The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 4

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CHICAGO NEW YORK Going Back to the River Rivers and harbors legi mainly in the form of approp: to the fore the new creed of repeats on a greater scale the activities of the | and 50's for canals and railroads, Then the program of transportation improvement agitated mainly the tes. Now through President Hoover's pronouncement for ¢: pansion of internal waterway extension, the program ts of a national character. It is as though the present agitation were repetition by cycle of that earlier eagerness to advance beyond the stage coach and the Conestoga wagon, the ox-cart and the prairie schooner. The cast-off means of other days fhas been discovered to possess still further usefulness. It is being enlisted in service again because a national Necessity in transportation seems to have arisen and new ‘adaptations of inland navigation make possible the res- toration of the river boats, not the old packcis, how- ever, but the gasoline tows. Colonel Frayne Baker, addressing the Rotary club | ‘week, said the cargoes of the old Missouri river boats used to cost $15,000 in freight charges per thousand tons when brought up here from St. Louis. That was too costly to withstand the competition of the railroads, anc the boats were driven out of the business. The new barge system has solved some of the problems of cost, and freight movement by water is no longer prohibitively expensive. Rail shipment of farm products has in the meantime mounted so in cost that the grain growers and shippers of the Northwest are more and more convinced that the problem demands restoration of water traffic. ‘With the completion of the Ohio river nine-foot chan- nel, now operating so successfi the projects dealing with the Mississippi and the Missouri come to the fore. ‘The rivers and harbors appropriation bi!l carries $10,- 050,000 for improving the Missouri north from St. Louis in the next two years. This is but @ beginning on the Big Muddy. Under the Hoover plan it is plain that subsequent bills are likely to provide for an extension of the work so fat ‘authorized. There is hope that the deepening and revetting may extend to Pierre and then to Bismarck. The rumblings of this hope are being heard here alrca in the growing opposition to diverting the waters of the Missouri at Garrison and turning a portion of the flow into the Sheyenne river and Devil's Lake. The Associa- tion of Commerce here has gone on record against this diversion. The slogan is “Keep what you've got.” A very interesting and comprehensive hist of Amer- ica could be written simply by teiling the history of the nation’s rivers. In each case the story is something like | through of the story of the Ohio. First a thi oats; then a great flood of sicamships, bearing settlers and manufactured goods and taking out foodstuffs, lum- ber, and other raw materials; and then, with the com- ing of the railroads and the automobiles, a long decline Sometimes bringing the absolute death of river traffic. Our railroads now are more efficient than ever before. Motor trucks are carrying a constantly-greater total of freight. Airplanes are providing a new form of speedy “transport. Yet—the rivers are coming back. ! _ This is a return—tiguratively, at leasi—to the condi- Aions of a century ago; yet it also indicates the begin- ‘ning of a new epoch in our history. “In the old days the rivers became highways because they were cheap and convenient. When better means of transportation were effected the rivers were in large part ‘abandoned. Who wanted to travel or ship his goods by ‘@ wheezy old packet when a railroad train would make the trip in s quarter of the time But now we have a new condition. We have filled _up the country—come of age, so to speak. We have filled "things up 80 thoroughly that it is becoming necessary for us to use every form of transportation available. Re- turning to the rivers to ship our freight does not mean the railroads will suffer; it simply means that there enough freight to be moved to make it worth our means at hand in the moving of it— feilroad, auto trucks, airplanes, steamers and bargcs. to life of the Ohio, the Mississippi and “the Missouri is highly significant. A new era is begin- ming. It is paralleling the first stages of the era that ended—yet, at the same time, it is vastly different. E i i j ‘he progress of the American people. Salvation Army Hard Pressed * Conditions imposing a great handicap on the relief «President and Publisher | led to the use | has And that difference represents an enormous advance in THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE many poor families at Christ- | . it and the Red Cross volunteering to look after | the needs of 36. Meanwhile the kettle receipts are com- | ing in slowly end the relief work promises to be cramped. | Last year the organization in its family relief work sup- | plicd 297 Christmas dinners, 504 toys of good quality land Ww manship, 103 loaves of bread and other baked ex mi ress¢s and bedding and eight pieces of furniture, fur- ied groceries to 85 families and bought 3,000 pounds cozl for distribution. In corps relief it supplied 642 meals at local restaurants, 615 free lodgings, using two double beds and two single camp cots, gave out 447 gare ments and 132 pairs of shoes and aided 1,829 transients and 30 local persons in transportation the need of which was first carefully investigated. onally conducted 20 funerals. estimated value of family relief was $948.14,. of ‘o transients and others, $750.80. nts for work, supplicd 76 men and en with jobs. It is plain to see what a necessary work in relief the | Army is conducting. To it fall all the distasteful cases the “Let George do it” instances, It should not be met WR indifference and neglect at any time, especially at | this season of both privation and joy, as the holidays are. U.S. Sets Peace Pace When the richest and most powerful nation in the ation that could build the largest army and s if it chose to do so, voluntarily docs ‘ything within its power to relieve the civilized world | of the burden of preparedness and war, it becomes ap- | parent that cress is being made in the direction of permanent world peace and a new brotherhood of man. ‘On this question of limitation of arms and world amity the Hoover administration cannot be charged with a do- nothing policy. It has already shown a willingness to 30 more than half way to bring about an international relationship which undoubtedly would benefit other powers more than it possibly could the United States. America’s motives are unselfish. The first evidence of the new aggressiveness at Wash- ington came when Hugh 8. Gibson made an important concession at the Geneva preparatory conference on disarmament. The second came when discussion turned to the draft of a treaty on limitation of arms. Both times almost certain deadlock was avoided by the eager- | ness of the American representatives to give almost any- thing and everything rather than see everything lost. Then came the Kellogg peace pact and the Hoover- MacDonald decision to hold another naval limitation conference, that set for January 20 at London. | | | | | | other nation that can claim as much? Harvest of Auto Skids Scarcely a day passes without newspaper notice of automobile skids with serious or tragic consequences. This is the harvest time of year for that sort of acet- | dent. That there should not be more such accidents is | no more surprising than that there should be as many. Motorists ought to know the hazards of winter driving | and govern themselves accordingly. The skid is 2; treacherous risk of the winter road. It is invariably un- | expected and once started the driver is powerless. } Nothing but extreme caution can be used against a | slippery road. The driver who races over a slippery | surface is a superlative fool. All science has done for | brakes and all that highway service has done for rough- | ing ice will not overeome recklessness on the part of the | driver. The safety of winter driving is up to the driver | more than anything else. ‘: ‘ 1 Some people wonder why they don't get on when they , are merely trying to get by. i | Editorial) Comment Resisting the Corn Borer (St. Paul Dispatch) The corn borer which has been ravaging the fielde of America as far west as the borders of Michigan and Mlinois is to be stopped by making corn unpalatable to it. A. R. Marsdon, superintendent of the state experi-! ment station at Munroe, Michigan, has just announced | the development of a new strain of corn which the borer will not touch. The new corn was planted in alternate rows with existing varieties. The insect preferred the old and left the new strain decidedly alone. The experiments which covered a period of three years seem to have been based on cross-l of standard American varicties with what is called “maize a@ corn from South America. | Spanish and means “bitter.” | the borer has a sweet tooth and evidently has countered | by creating a corn whoce stalk and cob taste like worm- | i wocd but whose kernels are satisfactory for human and animal consumption. As a marketable quantity of the new corn will not bs available for five years, the fight against the weciward trek of the corn borer to continue for some time on the old lines. Invention and Salesmanship (Minneapolis Journal) Nicolai Tesla complains that Edison is getting all of the credit, he none, for the instrumentality of electric light and power. The Edison lamp, says Tesla, was well known and even patented years before Edison adapted it. | Moreover, says this complainant, the Edison scheme of lighting was “subject to fatal limitations and has been almost wholly displaced by a more practical and effi- ee gheceh vasen on the Tesla magnetic field. Hence reg: system as more it than the | incandescent lamp. haoen Edison's work, says Tesla, deserves unlimited praise as it applies to his vigorous » “but all thar; he did was wroucht in known and passing forms.” It was, he remarks, “more the performance of an extra- ordinarily energstic and horse-sensed pioneer than that | of an inyentor.” All of Tesla’s animadversions may be true. But he overlooks one other quality. Edison has sold his output, | where it had not before been on the market. He is! an illustration of the value of well considered promotion based on self confidence and evoking Edison sold his stuff. A Limit to Tall Buildings pletion for a new “tallest 7 bein the words Picking mach children used to have for their par- ents 50 years ago is not in evidence | | Ht { WAS STILL AT THe THE PROPRIETRESS THis BOY! w BOY agusTa MINUTE PLEASE» ot - ~I'M SO SORRY ~PAHDON ME ~~ [ HouGHT I ., HOTEL CARLRITS ~~-So STUPID OF ME fue ae WHAT “I MEANT TO SAY WAS. — dS0ES INS) OBsECT t Ud,w WELL =¢ ~ EXCUSE MY FOX PAWS ~OR WHATEVER (TT iS IS FRENCH! ~ BUT WE ALL SMOKE HERE, oF To WOMEN SMoKiNe 2 ONLY A BLUFF ~LIKE A PAIR OF DEUCES? BARBS | The farmers ses A professor says that the respect | have new cotton-| in New Yor Wall Strect has | show business. -| operated a lmmb-picking apparatus America is setting an example which must remove the | for years. “| last doubt abroad of her sincerity. Where is there a folks are so wild. xe & 22 ‘The fact that a man blazes up in going to set the world on fire. * ss ‘This is the time of year when the | Tah THIS HAS RAPPESED EUR quar BERT ematear | enter to otay on except Daley, whe packs and Rcaes. _Beseare ones Gtyies © etuts aed Gade bie ing secks and @ pate of aleves! Maceus, obvi. ensly ta love with Corn, werrtes aheat her arreat. Nundee learns i SOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIV “Goon morning. sir.” Dundee Greeted the little old postman deferentially. “You've probably heard that Mrs. Emma Hogarth is dead. f'm a detective.” and be showed a badge which Strawe had '©.1929 by NEA bt bim op Sunday, to be used | =- . “Et understand that regi about the first of t'. past years.” “That's right.” the postman nod- . ded. “And I was saying to myself just as | come up the walk that this ts the first time that letter aint ome regular as the calendar tt elt.” “What!” Dundee ejaculated. “You're sure the letter didn’t er rive? i'm afraid this ts serious—" “No, i ‘t bere. You see for yourself.” the postman sisted. “First time—no, it ain't. the first time either. & Bow that one month it didn't come till the third, and the old lady was it will “Probably, but the letter is im- portant,” Dundee interrupted. “Mra. Hogarth’s correspondent is. un doubtedly & close relative, and we recollect | ant Strawn on the wire. please,” he panted. “Hello. boy! What's up? you caught the murderer?” the wel- come voice of bis chief came ban- you right away. wont yout big’s broken! Something that puts as entirely new ligh: om the whole ter. rible business!” Ten minutes tater, @ breathless. batless young man catapulted {ato Lieutenaat Strawn's small office at Dolice headquarters. “What's up. Bonnie? eaay, boy. or you'll be passing out Service, Inc. versity. “No, unless they've caught him 7) @| today. Maybe it's because the old | players the coach has been bawling | ing out all season are now advanced by him as certain choices for the All- They have stopped censoring plays | American team. Quite a blow to the| The feminine touch: A fur coat. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) The earth’s core is a sea of dense {| anger now and then ts no sign he's | liquid glass on which oceans and con- tinents float and slide, according to Dr. Reginald A. Daly of Harvard uni- since I arrived in Hamilton.” dee TLL fee ant of the front apa: second floor told police that he heard the faint rirging of a door bell in the rear apartment about 8:30 that Sunday morning. The ;medical examiner placed th AHH Ur a5 Ff f i i i fF 32 if i Py Ht it ithgitie tae ‘ Fir, THE CURE OF DEAFNESS (Third article of series) Besides its use for hearing, the ear is also a direction guide. The ear canals serve as a kind of compass, They are made in the form of tubes so arranged that they report on any conceivable position that the body may be tilted in. The tubes are filled with a fluid which contains a very fine gravel. When the body is turned very rapidly so that the fluid is put into motion, one may receive mistak- en reports and you undobutedly have noticed that after you are whirled until you are dizzy and open your eyes, the world will seem to be re- volving around you in the opposite direction. 2 It is on account of their exceeding- ly sensitive ear canals that carrier pigeons can find their way for long distances, but should one ear canal be temporarily blocked off the pigeon can no longer fly in a straight line but will fly in circles. ‘The ear also registers to some ex- tent the internal pressure, and in high blood pressure it is very likely to report the fact to you by buzzing or ringing. The popular idea that anyone who is deaf has only to go up in an aeroplane and take a nose dive to have the hearing restored is not a sound one, although it has worked in @ few cases, usually temporarily, when the eustachian tube was blocked. It is stated that Thomas Edison pre- fers to be deaf, as doctors have told him that an operation would likely restore his hearing. He would rather the distracting sounds of the world be blocked from his attention, thus leaving his mind free from distract- sounds so it can do its best and most efficient thinking. Although he hears to a limited extent, and enjoys popular music, it is true that the man who gave to the world one of the most popular musical instruments, the phonograph, cannot, himself, hear the records in their full vol- ume. ‘The catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear which is the most common cause of deafness can be readily ors Strawn demand-4 “Practically mone ai ail. ent ing @ man’s voice ca: out, ‘Special delivery for Miss Graves, but paid Bo attention. Did not even open his door to look out; 00 reason why he should spy on his neighbor, of course, “When he went out for breakfast about 10 minutes later, be saya, he heard and saw noone. Asa matter of fact, the murderer could not have picked a better age enter aod ERE it z ied tia ttt i 3s i *e ag gs Fite § Py i H ry i i é. i Ef ef f LF i s : Hy Fi E i iis at beginning of catarrhal deafness, but after the con- dition has existed for years, it may be necessary to use short fasts about & month apart for at least a ycar. In addition to the fasting regime, severe cases of catarrhal deafness may require treatments to drain the drum is helpful in restoring ear ul in the elasticity of the tissues and of course, if there is ear-wax this should be syringed out. Manipulative treatment of the neck seems to be of especial benefit in many cases of deafness which would not otherwise respond, and I would advise every one who is troubled with deafness to try these methods before giving up hope of having the hearing After the catarrhal deafness has been overcome, it must be remember- ed that there still exists for a time tendency toward a return of the trou- ble, and for this reason the sugars and starches should be avoided in the after-diet. Articles on similar subject which I have prepared for free distribution. Please send 2c stamp for each article you desire. This is to partially pay for preparation and postage. Defective Hearing——; Earache and Mastolditis——; Ear Nolses——; Colds and Catarrh—. 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