The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1930, Page 4

armours ea AA SACP _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, APRIL 5 1930 ‘The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper sun SEY Sea Weworaren Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Nn. and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck mail matter. it RP | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ae: i years for ide of North Dakota, Canada. per year lember Aedit Bareaw of Circulation Member of The Associated Press Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it o: otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the jocal hews 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, SPENCER & LEVINGS «ncorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON gag ili f z rer rss Writing a Story Nearly all of us have just enough of the caveman in- desire to some day write a detective yarn that would be rated among the best sellers. ‘Take this from Harry Leon Wilson, now vacationing at Carmel, Calif., who has written some pretty good detec- tive stories in his time. “Guess the weight of your reader's eyelids along about must be two or three) in England and your book ts sure to be a success,” says Mr. Wilson. “It’s no use being patriotic. A murder committed in America is always solved by the police or a daring cub steporter before the last evening edition, and where does tyour mystery come in? { “Dispateh your victim in Sir or Lady Anyone's library tor study. A house party of 18 or 20 guests, all with {motives for killing the deceased, should be attendant to }the murder. H “All characters must have unpronounceable names. tana 40 others of the same ¢rend are always good. * “In the room adjacent to where the murder is com- {mitted a bridge game or a round of scotch and soda must jnever served with ice. | “There should be an open book on the lounge—the ‘open pages suggestive of the victim's thought just before the, or she, was struck with the heavy, blunt instrument. “Ladies implicated or draped with a motive must be of a Latin or French descent, should the writer decide to ,snuff out the life of his mysteree with a sheath knife “It is useless to go into the possibilities of England as ® murder setting. Who can imagine an interesting mur- ‘Swede janitor? foggy quays? can fool his own mother with a bit of pstick and a false beard. bordering the waterfront—but he must shake hands with fellow force members and give them a hearty ‘cheerio’ whenever they meet. “One of your suspects must visit Monte Carlo, the Riviera or the Canadian Rockies—to supply gendarmes or Mounties. “Shake well, keeping in mind that a sleeping potion, to be sold at $2, must deaden the eyelids, and you have your book.” fe comes, Mr. Wilson is somewhat facetlous—but,/ ootuion there are other and shorter terms than “good after all, there's a lot of truth in what he says. The| supply of available murder story plots is running pretty Jow and some of the stories we have read recently smack more of variation than of originality. But often we find enjoyment in an old situation that is dressed up in new clothes. And if it provides a good story, who Coesn't? Size isn't everything. The larger the collar, the soon- tr it wilts. Real Traveling Travel, if the old saying is to be believed, broadens the mind. This may be so and it may not; but one thing, at least, 4s sure. You can get & great deal more fun out of your travels if you put your mind in the right mood before you start out. By that, of course, we simply mean that the traveler, be his journey long or short, sees only what he wants to see. If when he sets forth he gets in shape to see un- delight him, he will be delighted. Here's an illustration: if u ; hundred miles. During that journey your train will whirl stinct in our makeups to delight in a good murder story, and quite a few of us probably have harbored a secret ‘Well, it’s easy. All you have to do is follow the rules. midnight, lay the setting of the murders (and there; ‘Lady Mertyn Waddingham, Sylvester Mackintosh Fish | i m . . | sons for their opposition. ibe in progress. Incidentally, English scotch and soda is —found beside the body with a strangely carved handle. | der being committed in an American apartment where the only characters would be a dumb elevator boy and a “Where better could the richly-clothed corpus delecti be sighted than in the Thames by a Bobby wandering the “Do not forget your disguises. Any Scotland Yard man “Lead your Scotland Yarder into London's night clubs, | @ town house, or the darkest recesses of narrow lanes | Pleasant things and disagreeable people he will see them in abundance; and if he prepares to see things that will Suppose that you start on a railroad journey of several you through miles of open country, through several large , cities and through « multitude of small towns and vil- lages. There will be stretches of open country that are The Merger Era Modern industrial corporations continue to grow in size. The fear of “trusts,” so widespread a generation ago, seems to be dead. At any rate, the growth causes few protests. Standard Oil contemplates a new merger. The steci industry is rapidly developing into a closed field for a few giants. Henry Ford, with motor plants dotted all aver Gurope, and Opel of Germany tucked under his arm, reaches out to buy out Fraschini of Italy. New 1.20 | York City evolves a bank with capital and resources of almost incalculable size. So it goes. Immensity seems to be the order-of the day. ‘Twenty-five years ago the process would have frightened us immeasurably; now we hardly bother to read the de- tails of the latest merger. In spite of an enormous increase in recent years in the number of closed-top cars, the derby hat is again at the height of fashion. Smokeless City Coming There is no place for waste in modern life. Smoke does irreparable damage to homes, shrubbery and health in many industrial centers and must be outlawed. Great progress has already been made in this direction. Oil and gas firing in homes, apartment houses and factories is increasing. Coke burners have proven effi- cient. The smokcless city of the future is taking form. Under television: “See here, Central, I keep asking ; You for Main Double-O-Seven-O and you keep giving me | the wrong face.” The mistake many a wife makes is in trying to instruct a@ man instead of flattering him. Being a pedestrian has taken on much more respon- sibility in recent years, Civilization is not going to be saved unless it makes itself worth while. A woman may be as old as she looks, but it is hard to tell it these days. | Editorial Comment One Censorship Is Enough (New York Herald-Tribune) AS a young Five hundred and sixty distinguished gentlemen, ine cluding ministers, college presidents, editors, librarians, Fremgpaemfinrs mm: authors and a group strangely classified as intellectual leaders, have signed a memorial to congress protesting against Senator Smoot’s effort to introduce a censorship branch into the customs service and giving weighty rea- It does not seem to us that it should require 560 signa- tures or very weighty arguments to convince congress that the customs service has enough functions already without asking it also to serve as a judge of literature. Senator Smoot is reported to have spent hours plodding through allegedly salacious books to find juicy excerpts which he may read to the senators in secret session, thereby shocking them into passage of his bill. All this, however, seems to us irrelevant. There are adequate cen- sorship laws already on the statute books. Let them be applied, if there be need, against anything obscene which slips through the ports of entry. The problem of apply- ing even these laws is perplexing enough without setting up a series of rival censorship bureaus on the docks, and asking the inspectors, already harassed, to pass upon the morality of every book in a passenger's trunks. On Being a Good Fellow (Chicago News) A former alderman departing from Chicago to serve @ sentence in a federal penitentiary for his participation in a conspiracy to violate the prohibition law explained with becoming resignation that he had got into trouble by being a good fellow. A police magistrate in a western suburb, arrested the other day for having misappropriated and spent some thousands of dollars belonging to the village that elected him to office, attributed his plight to the fact that he had been a good fellow, throwing his—that is, the village's —money around with a lavish hand. The president of a bank in another western suburb, now under heavy bond on account of a shortage in the bank's funds that excecds $100,000, lays claim to having been a good fellow so long as the stolen money lasted. How much sympathy is gained by men who plead that | they were just being good fellows when caught in flag- rant betrayals of trust? There are some persons so illiberal that they do not regard embezzlement of bank deposits, ncisappropria- tion of municipal funds or conspiracies to violate the law es ennobling proofs of good fellowship. In their fellow” that are much more fitting to be applied in such cases. To Cure Bridge Violence (Milwaukee Sentinel) When Mrs. Colyer bid six no trump on 13 diamonds, her husband, a man plagued by his excessive emotions, hit her with a cut glass grapefruit bowl. The “crime passionel,” the French would call that, and they would let Mr. Colyer off with a warning. Here in America it would be fairly easy to assemble a jury that would acquit him. But for all that, there is something wrong. The cases of ascault and battery, the divorces, the murders even, that are attributed to faulty bridge make a long, dis- turbing list. Why is this? In the marrow of the matter rests the belief that a good bridge player is gifted with intelligence beyond the average. The reaction of the good bridge player then is fury over the stupidity of the poor bridge player. To be impatient of stupidity is a common characteristic. A teacher may have difficulty in restraining her impulse to box a dolt’s ears. Now so long as superior bridge players think their superiority is based on superior intelligence, there will be trouble. But if they can be taught that good bridge playing is merely a skill, which, like good knitting, or basket weaving, is acquired from practice, not through intellection, they will feel constrained to deal gently with their miserable partners. ‘We suggest that all bridge players take an intelligence test. Then when an altercation breaks over the table, the defendant may demand a comparison of intelligence quotients. The irate critic may discover that the object of his wrath is his intellectual superior who has been occupied with important matters that interfered with Practice. Resuming the Grind (Cleveland Plain Dealer) | The French Cure for Insomnia! HEALTHDIET ADVICE IN REGARD TO HEAL SCARE WHO CAN 68 OF THIS PAPER SMNAED Sones 708 Rea A008 ME. COV. WEALIN SEWED. £05 ANOELES- CAL. flatulence even when eaten by ay Lees ret cid of Spe nat- urally a great more gas with one | strong digestion, but not nearly as Feats to be ebaube the Inrgs aMsoerte beats ; seems to e large amount | Lima of starch contained throughout the Seriniticinit enn bean, and because of # peculiar cel- lular construction which makes it difficult for the digestive ferments to penetrate into the protein of the bean. ‘There are a few exceptions to these general remarks about beans. The first is the string bean which, when young, before the beans have fully formed, makes an excellent non- starchy vegetable that can be used in combination with any other food, people. Another excep- tion is the soy bean which contains so Me ent oe No Take thi: Peueo te oe , starchy group and for reason er legumes close! used for a number of years | beans ly related to a ae or you like, Green fresh pods mi little more’ difficult to digest than | cooked with the peas. Lentils are meat, but because of its content, it is quite a nai ordinary wy used in the same way t! combine any other protein f soy bean has the advantage that can grind it into a flour and fat. for making biscuits, gravies and as @| food in Spain and northern Africa. ‘who must | They are like beans, difficult to digest remain on @ non-starchy diet. An-| and should not be used by those with hich is distinctly in| weak digestions when other better and wondered why so many should succumb after successful operations. ||#xcept that he had discovered gan- Grene was caused by microbes, Lister was at a loss what to do. But Pas- teur’s great discovery, that microbes On April 5, 1827, Joseph Lister, cause fermentation, gave him a clue. English surgeon and founder of an- tiseptic surgery, was born in London. |crobes whichcausegangrene could not wound unless they had | dressings a! carried there. At first he/ sterilizing thought they came from the air, sojages and he used carbolic acid on wounds to exclude the air. Finally he discover- ed that the microbes which did the most damage were carried to the wound from the hands, the clothing, the bandages or the instruments used in the operation. Thus he laid the foundation for what is called “aseptic treatment,” that is, the use of antiseptics on Today Is the { Anniversary of " use it LISTER’S BIRTH breakfast cereal for those Lister now observed that tha mi- of sponges, gloves, band- instruments, AUTHOR OF “THE AVENGING PARROT? “THE BLACK PIGEON; ETC. and Doris was in the hall. Now, prepare to thrill! Doris was cry: éy ANNE AUSTIN “Gigi, are you making this up, because you don't like Crosby, and want to clear your own family from suspicion?” Dundee asked quietly. “Of course I’m not! Ask Seymour Crosby, if you don’t believe me!” she flamed. “He was putting -some thing into her hand, closing her fin- Gers over something, and with her other hand she was dabbing at tears in her eyes. And I heard him say, ‘I'm sorry it’s not more—' and then he saw me and shut up quick. Doris said something and then turned to- j ward mother’s room, to lay out her things for the night, I suppose.” “Yes? Strawn prodded, as she “That's all there is,” she assured him. “I didn’t hang around the hall in my pajamas. I went right to my room, which is next to Mr. Crosby's, and went to bed. And I was asleep, too, im about five minutes.” “Did you see Crosby go back into j his room and close the door as you were returning to your room?” “Didn't look back. Didn't give a hoot what he aid.” Gigi retorted. ° “you ont ike Mr. Seymour “I don’t know whether I like him or not. . . . He's good-looking and bas perfectly swell manners, but as soon as I saw him and Clo together I knew she wasn't in love with him, so 1 didn’t want her to marry him. Tm a fool for romance, I am! And so is Clo, though you mightn't sue jdect it,” she added, with a teasing grin at her sister. “Shut up, Gigi!” Clorinda admon- ished her sister fiercely. Something clicked in Dundee's brain, making him recall, with star tling clearness, two apparently un- related incidents of the night be i i ga iif j i & 7 ij I EL i 8 terical think {t’s eo funay wi mother, your brother and ter under arrest for murder!” H “Are you going to leave me out?” she mocked him, and laughed again, but ber hysteria bad been success- fully conquered by Strawn’s shock- ing threat, “Ob, don't be so silly!” she added passionately, her little brown fists clenched. “Women don’t go around murdering maids because they are insolent! And I'll tell you “Oh, don't be so silly! , Women don’t go around murdering maid ance, “And you're niy friend.” “Miss Berkeley, was it John Maz- well, your old sweetheart, to whom you were talking on the Mbrary just before dinner last night?” he asked quietly. “The extent of your prying into our family affairs seems to have been unlimited,” Clorinda answered contemptuously, but there was no doubt of the panic in her dark eves, “The answer is—no!” “Let her tell it,” Strawn com- manded shortly. lighted! You sce it was this way,” Gigi began eagerly. “I had gone to bed—let's see: it was about half-past 10 when I went upstaira— but I couldn't sleep, and 1 thought ttle powwow with Dick. gone up, because he'd stopped at my door while I was un- im-|dressing to call ‘Good night, Hon- ey!’ He knew I was feeling pretty low, because mother had slapped “Friday seems.to be her day for slapping, doesn’t it?” Strawn cut HE gave him her hand with a new shyness, which he found very sweet and very touching. They were still standing, with hands i ppegere a loud. With that hot little hand in his, Dundee could not restrain the pulse to decrease her anxiety. “Did you find any perfume on Mrs, Berkeley's skirt or on the soles of her shoes, Chief?” he admitted, bis scowl deepening. “But I did make her/|in. acknowledge that she'd gone to Miss Clorinda’s room and found it she thought her daughter was taking a stroll with and dido’t . worry. that's the third lie w ber in,” be added savagely. third? Then look no further!” Gigi cut in filppantly. iiss|“Abbie has an iron rule never to pleaded, “but was it not your love for John Maxwell which made you decide on your walk last night to side with your father against your mother in the matter of your en- gagement to Mr. Crosby?” “I—" Clorinda drew a sharp breath of pain. “I refuse to answer! And I fail to see how the state of my feelings toward any man con cerns the murder of Doris Mat- LH i e z i { “Ob, 1 deserved it! I’m an awful trial to Abbie, and I had been a Uttle beast, wasting her perfume like that.” Gigi said cheerfully. “Gigi, what, was that ‘dreadful you spoke about having done?” Dundee asked gently. “Oh! That? ... 1 shan’t tell you!" and the Puckish little face ed red. “Miss Berkeley, Doris was mur- dered, we believe, during the hour you were walking about Grounds of Hillcrest, If John Max- well was with you and if your story is otherwise true, he could do a great deal to corroborate that story, to furnish you with an alibi,” he pointed out, very geitly. “I need no alibi, Mr, Dundee, for 8 crime I did not commit~a crime for which I had no conceivable mo tive, And—correct me if | am wrong!” she added icily, “1 believe & motive is‘still considered neces sary for @ conviction!" ‘There was a loud knock on the door. Captain Strawn answered, “Excuse me, sir, but @ reporter has been talking to the servants through a window, and Arnold, the chauffeur, is pretty wild. Says he has something to tell you, sir,” said Plalnclothesman Harper, (To Be Continued) « “Bo you confessed to doing some ible, did you?” Strawn in- terrupted, smiling. Then the smile wiped ont by & Dew sternness. . everything by the rule of three.” “Well, let's see" what's your ing woman!” Strawn ad- ‘Dorte Matibews” Sten te ithews,” Strawn re- minded her, scowling ‘prodigiously. “And I'll tell you if you'll stop interrupting,” she promised aweet- ly, “After I sald good night to Bon- nie Dundee, I went down stairs to red mig card and almost bumped in ir. y and Doris. They were—" “Crosby!” Strawn shouted, “Bure! A brand-new suspect for Aren't you grateful?” Gigi laughed, “They were talkii outside Mr. Crosby's door, or rather, he was standing tp the open door, “The spotlight at last!” Gigi seemed delighted. “Now, let me think! . .. Ummm. What time would you say it was when I was talking to you in the third door ve minutes to 11," Dundee ‘Ughi” and ehe| answered promptly, then turned to Strawa to explai: 1 was going up to my room, after Id be,” be told|the Smiths bad left. Gigi was ip the third Soor hall, waiting for a word from someone before Of to bed. She had—" valuable addition to the menu in cases of acidosis. The lima bean is slightly gas forming unless one has a Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet addressed to tim, care of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. , much as some of the other dry beans. & flour and used in biscuits if one dc- sires, although‘ it must be remem- bered that they contain quite a large amount of starch. When eaten they should be soaked overnight and well cooked so that the particles of cellu- lose are thoroughly softened to per- mit the penetrating of the lima di- gestive fluids. Lima beans also be used in the green state in which case they need not be ‘soaked over- night, but used as a fresh, starch; vegetable at a@ non-protein meal. There are no other beans which I would recommend for the average forms of protein are available. They lima | are, however, quite alkaline-forming. ‘nd consequently a very QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 5 Kill or Cure Murder. Backstairs ©1930 6y NEA SERVICE INC. “Drink a quart, one glass upon arising, for four days, equal parts of pomc- granate Juice, fresh cider, orange and lemon juice. Be careful when you smoke, be somewhere where someone can look at you because you may be- come unconscious,’ This seems sort Of scarey, doesn’t it?” Answer: Such a mixture of fruit juices with various acids might be quite upsetting to some people, but I do not see why anyone should become unconscious from adding a smoke to that mixture. A more sensible treat- ment to cure the smoking habit is to take a fast for a few days using only one kind of fruit, such as oranges or apples. After a day or two the desire for tobacco disappears. Prunes and Rheumatism Question: J. ©. asks: “Should rheumatic people eat prunes?” Answer: The rheumatic patient always has @ poor bowel elimination. Prunes help in overcoming constipa- tion so should therefore be used in diet of one who is trying to get over @ rheumatic toxicosis, I understand the theory you refer to about prunes being a cause of rheumatism because of their acid content. Such acid as the small amount found in prunes has no effect. on the rheumatic pa- tient, providing the rest of the diet is balanced properly. Question: A. J. asks: “Can the parentage of a child be determined by blood tests or any other method?” Answer: The blood tests are not reliable for determining the parent- age of a child, but this method will sometime determine whether a per- son is not a parent of the chift, (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ————* | BARBS | e The chest measurement of the re- cruits in the U. 8. navy is the largest of any navy in the world, according to latest statistics, It will be inter- wee to observe ee of an- ler measurement following the London conference. . seh A piece of news that will be cheer- ing to Irishmen the world over is that bricks may now be made as big as the side of a house. ~ ' “2 * A woman has been awarded $1,000 because ® parrot bit her finger in a bird store. Next thing you know they'll be sueing parrots for slander, L A horse was killed in Georgia re- cently while battling with a camel. Now which the prohibitionists capi- talise the incident. ° eee The preacher who said that the mother’s bridge and the father's golf are responsible when their boy gets SP eee aioe re luence of profane language. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS 4