The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 4

ens eae nae ees g The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck mail matter. cecccesoeseesee President and Publisher Subecription Rates Payable in Advance Per year .........+.6 year (in Bismarck) year, outaide outside gq fi FE i «$7.20 os 1.20 eee 5.00 soeces 6.00 ay Hn Lue E of North Dakota , state, per year .... in in state, three years for outside of North Dakota, gag EEE tii i g Member Audit Bureau of Circulation 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 all other matter herein. are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, gee io LEVINGS ¢ » Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Rural-Urban Population Shift ‘There is an interesting phenomenon awaiting investi- ation and explanation by somebody who can take fig- ures apart and see what's in them. It is the old move- ment of population between the cities and the farms. The @rift is particularly puzzling at this time, when the so- lution of the farm problem is under way with the back- fing of the government. It used to be that this movement from the rural con- ‘munities to the cities and vice versa was almost entirely cityward. Rural life was too meager to hold the farm boys as they grew up, and ‘industry and greater oppor- tunities, if merely in the form of entertainment, excrt- ed the pull which produced this shift from the country ‘and brought on vast increases in the populations of the urban centers. ‘Then the gospel of farm opportunities, the lure of the Yand and the love of greater individual liberty set up a counter-movement and population likewise began to shift to the farms while it also flowed from there to the cities, ‘There has come out of this a. tendency to normalcy, to become settled and to abide in fixed homes, the farm- ‘er on the land and the industrial worker in his city. ‘This is shown by a decline in both movement of popu- ation from the city and the farm as well and to the city and the farm. Neither current flows in the old volume at present. Both have been stayed by some factor which #0 far nobody has risen to explain. Perhaps it is in part Gue to the strenuous activities which extension services are making to keep the boys on the farms—an activity ‘that expresses itself in the remarkable junior club move- ment among the boys And girls. Perhaps, too, it is due to the adjustments that are taking place in both agri- culture and industry. In the stream of these unstable influences is no place to swap horses. Certain %.is that it is not the small town or village ‘which is stemming the drift away from the rural com- munity. The very small town is disintegrating and tends to be absorbed by the larger centers, as Bismarck. So that the drift to the cities is not as significant as the figures would make it seem, for the population-does not really leave the farming country—it merely shifts to larger urban centers in the agricultural ‘belts and the country actually in a large measure retains its people. The figures for 1929 issued by the bureau of agricul- tural economics show that 1,876,000 persons moved from farms to cities last year, as compared with, 1,923,000, in 1928, 1,978,000, in 1927, and = peak of 2,158,000 in 1926. he city to farm movement was also smaller, being placed at 1,257,000 persons last year, compared with 2,247,000 in 1928 and 1,374,000 in 1927. ‘Births on farms last year are estimated at 631,000 and deaths at 281,000. Taking these figures into account ‘along with the movement to and from farms, the bureau places the total farm population on January 1, 1930, at 27,222,000 compared to 27,401,000 on January 1, 1929, or @ decrease of 269,000, ‘The: bureau's figures for the past year show that in the New England states 67,000 persons left the farms and 450,000 returned to farms; Middle Atlantic states, 139,000 trom farms, 110,000 to farms; East North Central, 275,- 000 from farms, 204,000 to farms; West North Central, 327,000 from farms, 225,000 to farms; South Atlantic, 202,000 from farms, 162,000 to farms; East South Cen- teal, 206,000 from farms, 136,000 to farms; West South Central, 331,000 from farms, 204,000 to farms; Mountain states, 127,000 from farms, 78,000 to farms; Pacific states, 414,000 from farms, 88,000 to farms. Births on farms were 23 to the 1,000; deaths were 10 to the 1,000. Gtenographers are chicks, but shorthand resembles hen tracks. Can’t It Be Prevented Everybody is pretty well up on the fact that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. One of these days we may have sense enough to take that into account in every day life. ‘Two stories in the daily papers recently give especial Paint to this, One of them concerns Ruth St. Clair, the 29-year-old New York woman who got a life term when she was eonvicted of shoplifting for the fourth time. ‘The other has to do with Charles Hannah, the 61- (year-old misfit who has confessed to the murder of four- year-old Melvin Horst at Orrville, O. ‘If ever there were two cases that pointed to the need flor preventive measures these are the two. ‘Take the St. Clair case first. Ruth St. Clair has been up for shoplifting four times. All in all, she has stolen less than $1000 worth of mer- chandise, For these offenses she has been sentenced to Ufe imprisonment. ‘There was a good deal of protest at this sentence. Then | pb; ‘Ruth's record was revealed. It is discouraging. Repeat- ed attempts have been made tp help her. Various peo- Ble have tried to “give her a chance.” Every time she thas been a backslider. She is by no mésns subnormal mentally; yet some quirk in her make-up has pulled her A. Fea Ee eI MERU BE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930 bad luck, was almost certain, from earliest childhood, to wind up as an enemy of society. It's too late to do anything about it now, of course. The prison and the electric chair are about all that re- main. But some day it might pay society to adopt preven- tive methods in cases of this kind, There ought to be some way of spotting cases like this in advance. Per- haps the budding science of abnormal psychology is not quite far enough advanced, just yet; but at least it could give some valuable help. As it is, we do nothing until the damage has been done. Then we dust out another cell and mourn another trage- dy. We won't be really civilized until we have found some way of steering these “incomplete personalities” into paths where they can harm neither themselves nor the rest of us. Ploughshares and Flivvers Henry Ford’s remark that there might be circum- stances under which he would be willing to buy the navies of the world and scrap the ships for the metal in them probably drew a smile from most newspaper read- ers, ‘The proposition is rather apt, though—and it won't do‘to smile too hard, because some day Ford might up and do it. He's quite capable of it. And if an endur- ing world peace ever comes, it will come largely because the great industrialists like Ford want it to come. The thing we like best about it, though, is its analogy with the old prophecy about the beating of swords into ploughshares. Substitute dreadnaughts for swords and flivvers for ploughshares and you have it brought up to date—with several thousand years of progress tossed/in, A Puzzle for Teacher Modern life is full of puazles; but somehow a schobdl teacher seems to get more perplexing ones than anybody else—which, perhaps, is only natural, seeing that any youngster is enough of a puzzle to provide several grown- ups with mental exercise for days at a time. Anyhow, a Cieveland school sometime ago decided to segregate its pupils, putting the boys by themselves and the girls by themselves, Now, assessing the results, the teachers don’t know what to think of it all. Kept by themselves, the boys are fighting all the, time and developing very rowdy tendencies. Kept by them- selves, the girls also are getting rougher, so that they sock one anotheg with rulers and talk back to their teachers. Yet each group is getting far better marks in studies than formerly! How are you going to figure that one out? There's @ puzzle that the teachers will be chewing over for a long time. The Menace of Noise The Chicago health commissioner, Dr. Arnold M. Kegel, has taken up a subject that we have been yearn- ing for years to see some such official tackle. He has issued a blast at the great volume of unnecessary noise that pervades all of our cities. Most of this noise, he says, is unnecessary, and could be avoided by the use of proper equipment or the exer- cise of a little forethought, But we are so used to it that we do not bother to figure out ways of eliminating it. Yet noise, Dr. Kegel points out, is an actual menace to health. It seriously impairs efficiency, reduces the amount of rest one gets during sleeping hours and may even cause an actual breaking down of the nervous sys- tem. A few years ago every city assumed that an overhang- ing smoke cloud was a necessary evil. Then health offi- cials got busy, and now the smoke clouds are being eliminated. The same thing—let us hope devoutly— may happen with the city’s noise. It is a harmful thing that can be got rid of if we get ourselves to the job. | Editorial Comment | Age Still at the Helm (Atlanta Constitution) Oft repeated theories that this is an age of the young man in business and that an elderly executive is fast being pushed aside, were rudely exploded by the results of @ recent survey of the careers of 110 men who are at the helm of the largest industrial corporations in the United States. Of these 110 men, two who are more than 80 years of age and 14 who are between 70 and 80, are still going strong as national leaders; 36:between the ages of 60 and 70 are still at the helm, while the age range having the largest group of the business leaders surveyed is from re tween 40 and 50 there were ‘Thus it will of industry, 51, this group of our leaders almost half, are more than 60 years of age, while 95 are years old. Which would indicate that the “old” men of business are not so doddering as they have been accused and that they ‘have so far been able to successfully repulse the charge of the young brigade. Equally interesting as the age figure revealed in this survey taken by the Sherman Co. of New York, were the facts compiled regarding the education received by thesc 110 men. ~ Twenty-five, or almost a third, had only a grade school education. Fourteen others went. to work after com- pleting high school courses. The number who began in the so-called white collar group wes almost as large as those who began with work shirts on. Only 10% stuck with the. companies in which they started out. The record showed that the others moved about until they found ‘just the right niche for which they were best qualified. The Question of Radio Censorship | (Minneapolis Tribune) The charge of broadcasting “obscene, profane and in- decent language,” brought against the owner of a station in the south by Senator Dill, is important, because it cuts the whole question of radio of censorship. He doubts that it has any authority, believes that the broadcaster in question should and can be silenced. Judge Ira E. Robinson, chairman of the federal radio commission, is not sure just how far the commission can go in the mat- ter of censorship. He doubts that it has any authority, for example, to deal with “mere Billingsgate.” It is obvious that the radio here runs squarely into the same involved and delicate problem of censorship that has con- fronted the stage and screen for years. What consti- tutes obscenity and indecency? What is “mere Billings- gate?” What is proper and decent speech, and what is Proper and decent radio entertainment? When may the government’s intrusion into the field of censorship be regarded as right and , and when may it be regarded as a violation of the constitutional guarantee es Whip Up Behind, Mister! Massachusetts, and served as its|@ Today Is the Anniversary of MARY LYON’S BIRTH On Fch, 28, 1797, Mary Lyon, found- er of Mount Holyoke college, and a leader in the movement for higher education of women, was born on a farm in Franklin county, Massachu- setts. While receiving her education at three different schools near her home, Miss Lyon observed that the courses of instruction were too intel- lectual and strenuous for “young ladies.” Resolved’ to start an institu- tion which would meet the needs of ‘cung women of moderate means, she secured the aid of Edward Hitchcock, the geologist, and Miss Zilpah P. Grant, a teacher. Finally, in 1836, she incorporated @ female seminary at South Hadley, Pam principal for 12 years at an annual salary of $200. Her work at that in- stitution, now known as Mount Holy- oke college, was an important step in the higher education of women. BABY WHISTLES London.— Cyril Dickson, age 11 months, is said to be the youngest whistler in the world. The little fel- low cannot walk, crawl, or talk, but he sure can whistle. On awakening in the morning he arouses his parents with his high, shrill whistling. He continues almost without ceasing throughout the day. If we represent the earth by a single grain of sand in New York city, the nearest star, in proportionate size and distance, would be a six-inch globe in Juneau, Alaska. A honey bee must visit 56,000 clover blossoms to make a pound of honey. Quotations 4 the week beginning Sunday, March 2: ' Sunday = Breakfast — Coddled eggs. Melba toast. Stewed prunes, ¢ Lunch—Rice en casserole, spinach, head lettuce. as Dinner—Tomato jelly, served in cubes. Roast chicken, asparagus, avocado salad, Raspberry whip. Monda: iy Breakfast — Cornflakes (retoasted) with cream but no sugar. Stewed raisins. Lunch—Glass of grapejuice. Dinner — Cream cheese, string beans, carrots. Salad of raw cabbage and-celery, * Date pie. Tuesda: iy Breakfast — French omelet, small slice of broiled ham, Toasted cereal biscuit. Lunch—Baked squash, combination salad (tomatoes, celery, cucumbers). Dinner — Vegetable soup. Roast beef, buttered beets. Sliced tomatoes on lettuce. Junket. We ednesday Breakfast — Wholewheat muffins, Peanut buttes. Stewed prunes Lunch — Eight-ounce glass of orange-milk, Dinner — Meat loaf, green peas (camned). Chopped cucumber in becf jelly. Stewed apricots. ‘Thursday * Breakfast—Poached egg on Melba toast. Pear sauce. Lunch—Raw apples as desired. Dinner — Roast mutton, steamed carrots. Turnip cup salad. Baked .@| apples a la mode. “The more I have seen of the con- duct of our ‘foreign relations, the more I am convinced that we are bet- ter off out of the League of Nations.” —Calvin Coolidge. nee “No one who thinks of Joan of Arc can think that marriage is the only Perfection for human life.” —Dr Richard: C. Cabot, * ex “Being a well dressed man must be almost a career; nobody who goes in for it has time for anything else.” ‘4 —Heywood Brown, critic. se * “The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.” —Norman Thomas, New York Social- ist leader. Friday Breakfast—Cottage cheese, pineap- ple. Toasted cereal biscuit. Lunch—Baked ground beets, cooked celery. Salati of shredded cabbage. Dinner—Broiled filet of sole, arti- choke. Salad of sliced tomatoes on lettuce. Plain Jello or Jell- well, no cream. Saturday Breakfast—Baked eggs, crisp bacon. Melba toast. 5 Lunch — Potato on the hajf shell, spinach, raw celery. Dinner — Vegetable soup. Broiled steak, steamed carrots. Salad of quartered cucumbers. Minced prunes in gelatin. "Date Pie: One pound of dates, stoned and cut in small pieces. Soak overnight, or for several hours, in one pint of thin sweet cream. In the Ra /NSRotmance © 1930 AV;NEA Service Inc., And. Ste erteke ‘the. pate = situnti 7 is carry! , MICKEY Judith he has "a Knight looked up smiling at his secretary, who sat with dicta- tion notebook on one corner of his desk. “Well, it isn't going to be long now, I hope, before I'll be getting into the office myself and save you all these suburban trips.” Miss Tupper met Kaight’s smile with ove in which maternal.tender- ness: and the respect due an em- ployer were mingled. “I do hope you'll be back at your desk soon,” she answered. “Every- one in the office is anxious to sce you. But you know it isn’t any bother at all for me to come out here. I—I don't mind in the least.” She had barely from adding that enjoyed the intimacy of working with Arthur Knight here in his home. It would have been a truthful statement but she decided the words seemed’ too personal. As though any thought at all of, Kathryn Tupper’s concerning her employer was not personal after she had worked with the man and for him for 15 years! The private secretary had not forgiven Knight for marrying his attractive young wife, but she was like an indulgent elder viewing a willful child. She preferred to think bis errors were the fault of others, “That's all very: well!” Knight assured her.” “Just the same I know coming out here is a nu: Well, strictly io copfdence, I've made Shephard premise to let mo ont Ste house ‘week ipper’s voice, clearly’ her words, expressed delight. “Don’t suppose I'll get into the first day, but it’s a start. Seems as though I've been up in this house for 10 years!” “Yon've always been so acti murmured the secretary. “But must turn over @ new leat: now You can’t keep on going this stren- uous pace—" J Knight interrupted. His fore head wrinkled in a frown. “Miss Tupper.” he said, “1 want your frank opinion. Will you be honest with me? Tell me, do you thinM I've aged in the past few months?” “Why—oh, my no! 1 didn’t mean that, Mr. Knight! Oh, 1 hope you didn't think I meant anything like that. It's just that you aren't as strong as you were. I mean, you musto't let yourself get tired!” He smiled at her confusion. “I'm afraid you're quibbling. Well, no matter! 4 certainly mustn't keep you any longer now. You'll be out tomorrow?” She said she would arrive at the| usual time next day. Then Miss Tupper picked up her brief case and went out into the hallway where Harriet brought her wraps. APTER she bad gone Knight con- tinued to sit slumped back in his desk chair. Tony found him in the same positién 15 minutes later. She came in radiantly to in- vite her father to tea. “Tea for an invalid?” he asked. “Do you think it's quite proper?” “You're not en invalid, mi You're the horny-handed son of toll! Haven't you been: working all afternoon? Too bad Miss Tupper’s gone, isn’t it? She might bave Uked a cup of tea.” Knight followed his daughter into the living room. No one else was about. “Where's Judith? ‘he asked “Oh, 1 don’t know. In the city, 1 suppose. She's been making a.lot of trips in town lately, hasn't she?” Tony was as casual in ber man- uer as were Ker words. Harriet en- tered with the tea tray and placed it on a table conveniently near. Then she filled the cups and served the plate of cakes, Knight sipped his tea, looking bored. Tony put down her cup and perched on the edge of her father’s chair. “Darling's tired, isn't ne?” she crooned. — Knight shook bis head. “Yes, he is. He's tired and fed up with this stuffy old place. What you need is 8 lot of people around and things happening. Life! Come on—let’s go plates and do things! Let's get the car and have dinner in town tonight!” “Not: tonight, Tony,” her father sald, “Next week perhaps, I'd certainly like to, But what would Judith say?” ‘ { Have we always “Oh—Judith! got to think about Judith?” “Of course we have.” . “But she forgets about-you.” do you mean?” A harsh But I suppose for some. who fsn’t accustomed to this rt of life it would be monoto- think Judieh ‘ts tired of— AURA LOU BROOKMAN “Oh,“of ourse not! 1 just: meant it’s only natural for her to want to Set around and see her friends oc casionally, Who are her friends, Father?” “Why—the same people you and 1 know.” “But there must be girls—and men—that she knew before you and she were married?” Knight looked at Tony, She had started off a whole train of suspt- ¢clous thoughts, each catching fire from the other like a package of Fourth of July fire crackers, eee i goad was quick to seize her op- Portunity. “You know, Father,” she went on seriously, “I've learned to under- stand Judith a lot better than I did. Of course, you know | apolo- gized for the way 1 treated her at first. I couldn't help that, It was because 1 loved you so much! But lately since we've all been home to- gether so much I've learned to Know her better. There's just one thing that—rather hurts me.” “What is.ghat?” “Well, I've tried so hard-to be friendly with her but it doesn't seem to do any good. She—I guess she doesn't like me!” “Nonsense, Tony. You mustn't talk that way about Judith.” “But, Father, it's true! Yester day afternoon I rearranged al} my plans so I could drive into town with. her. For some reason—I don't know why—she didn’t seem to like it at all.” “I'm sure you're mistaken, Tony. Judith does want to be friendly with you. I know that.” “Ob, I'm eo glad! If you really pabiare that, I'll keep right on try- ing.” She slipped her arms about her father affectionately and laid her head against his shoulder. Present- ly she glanced up at him. Arthur Knight was stating off across the room ‘with unseeing eyes. “Father, isn’t it time for you to Test now? You know—doctor’s orders!” ‘| He smiled at her, “You're becoming quite a nurse! Yes, I guess it is time for me to go upstairs now. Dinner’s at seven I suppose?” s Tony said that she supposed it ‘|was. Arthur Knight arose end went up the stairway. When at 6:30 he reappeared in the living room Tony did not hear him enter. All in sparkling white, she was intent before the radio dials, tuning in on & hotel orches- tra’s syncopation. The crash of brass and trumpet filled the room. ee vig’ crossed the room, placed @ hand on the girl's shoulders and she whirled about. sas Judith come in yet?” be asl Tony shook her head innocently, ~ “I, -havén't seen her,” she sald. “Wait—I'll ask Harriet.” Petulant little lines formed on the girl's brow. “Did sbe?” she repeated. “No, 1 can’t seem to remember anything. It's strange, isn't it?” Knight rang a bell for the maid. “Will you go upstairs,” he said to Harriet when she appeared, “and seo if Mrs. Knight~is in her room?” “Yes sir.” eee IVE minutes later he was in- sormed that Mrs. Knight was not upstairs. “She didn’t go into town, either, Mr. Knight—that is, not with the car, ‘the garage all afternoon.” Bert's been working out in “I see. Thank you, Harriet, 2 imagine Mra, Knight will be here soon,” Seven o'clock came, but Judith did not appear. Dinner was kept waiting and Arthur Knight paced back and forth, back and forth through the living room and hall. Tony had found this was no time to hear her favorite radio musi- ‘was addressed in Judith's tied The folded sheet was spred be fore’ him in an instant, rth Knight read: wi elas in ff ade Arthur Knight shut off the rau- bei cous éerial din, and waited. “Harriet says she hasn't seen her.” Teny reported. “She said Mrs. Wheeler was looking’ for her but she hasn't come in yet.” “That's strange, Judith didn't say anything at noon about going swung: out of the (To Be Continued) D Hionamcemtcanees ENCLOSE STAMPED HODRESSEO ‘Tribune. Enclose :@ stamped addressed envelope for reply. in one crust made of real whi ace S{ewheat QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Bloodshot ; Eyes Question: Mrs. J. ©. writes: “My daughter has had to stop school on 4 account of her eyes. They burn and are very much bloodshot. Not having - worn her glasses regularly I believe brought on this acute condition. It you suggest @ fast, do you think the fruit has been sprayed for the Medi- terranean fly, and which 1s conse. quently lacking in acid, would be ad- ivsable?” Answer: Your daughter's condition 4s probably caused by some systemic toxemia and is not due wholly to the fact that she has not worn her glasses enough, If her eyes require glasses she should wear them at all times, but see -to it that her diet is. correct and that her bowels move two or three times daily. The spray used on oranges does not affect the food value of the orange, and I am in- formed that the acid content is not changed, although this would make no difference in your daughter's casc. Acne Question: G. K, writes: “Please advise me through your column how I may cure a@ severe case of acne which I have had for three years. Have tried many doctors, but got only temporary relief. Answer: Acne is primarily caused by an unhealthy state of the eek Which is due to using the wrong kin of foods. A contributing cause may be a naturally oily skin, or careless- ness in keeping the face clean. ‘Wash, the face several times daily with soa) and water, following with cold towel 4 Eliminate all fats and oils from your diet, using only small amounts of butter. Overcome constipation as soon as possible by following the dicts I tienes tty this column. Mean- while, use a enema, until bowel action is established. cium a