as a port out of which the commercial @istribution of the Northwest was made. The metropolis which it was supposed to become never materialized. Captain Belk retired. He became a familiar figure in ‘the city. Out of the lore of the river he had acquired, He was full ‘of stories of those times, was an authority on the river |, history of the 70's. Three years ago he was elected police magistrate. He held this position with considerable pride. He never , H “yielded any of the morale he had acquired as a pilot and‘ “captain, and he was meticulous in discharging the duties | ‘of his office. An interesting figure has passed from the pages of | focal history, a figure that was not alone linked to Bis- | “Marck’s history but to the story of the entire Northwest. | Hoover's Wide Peace Proposals President Hoover has laid a few more cards on the, table in the international movement for permanent inter- mational peace. i He has countered the blatant spoutings of Mussolini / that by 1935 the population of Italy will be such that | fan outlet for the surplus must be found, implying there- | by that Italy will be willing to war with other nations to | _ And he has countered the militaristic policies of France i 4ntent on throwing up a steel barrier on the eastern | » as though disarmed Germany, peaceful Switzer- and or Italy, admittedly pugnacious under its dictator | it not otherwise, meant to invade. | | ‘The president has laid down a policy as altruistic in) Tealm of diplomacy as were his activities in the; of relief when a portion of Europe was starving | ‘the World war and afterward. } no doubt—and Germany—will hail his; as ly realize the benevolent intentions of the presi-| ‘Something so unselfish is beyond the grasp of the | ry European nationals and the ministers of state. ¥ v it is an epochal conception, this ] that the nations cut down armament and in filet ‘sure to send the funds back again to be turned into! comes eained during the calendar year 1929 and pay- ! as to absorb the huge surpluses of production. x nt for moral defense in contrast to militar- | as a vision and a goal. But the rest of Europe will | cally conference might think, would be in favor of the presi dent's proposal that food ships be treated as thoug hospital ships and in war be granted the freedom of | the seas. This proposal to declare the seas free in wa tn itself may not go down so easily with the other pow but as formulated by the president it might recommend itself to Europe. Real Investments Now Possible ‘The recent speculative collapse of the. securities mar ket was so unrelated to the normal course of industrial business that no disturbance has resulted in that direc- tion from the unsettlement of the market, and the danger from the psychological effect is blowing over as well. One of the healthy effects will be the release of funds ‘led up in speculation, to be utilized in legitimate enter- prises in the home communities from wh! the money was lured by high interest rates in Wall Sirect. There is no knowing what amount of money was so diverted | from home enterprises, but the period of easier money is | sound invesiments, | In fact government officials who study the movements | }of the securities market fecl that real ill effects trom | the collapse of so many stocks will be offset by the fac- tor just cited and three others these betig First a probable reduction in tax rates affecting in- able beginning Marci, 1930 | Second, an increase in the purchasing power of foreign | countries through easier money conditions abroad and | the ability of foreign purchasers to finance thelr trade | with America on a better basis. Third, a natural intensification of foreign trade so; The saving factor about the situation is the fundamen- | tal soundness of prosperity in industry and legitimate | business. There are, of, course. pessimists. but these are mainly those who get their reaction from unfortunate speculative investments in which they were caught by the tremendous drop in the market. The worst result in the opinion of experts is that the shock of the crash in the stock market may curtail juxury purchasing and create temporary hesitancy. even while the market is recovering. There is too much con- | fidence among business men and the people to allow psychological ill effects to harm conditions. | Our Gambling Bill | The amazing statement that $4,000,000.000 changes | hands annually in the United States through commer-’ can Review by Howard McLellan. McLellan itemizes the nation’s gambling bill as fo | lows Baseball pools. $500,000,000; policy games ‘lotteries based on daily totals of bank clearings, etc.), $300,000,000; | racetrack betting. $1,000,000,000; handbook beiting on, races, $800,000,000; cards, dice and similar games of | chance, $1,000,000,000; bucket shops, $500,000.00. | It is impossible for the average man to estimate the | accuracy Of these figures, of course. But if they rep- resent anything like the truth—and McLellan asserts that they are an underestimate, if anything—our gam- | bling problem is a far greater one than most of us have | supposed. | { Editorial Comment | The Public Disgusted «Valley City Times-Record) We are not going to say just where the blame lics in | the highway department or to whom censure should be | pointed in the way the roads have been handled after | that snowstorm—but somebody has a roast coming. To; the notion of about everybody you see it is a most-in- efficient way of handling the matter. The public is paying 3c per gallon for having the roads kept open for traffic yet here we are nearly a week after | the storm and the roads between here and Jamestown | and scme miles further on west of Jamestown we find | the roads almost impassable through lack of the right | kind of service through the highway department. | Any person who has lived in North Dakota many years, knows that we may expect a heavy snowstorm any time in October and that preparations for such an emergency | | should have been made, as it was none of the equipment : was here or any place else where it could be manipulated, | and as @ consequence hundreds of motorists were stalled on the roads, and in the towns through lack of proper | attentton by the department. Up to yesterday after- | noon autos were being pulled out of the ditch and the | road between here and Sanborn and Jamestown was in a bad condition. Other counties where they had more snow than we had have cleared their roads several days ago but Barnes and Stutsman counties are lagging be- | hind. Some years we do not have snow until away up to January. while at other times we get it early and this | seems to be the early year. | There is some sort of pep needed in the departmen: | where the blame lies to reorganize to get a body of | men who can give service, when service is needed. If, the equipment could have been put on the roads Thurs- | day night after it quit snowing the roads would have | been opened and the motorists saved a lot of annoyance i and expense. Shake up the dry bones in the depart- | ment and let us get something for our money. i Between here and Rogers it is a fright. while north} after you cross the line Griggs county has the road open. | y? Better management. { Tying up the roads in this manner is disastrous to the towns and cities and causes heavy losses to the business | men who are paying big taxes for the privilege of doing business only to see that business dissipated by lack of | method in the highway department. | Keeping the Roads Open (Devils Lake Daily Journal) } North Dakota's greatest economic asset. after a fashion | is its highway system. Thousands of dollars are spent every year to build highways and maintain them. Out! in this state of “magnificent distances” roads that are: negotiable are highly important to the common welfare. | We might not consider this in the light of business alone. We are in the automobile age. There is hardly a; person living outside a centre of population but has automobile. He has it because he wants to go pla when he so wills. He might want to drive to a city a shopping expedition. Or he might want to go to city to attend the theatre. a meeting or merely to a social visit. {| Thus, tt might appear good roads are all important; links in our entire economic and social structure. that reason, we presume, the state, federal and the county spend thousands of dollars every build roads and to maintain them—but in the months, or on months when snow does not Snow has closed many of the highways leading into | Devils Lake unusually early this year. unfortunate in this respect. has a that is constantly isolated because of ways. And unfort open these roads should not be summer. g B i it Bho ot Are i ect i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, EMBER 18, -1929 OF YouRS AN’ Tit AN’ BAG A COUPLE OF “THiS House -o WTO fae TL mMietT Be GONE A FEW DAYS, BuT + TLL come Home BOWLEGGED UNDER —TH’ LOAD oF TEAL AN” MALLARD! WEIGHT OF A ° BARBS Modern furniture may be all right. | but there's always the danger of! basket. eee George Bernatd Shaw says that if the young people are not better than | the old, he doesn't know what's go- | 80 years CHAPIER I bod \ dol) my tad, if {t's work: you're wanting, Lieut. Strawn here ts the man to see that you get your fill of it.” said Police Com missioner O'Brien, bis blue eyes twinkling at the tall young man who sat across the desk from tim “Jawo—" he turned slightly in his swivel chair and drooped a sandy lashed lid tm @ significant wink— “this young escalawag happens, by the grace of God an‘ a sister of mine —rest ber soul! to be my nephew. Do you think that the tax Dayers will rise ip their wrath and defeat me at the next election if A give bim @ fob under you on you're to kick him out if he's no Sood as a sleuth. But !f he's bait 8 good at finding out what a fellow would give bis right arm not to have found out as his mother was + + + Why, Nora, ble her heart. knew when | was in love with a! girl before 1 bad tumbled to tt myself—" } “And what might bis name be, Commissioner? Jobo Strawn, licu- tenant of the Hamilton homicide squad. interrupted, bis gray eyes | Barrowing speculatively upon the | smiling young man who had risen and was holding out a band. “It might be O'Halloran, if that willful sister of mine hadn't lost her beart to a Scotchman by the name of Dundee,” O'Brien chuckled. “Irish he is, Jawn, as you can see by the black bair and the blue eyes | of bim, but Scotch he is, too. by the name of his father pinned on him. Jimmie Dundee his name ts, Jawa, or, if you're wanting his alias, you might write him down ta your books a3 ‘Bonnie’ Dundee. A sorry name for a siz-footer like Jimmie here, but Bonnie be's been since a sentimental !ass he lost his heart to ip high school found a, boem called ‘Bonnie Dundee’ and made bim a present of the nick-' game. So ‘Bonnie’ he is, and ‘Bon. | be till re dies, 1 suppose. bat do you think, Jawa’ look the handicap) boy @ trial at the “Anything you say goes. Com missioner,” Strawn agreed gradg-, ingly, at last taking the firm young | band that was still thrust toward him. “Of course. be'll bave to take the regular examinations—~ | parties, but on the whole. my boy, “Of course!” flashed a wide, disarming smile the dour man who was to ve bis! chief. “And Yhanks much. Lieut | ‘Strawn. | hope you'll forget. after ‘Pull, is itt bis uncle inter rupted. “I'd Bave you know, iad. that {'ve got the interest of Hi Uton at heart, not yours! It half this Inspector Jessup of Scotiand Yard says about you is true, Strawn Is going to he glad to have you Just look at this Jawa!” And O'Brien drew an official-looking letter from a desk drawer end passed it to the Lad Neutenast. ¢oF EMM.” Strawa remarked non- ae aptly. as be read od or paragraphs. you've worked im Scotland Yard. have you, Dundee?” — _“Vea—siz, monthe, OUR BOARDING HOUSE U~ SAN , RUBBER FACE, LET ME BORRY “THAT SHoTouN DUCKS FoR TH’ BRIDGEWOoRK 1 ©) inz to happen to the world. That That may be true for the men folks, {) must_have bee: @ | for George to | know something. | back they are not ¢ * BAvendi 1.1929 by NEA the homicide equad? Of course. | Bonnie Dundee they give us a pretty dull time of a bit. that I worked pull to get this joo—* | By Ahern: Z WHAT « LET You BORROW MY HIGHLY PRIZED SHoTauss 2 Go ours] ~ dMr ~wWpeeD I Wor! DOZEN 72] ~ THINK CT Wourp DESECRATE THAT MAGNIFICENT FOWLING Piece WW -THE HANDS OF A CLUMSY Novice 2? ~-~ EGAD, THAT GUA OF MINE 1S THE STRADIVARIUS OF FIRE- ARMS! ~~ BESIDES, YoU COULDN'T to be fat. This ts fortunate, as it ts ~ HiT THE STUFFED GAME IN YY peigr ‘treet to gain than to A TAXIDERMISTS SHOP? lose weight. The difficulty of the underweights is that no matter how ‘hard they have tried and are still trying to gain a few more pounds, the adiposity always seems to elude them. Rarely are they able to gain, and if they do, they lose soon again, where- upon they often become discouraged and quit trying. Gaining is not merely a problem of eating more food unless, of course, | one has been through a definite food | famine or starving period, Malnutri- tion may often occur, even though one is eating heartily, by not includ- ing the right foods. The normal person has a pleasing amount of flesh over the bony frame. ' The most attractive contour is that of nicely developed muscle covered with old Mother Nature's cleverly laid thin layer of fat. Exercises do not spoil the contours, as it is well known that most dancers have very shapely legs. since the exercises put on a natural curve along the calf and thigh and take off offensive fat by increasing the circulation. There are many factors responsible for a perfect body weight. One must ' have a wholesome, nutritious diet, the {right amount of exercises, fresh air, sleep, water, and a contented or hap- py mental condition. Any of these may prove to be the key that unlocks ~| the golden chest yielding the correct amount of weight. One should take enough of the body | building exercises, the kind that makes the heart pump the blood SNAP . tail called fresh air. In other words, to gain weight one should indulge in the sort of exercises one gloried in as a child—exercises that make you feel like shouting and laughing, all in- FILLING THE HOLLOWS There are probably more people with a natural inclination to be skin- ny than there are with a tendency — toxicated with the marvelous well be- ing that surges over you from top to toe. There are thousands of people who find out that they only gain when they exercise and play in the open air. This is the reason why many people gain during the sum- mer vacation, when they have been cut in the great open spaces filling up their lungs with fresh air. Most city dwellers are oxyger. starved from one year's end to tic other. The blood is never properly or efficiently aerated. As far as they can see over their heads they gaze into a perfect ocean of fresh air, and yet they are literally hungry for lack of it. Without the air in their lungs their bodies fail to use and oxidize the food they e Articles on similar subjects whicl I have prepared for free distribution: Please send 2 cent stamp for each ar- ticle you desire. This is to partially Pay for preparation and postage. Wrinkles and Facial Contours— ; From Double Chins to Wrinkled Necks ——; 2 on Gaining Weight —; Youthful Glands ——; After Fort: a A\ A bitter admission ke—that he didn’t but grandma just started being kit- tenish at that age. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Rubber + > (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) | around in an enthusiastic manner, ’ Hects : President Hoover test of | strengthening the abdominal muscles, | , eer ites neler Negltthe 3 is hali a __A cocoanut shell always has a soft; and stretching the muscles along the| .o.. ar. injurious to sight ed 3 ears } them spot at one end of its shell. because | sides and down the back which you ing? heels?” Answer: Metal heel and toe pro- tectors would have no effect on the sight or hearing. Rubber heels are useful because they absorb some of the jar of the walking. Children’s Diet Question: H. G, W. asks: “Should not cheese and raw carrots and other raw foods be fed children three years of age?” Answer: Children of three years can be fed any foods suitable for adults. The foods you have men- tioned may often be used to advant- age when the child is only two years old, but the proportions and combin- ations of foods must be carciully watched. Send for my special article on “Feeding Baby after Weaning.” Lump in Throat Question: Mrs. L. W. writes: “My trouble is constriction of the esopha- gus. I had this trouble a year ago and this time it came on with a slight hoarseness and I always have that lump or fullness in my-throat, and the sensation makes me frantic. Have H : been examined by several doctors and { . none find anything wrong with ‘ ‘ throat or tonsils, no adenoids, etc.” Answer: The constriction of your esophagus probably remains becausc of some local irritation, as you sug- gested it came on with a slight hoarseness. The best thing to do would be to follow the dieting re- . gimen similar to that used in Bronchi- j tis, which I will be glad to send you. You must endeavor to build up your nervous system as much as possible by sleeping at least eight hours a night and avoiding needless mental strains and emotional excitement. eee treatments may also be Iptul. (Copyright, 1929, by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) |” Our Yesterdays | _ ° this is the provision made by nature Do you recommend rubber to allow the embryo of the future eee push its way out of the hard | shell. had forgotten were on the job. Such exercises stimulate the muscles of respiration so that you breathe in large quantities of the oxygen cock- od neighbors. * * of life is still fixed at statistician, ‘The sp Service, Inc. FORTY YEARS AGO Colonel Webb and family of Pem- bina county passed through the cits yesterday on their way to Spokanc Falls, Wash. The colonel will be re- membered as one of the members of “Another nut,” he muttered, and tossed the letler across the desk to Strawn. in a very minor capacity. I was under Inspector Jessup ip the De- partment of Records. 1 did not actually go out on cases, but 1 did Manage to learn something of British police methods.” across the desk to Strawn. “Poor;! thought then you were @ mighty old lady~bored—trying to kick up/ sensible man. a little excitement,” he added to/ Well, Mr. Commissioner, 1 .was undee, by way of explanation. ' glad you were re-elected, although ve get hundreds of nut letters in it couldn't get out to vote for you. the course of @ year. Some of the / because | haven't been able to walk Strawn thawed visibly. “College, writers are plain crazy, some try-|down a flight of stairs for more I suppose?” he grunted. ing to cause trouble for their pri-| than two years. 1 weigh over 300 “I'm afraid so. But as I spent, vate enemies, some out to kid the| pounds, and I have what the doc. most of my time reading everything Slee rf tors call fatty degeneration of the on criminology that I could lay my! “And which kind fs this?” Bon- | heart. | Judge Rose, - hands on, I don't think I'm over-:nie Dundee asked interestedly. But now ! want to remind you ot iar pte to sit Shae burdened with an education, sir.” | “The commonest of all.” O'Brien | what you said in those election | Morte Dakota, did his tast business as Hmm! A story-book detective,” , chuckled, shaking bis head of frost: | speeches, and @ judge in Bismarck yesterday. Lieut. Strawn commented, but there/touched red hair at his eager al was a glint of not unkindly humer |uephew. “Nothing here to interest|1I do know for certain that my 1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO in his gray eyes. “I'm afraid you're & rising young Sherlock Holmes.|{s in danger. {t's because of my William Couch of the Bismarck going to be disappointed in Hamil- Just ap old lady who's got a bug) money, though | haven't got as ‘Steam laundry is building a handsome ton as a crime center, Dundee. Of: im her .beah that all her fellow-|much as those who would like to tesidence on Seventh street. hand. 1 can’t recall a single case boarders are plotting to kill her.| get it, by fair means or foul, think auc aees where a rich old mao was found What's that high-falutin® name you)! have. Everything | have in the W. F. Cushing is back from a trip dead in his library, a carved dagger | college boys have for it?” world is in my room, on the second north in the interests of the Lquit- in bis heart, and doors and win-| “Persecution complex.” Bonnte| Soor of the Rhodes House, able company. dows barred. And so far as 1 know, | grinned. “Pardon—wmay 3 see the|® boardi beara Mr. and Mrs. Tatloy, John Peter- son. John Philbrick, Walter Scliens and Charley Bentley leave this after- there's not a single house in alt’ letter?” noon for St. Louis to visit the exhibi- tion. W. E. Falconer left yesterday for {his new home in Coeur D’ Alene, j Basho. i |_ Dr. W. J. Kesler and daughter. | Scranton, Pa., stopped here for a visit ;With Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grambs. They are on their way to Seattle. Hamilton with a secret passage—"| Strawn, who bad made no com- O'Brien chuckled. “You're right, ment on the letter as he read it. Jawn. I'm ashamed of our murder. | beyond a disgusted snort, passed ers. Not an ounce of originality in| the sheets to the young man. ve many enemies during the five I've lived here, and all because the money. a a jailful of ‘em! Just old-fashioned | Dundee’s bright blue eyes trav-| There's no use writing me . rae Killers, the lot af ‘em—sbooting of led swiftly down the frst page of |ter, telling me to put me money io exiuige and dirs. Gage left this aft- 32's, carving thelr wives or eweet- | small, precise handwriting in green |a bank. so 1 won't be murdered for \spend the winter. share they: mil jbearts with raz -s or butcher | {ak; then bis audience of two saw use to put Bo . knives. Sometimes the ladies serve | bim frown, as he began to reread my bad beart arsenic sandwiches at their tea the sheet. ‘going to the —____________+., \ O’Brien winked at Strawn. and when | | LITTLE JOE | the police Meutenant returned the| needed 4 | it, leaving 80, many clues tying; Dleasantry with great solemnity. around that’ sometimes Jawa; ise | Strawn here is almost ashamed to Bt Dundee’s attention was con- jtake the taxpayers’ mone7—" centrated on the letter: “Excuse me, Mr. O'Brien,” a) girl's voice spoke from the dcocr- bia ges gy oo way, “but here's a special delivery June 29, 1929 jletter for you, marked ‘Personal’.”) 11:6 commissi Patrick C. | “Eh?. .. Ob, all right... No} Q:Brien, Lyou needn't wait. Miss Crane,’ the | city Hall, % "police commissioner said rather! tamilton. | Pointedly, as be saw bis secretary's | near Sir: jeves lingering upom the bandsome | 1 rea4 one of your specches Ip pee, of bis nephew. ithe paper when you. were running } As the girl—not @ very preity ‘for reelection. You sald something one; but striving by make-up srt like this: “My alm. ae police com- to appear ‘so—left the room. the missioner of Hamilton, nas deen | police commalentonte. sit the em | and ill be to decrease crime by |setope, drew out three sheets of ‘sound and logical methods of pre jebeap. dlue-iined, tablet paper, sad | vention. 1m my opinion, crime pre-| Bet to let on to anyone. not even to begin to read. [vention ts of even greater tmpor | Mrs. Rhodes, my landlady, that he "Another nut.” he muttered as tance then cslme detection.” There is @ detective. B Bn. tossed the letter | was 8 lot te It, ef course, but (To Be Continued) HEN YOu BREAK ; Respectfully yours, - GIRS.) EMMA HOGARTR. P. 8.—Please tell your detective ~ ese t - rt hte