The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 4

i HH | : i 4 un Declining Villages psbeth Dicks to 95 tunately tn ttact: wits tka ematl fural communities that the decline of many of the vil- fages in population since the count of 1920 is not = sur- prise. Decadence of the village or small town has been a familiar topic of discussion in commercial organisations in the larger centers of population, as in the Association of Commerce here, and in service clubs of cities like this. commercial circles with the situation that the census now is formally reiterating with actual figures. Modern combination of industry and business in some tases is depriving some of the smaller places of their industrial sustenance, in closing out shops and mills to tbe concentrated in larger centers. This is in part the pecret of the decline in the East and middle states, Nearly 60 per cent of the small towns counted in Mli- fois and Indiana showed a marked decline in population @uring the last 10 years. Some have been abandoned al- . | will cause @ decision on the merits of the whole question. in adjacent states the same tendency is noticed. ‘The small town, evidently, is going the way of the one- thorse shay. For generations it was perhaps the most purely American thing on the continent. Now it is go- fing. The census of 1940, undoubtedly, will show its de- pline carried still further. A good many things are to blame. The automobile and the hard-surfaced highway probably head the list. ‘They have freed the farmer of his dependence on the cross- | >*! roads store, the village doctor, the diminutive country bank and the small town professional man. Movies, ra- dios and daily newspapers probably have played a part too, The rural hamlet, in other words, has outlived much Of its usefulness, People no longer need it as they once | Do did. ‘This change indicates a shift in a basic part of Amer- At any rate, for better or for worse, we are changing. Modern life is setting us on a new highway, and no tne ‘ures can only give us a glimpse at a few of its major tendencies, ‘At Best a Compromise President Hoover has come out of the disarmament tonference better than was generally expected. It is a agreement, with Prance and Italy comply- ... THE BISMA tree to dismiss bread-winners by the hundred and by the thousand without giving a thought as to how these breadwinners may succeed or fail in earning bread for themselves and their families.” ‘Then, by way of a final prod, he warns: “If industry itself confesses its indifference or its in- ability to wrestle with the problem of unemployment, in- cluding the older workers, depend upon it that the poli- ticlans will step in.” ‘There is sound sense in all of this. Industry will do ‘well to heed it, Bearers of a Nation’s Gratitude Japan is paying a graceful tritfite to the United States for assistance given during the earthquake of 1923. Five Japanese girls, clad in brightly-colored kimonos and carrying cherry blossoms, are the messengers select- ed to-bear a nation’s gratitude. ‘They have visited several cities and in person conveyed greetings to the highest officials of the nation, including President Hoover. Appreciation is 50 seldom shown in such a direct man ner as that chosen by the Japanese nation. Other na- tions have been lielped when in need and the usual ex- change of messages go through official channels, but the Japanese have selected a unique manner in which to bring their gratitude directly to the people of this na- tion. ‘That the message has been appreciated is demonstrat- ed by the cordial reception the girls have received in the various American cities visited. _ Skol, Staale! A. C. Townley is running for congress in the Third dis- trict as a "wet without Nonpartisan League endorsement: Staale Hendrickson, the sturdy Nordic of the Mouse river loop, is running for congress in the Third district as a wet with real Republican endorsement, Rea! Re- publicans distinguishe. I. V. A. Republicans from League Republicans—a distinction however, without a differ- ence. Skol, Staale! Politics produces strange complexes. Y For once Townley and Staale agree on an issue. The Heflin Case cw Star) Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama is still officially outside the ramparts of democracy. in his native state. But it has not yet been definitely settled that he will remain there. It is enh porated hegpbcorse Aamo ton. . of the supreme court. an injunction su broughe againt certain activities of the Democrac state |aye ‘consisted of a, seport ofthe comm! » Wi if it had nm upheld woul ave = "4 vented the committee ‘from going forward with the pri- | quecn’s speech to both houses mary, did not really go to the merits of the case. Rather, it decided that the court had no jurisdiction in the particular case as it was brought. The suggestion is now advanced that Mr. Heflin or his friends may attack the problem from a different angle and bring a suit which marine intelligence from New Philadelphia and New ‘single advertisement from the pub- lisher himself. “ In 1719,’the News Letter met with! @ bitter rival ‘in the Boston Gazette, but with its mame changed to the is Mu _ BEGIN HERE TODAY. * RIS MATTHEWS, maa te murdered tn a = blow from heavy” perfume’ Saat given MRS. BERKELEY by SEY- MOUR CROSBY, engaged te CLO- This question, in simplified form, is whether the state Democratic committee, under the law, is warranted in fixing one. status for voters in the Democratic primary and another for candidates for nomination to office. The Heflin people have challenged the right of the committee to do this thing. Mr. Heflin and other Democrats who opposed the election of Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic 1928, mn next November, he will more vulnerable than if he is permitted to run in primary in August. The state commit- | { F It change. Heflin and his friends set considerable store by | » The refusal of the court its merits, thus leaving the door na rebuff. But “Tom” | Even though the door remains | him, he will make a fight in Alabama for the | will long be remembered, wheth- Bee il Hi ult e 10 are at present included with- torial primary, John H. Bank- tor and brother of Representa- I. Thompson, newspaper member of the shipping board, quite ith decision of the supreme with them, Heflin would, Without Heflin | ie Bi i | i t i HH Eg Hy elt f Hi i Nye Heads ‘Slush’ Committee (Washington, D. C., Star) ‘ ‘The senate’s campaign expenditures investigating com: mittee has finally been completed. Three of the ap- pointees to. the. committee originally selected by Vice Senator Hiram Johnson of California, Senator Pittman of Nevada and Goldsborough of Senstor Maryland, asked to be relieved. 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