The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1930, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Bismarck Forging Toward Destiny Now mark Bismarck! Another championship has come to the city on the Missouri. It has achieved the greatest growth of any major center of population in the state of North Dakota since the census of 1920 was taken. Jumping from a population of 7,122 ten years ago, it has attained a total of 11,080 residents. This is a percentage of 55.57 gain. Even more im- pressive is the showing of 20 years. Since 1910 the city has expanded from a population of 5,443 to the present 11,080, which is an increase of 103.56 per cent. No city in North Dakota has grown like that in that period. There is a significance about the distinction. Perhaps the fact that this is the capital of the state has been a factor, but that has not been all that has gone into the making of the city. Improvements have had much to do with Bismarck’s growth. The fact that the city has more street paving than any town of its size in the country necessarily has been an influence in bringing people here. Also its sew- ers and, above all, its water, eee Bismarck is preeminently the city of the state which has water for all purposes in plenty, whether it be for drinking, cooking, fire protection, irrigation or naviga- tion. This natural resource is all the more pronounced for the fact that almost every other rival city in the state finds itself handicapped in this respect, so much so that all the other municipalities are talking and planning to draw on Bismarck’s advantage by diversion of the Mis- souri river to supply them at expenditure of millions of dollars. Bismarck is now finding its stride. Originally it was Younded on @ dream of another great Northwestern riv- er port, out of which all the commerce of the vast region beyond Yankton and this side of Fort Benton, Mon- tana, and the Black Hills, would be distributed. Coming of the railroad, which wiped out steamboat traffic on the Missouri, shattered this expectation. In time Bismarck bégan to find itself in the changed circumstances. It is again on the road at the end of which the vision of a populous commercial future beck- ons its ambitions. It has adapted itself to the conditions of the last ten years and awaits the next ten with con- tident composure. The gain in population since 1920 shows that its confidence is not misplaced. eee Bismarck now is organized to realize its destiny. Not a small amount of credit for its census showing must’ be attributed to this phase of its equipment. Its business elements are banded in cooperation, are wide-awake to opportunity and are tireless and resourceful in pursuing projects capable of contributing to the development and growth of the city. ‘This city is not fitted for growth alone by reason of the Missouri river being at its doors. It is in the center of a fine agricultural region which is just developing its future and as the hub of this area it is assured of a big business future. Vast natural resources are close by, awaiting the day when they shall be needed, to be turned into manufactured preducts or to supply the means of reating such manufactured outputs, Bismarck, in fact, might base its slogan on the fact that it is the heart of vast undeveloped resources. No city in the state is as magnificently equipped from @ natural standpoint for a prosperous and important fu- ture as is Bismarck. It sits amid lignite deposits and * glay beds and water power, with a great transmissis- sippi-Pacific Northwest railgray line to supply its trans- portation needs and the river to turn to if water trans- portation again is to come into activity as an additional means of traffic resources. With the coming stage of adequate population to provide markets at home and nearby it is bound to become a manufacturing center, as “tis well qualified to be. eee Meanwhile, in these ten years while it has been ex- panding its population in step with means to support it beyond the progress of its sister cities of the state, Bismarck has been equipping itself for the big days to come. Its paving, its water, its lighting, its sewers, its splendid homes are not all that have been provided. The memorial community building now under construction is another provision of forésighted progress. It is des- tined to play an important function in the future of the city. And now natural gas is to come in and, possibly, a sub- terminal clevator of such importance as 1,000,000 bushels capacity, to serve as a factor in the new agriculture which 4s to rise from farm relief. -Anyhow the fact that the city has turned to think about this is an index of progressive- mindedness that is significant. A With the approach of midsummer the thoughts of its citizens turn with those of the other sections of Bur- leigh county to the surmounting of another long delayed realization—a new courthouse is to be built, one em- bodying spaciousness, epnvenience and dignified beauty. In time the state will provide a new capitol building. Ever the future of the city grows more luminous, its civic pride more justified. ‘The real big factor of Bismarck, however, is the char- acter of its people. Without their self-reliance and their | ¢i courage and their vision, population would count for little. Bismarck, therefore, has something more to be proud of than the greatest census gain ‘in the state, and-that is the solidity of the city as expressed in the quality of its people. May they take renewed spirit from the distinction that has befallen the town in its gain of 5.57 per cent in residents. The future which this prom- {ses is worthy of their continued inspiration. Six New Caterpillars At the national air races last summer, spectators were ‘thrilled immensely when a big army bomber soared aloft and sent six men down to earth in rapid succession, by parachute. It made @ grand spectacle. Yet the average spectator 4 ‘ Probably looked on it simply as a‘stunt—diverting and daring, but of no practical value. Now, however, it develops that the army officers who trained their men to do that sort of thing knew what they were about. The other day a tri-motored army transport plane was soaring along near Fresno, Calif. when a propeller went to pieces and ripped open a wing. There were eight men in the plane. Six of them promptly jumped out, opened their parachutes and floated down to earth unharmed. The other two stuck by the ship—and man- aged to land it without hurting themseives. But the point of the matter is that this six-handed Jump proved that it was something more than a stunt. A Well-Meant Idea Foolishly Stated Assuming that illiteracy and corruption are one and 00] the same thing in a voter, Frank J. Loesch, chairman of the Chicago Crime commission which is trying to dis- pose of racketcers by making faces at them through the medium of “Who's Hoodlum in Chicago?” “has come out with another proposal to bring about the millennium. This time he would disfranciise the illiterate voters. He made his plan public through the Chattanooga univer- sity institute of justice, recently. It doesn’t matter much .how a bad voter is disfran- chised, just so you catch him some way and perform the operation, but it is not certain that branding the illiter- ate as an undesirable elector is strictly the proper class- ification on which to base the new reform or even what Mr. Loesch actually meant. Illiterate voters have per- formed vital functions in the development of the nation in its time. The colored vote in the day when it was hardly to be rated as anything but illiterate was the decisive factor in many states in retaining them in line for the party which guided the nation in progress into prosperity and to a status of international power among the nations. . However, it is plain that Mr. Loesch actually is driving at voters who lack the simple virtues of honest citizen- ship and respect for law. In that the illiterates have no monopoly, nor are all illiterates that. There are a good many educattd people who are not good citizens and whose exercise of the franchise is a pernicious privilege. What Mr. Loesch means is that there are voters who are just so many accomplices of criminals because they do not possess the sense of honor to shun alliance be- tween ‘politics and criminality. If there is any way to get rid of these, Mr. Loesch will win approbation the na- tion over by pointing out how it can be done—with due consideration for the political conception of the right of ballot. Mr. Loesch: says it would justify the revision of the constitution to excise this cancer in the body politic. Or- ganized crime, he says, is directly traceable to the re- lationships which the underworld is able to build up with unscrupulous politicfans. These politicians have in- fluence from top to bottom of the law enforcement ma- chine—from members of the legfslature, and judges, down to the policeman on the beat. i ‘The underworld, therefore, has things its own way be- cause its political friends can pull strings for it. And the politicians keep themselves in office by manipulat- ing great masses of illiterate or semi-illiterate voters, who vote blindly, as they are téld, but whose votes count for just as much as the votes of ministers, university presi- dents or bankers. So, says Mr. Loesch: “The illiterate voter must be disfranchised, after a reasonable time is given to qualify the voter, and the right to vote given to men and women only who intelli- gently use the English language.” ‘Now we know what we suspected at the outset, that Mr. Loesch is talking foolishly. Without denying that crime conditions are rapidly getting unendurable, and. without denying Mr. Loesch’s knowledge of the facts, it is quite possible to disagree ‘ith this rather sweeping conclusion. Unfortunately, the mere ability to read and write does not guarantee that a man is going to vote intelligently. A dumbbell who can read may be even more dangerous than one who cannot, for he can pore over the propa- | ganda emitted by the unscrupulous. It might be desir- | able to limit the vote to those who can vote intelli- gently; but how on earth are you ever going to succeed | in drawing that line? And how many of us would be able to go to the ballot box if you did? H Our democracy has its faults, beyond a doubt. The | demagogue and the rascal have always been able to get | votes, and very likely they always will. But the history | of the nation shows that a real leader—a Lincoln, a | Roosevelt—does not get ignored. No man can make a| greater mistake than to underestimate the American capacity for following a genuine statesman. There are plenty of defects at the bottom of the so- | cial structure. But there hasn’t been any too much good leadership in the last decade, either. Editorial Comment | Stock Market Vicissitudes (New York Times) The recent violent: fall in prices on Stock Exchange, | carrying even the “selected averages” down about 15 per | cent from the high point of April, caused the usual outs | burst of dismay in speculative circles. But it was notice- able that nobody interpreted the break as necessarily foreshadowing an equivalent decline of business activities. Wall Street itself. merely pointed’ out, by way of ex- planation, that prices as measured by the “averages” had been advanced 21 per cent in the year’s earlier weeks, although the course of business activities had been dis- appointing during all that period, and although a great part of the autumn break in stock market prices had been recovered before the present year began. . It is impossible, however, that such incidents should not somewhat impair the public's faith in the old tradi- tion that the stock market's variations indicate accur- | ately the future course of trade and industry. There | were good reasons for that tradition. The rise or fall in shares of companies engaged in transportation or manufacture was assumed to reflect the actual pur- chases or sales of investors closely in touch with a busi- ness situation, and aware by personal observation and experience of the trend of trade. It is true that, even then, the stock market was surrounded by a host of haphazard speculators and tipsters, who concerned them- selves little with the larger economic currents but bought only because the market “séemed likely to go up,” and sold on the opposite idea. But it used to be only occa- sionally, and at reasonably long intervals, that this sort of random speculation would so far overtop the genuine investment operations as to drive Stock Exchange prices ina siesta opposite to what visible ‘trade conditions indicat : . ‘That certainly happened in 1902. It happened even in the early months of 1920; but it resulted almost invari- ably, as it apparently resulted in the early part of the present year, from the fact that money rates were very low and that facilities for promoting speculation could be obtained on easy terms. It was apt, on such occasions and under such influences, to present the singular para- lox of rmeney rates failing because of reactionary trade while the stock market, which ostensibly reflects trade conditions, was rising enthusiastically because of the easy money which had been caused by trade reaction. | In recent years it has becomé something of a Wall Street formula to insist that, even if a “booming” stock market ‘was not accurately foreshadowing the next sea- son‘s business situation, it was at all‘events anticipating the sure prosperity of the distant future. But that kind of “discounting” has always been recognized as hazard- ous. Applied in the longer past, it would have put up the price of railway shares in 1885 to measure the railway situation of 1900 and 1901, though the long list of rail- way insolvencies of 1893 and 1894 lay between. As for the present business outlook, it is likely for the present to be judged by other indices than a season's violent alternations of rising and falling prices on the Stock Exchange. Perhaps, when the present feverish turmoil THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 1 The Widow’s Might! FD | Today Is the Anniversary of FIRST AIR MAIL On May 15, 1918, the first regular daily air mail service in’ the world was inaugurated by the United States government between New York and Washington. Before this time there had been at- tempts to carry mail from point to point or across intervening bodies, ot| water, but not.on a large and regu- lar basis of service. 5 The service was begun with a spe- cial stamp of 24 cents to a letter, but later the rate was reduced to 16 and then again to 6 cents. The distance between the. cities was negotiated in three hours and 22 minutes. At first the Washington-New York service was maintained by the air service of the army, but as soon as its reliability was demonstrated, it was taken over by the Postoffice Depart- ment, Although the service was discontin- ued in 1920 from motives of economy, similar services were established be- tween the larger cities. On Septem- ber 8 of the same year the transcon- tinental mail was inaugurated be- tween New York and San Francisco. ‘The North Carolina Bar association has an active membership of 1,100 lawyers. ©1950 ' BEGIN HERE TODAY ire ives call to BERNADINE LAMON’ night clu ter th: dim Mat germadine's “recovery ‘The actress surprises ing th her temper to Alan, He her home, hi but him back to in surprised to find Phi CHAPTER VIIL “ ISS WEST!” there at ‘his desk, a she had just sat down to work, ing leisurely on a frugal meal. many mistakes last month.” expostulated. “I know,” Phillipa agreed, “but I'd go over them myself.” denly, that it was 80 attractive shoul ures, “Why Geoffrey?” he inquired bluntly, Ss more effective than “wor Alan received a distinct impress that she did not care to talk Alan ended ft. : unfinished.” lessly tormented him, the office. has died down, the stock market itself will begin once more to indicate soberly the immediate industrial future. | ¢ NATALIE CONVERSB tries. to jealousy when other her me ree Lae ‘hat he ng to doctor tell him Is office to work. He ipa there. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY She smiled easily at him, and glanced down at the pile of papers. “I'm checking over these figures,” she said quietly. “There were too} “But that fsn’t your work,” Alan want them right. And since I'd nothing else to do tonight, I thought Alan regarded her with the thought, which came to him sud- range @ girl have nothing better to do in the evening than occupy herself with columns of fig- n’t you ever go out with -Phillipa hid. the smile that. wanted to come to:her lips. It was the first time that Alan had ever shown by word that he knew there was anything more than the most | firmly. e 2: HE did not answer=a course young Norman. He wondered why. The silence was growing a bit}: + awkward, “Phillipa had no mind to break. it. She.was too well pleased that ‘he had mentioned Geoffrey. “Well,” he said, “since we're both here, let's clear up-that work I left They went to work, but Alan found it difficult to keep his mind off his companion, The difference between a woman who wanted to help a man, and one who cease was too keenly emphasized by Phillipa’s act in staying here to work alone in “Look here,” he exclaimed sud- Y ‘NEA *' SERVICE "INC. Alan stood in the doorway of his office and uttered the name in surprise. He had not dreamed of seeing Phillipa there.’ She had worked after office hours for him before, but never so late, and never without first volunteering to do so. “What are you doing?” he asked, vaguely stirred at the sight of het’ pile of pape before her, but looking as thougt As indeed she had. For when she left the office shortly after Alan's departure, she had made an appoint- ment at a beauty shop, before din- denly. “Did you have dinner?” Phillipa hesitated. Should she deny having eaten, he might insist’ 1] upon taking her out to dine, She said she had eaten. Phillipa did not ask him if he'd had dinner, Astutely she guessed he hadn't. interested in the work, and took no heed of the time. Phillipa sur- reptitiously glanced at her wrist watch now and then. The last tinte she did it, Alan surprised her at it, and asked her what time it was f not late,” she said lightly. ‘Let’s finish.” Decisively Alan pushed the pa- pers aside. “Not tonight,” he said HILLIPA sighed in mock regret ‘an@unuttered thankfulness. “I suppose you do waut to catch an early train,” she suggested, “but in | I'd thought ” Her voice tratled it] away and ended In another sigh, a very soft, scarcely audible sigh. “Never mind my train,” Alan told her. “What were you thinking?” Phillipa seemed.suddenly to give {nto her desire. “Doesn’t it make you hungry, working like this?” she asked, as though she were con- fessing: to. some weakness. Then, before Alan could answer: “I would like a cup of coffee, and I know a Place that's somehow just right when you want to be quiet.” “Tired?” Alan was contrite, “No—just . . .” She shrugged. “T’ll get my things.” Alan watched her go with an admonition to him- self to be more considerate of her in the future, “Where is this place you spoke % “I'm checking over those figures,” she said. After a while Alan began to get | usbandg Hunter of?” he asked when they were in lo: the street, looking about for a taxi. “I'm afraid it’s out of your way,” Phillipa confessed. “It's not far from where I live.” “That’s over on the East Side, isn’t it?” < “Yes, near Second avenue.” Alan hailed a driver, “Tell him Second,. between Twelfth and Thir- teenth,” Phillipa said. “It’s a base- ment.” “Tea room?” “No, it’s just a place. It.has at- ere without seeking it, and there’s. music that you don't have to-hear unless you want to.” Alan liked the place. It was noth- “There were too many mistakes last month.” know. change.” “Yes, of course, and gét a smart apartment’ near Park avenue, and I'd enjoy it too, but you see. .”.” EXAMINATIONS ARE IMPORTANT Every good physician considers blood tests of the utmost importance @S an aid in making diagnoses. You will realize how important the blood is when you consider it the principal method of providing nourishment and drainage to practically every living cell in the body. Contrary to the opinion of many People, taking @ blood test is neither painful nor dies it require the loss of much blood. In order to obtain the blood a sample is usually taken from the end of the finger or the lobe of-the ear. The part is first cleansed with alcohol and dried. Then a small puncture is made with a special in- strument which cuts through the skin with no more pain than that from the prick of a pin. The blood is then Squeezed through the opening as the doctor presses just below and samples of the blood collected in sterile pip- ettes. After a few_drops of blood have been removed, the spot is again sterilized and covered with some pro- tective substance so that no germs can enter and is in this way, guarded against infection. One of the usual tests made is to compare the color of the sample with the right shade for normal, healthy blood. If the color is too low it is an indication that the hemoglobin of your blood is not plentiful enough. The color is expressed in percentage, thus the normal blod may be said to Tange from 85 per cent to 100 per cent. The hemoglobin of. the red cells gives them the special ability to absorb oxygen. When the hemoglobin is reduced it means that the cells of your body do not obtain as much oxygen as they should. Usually the next step is to make a smear, that is, a small amount of blood is put on a glass slide and al- lowed to dry. This is then placed under the microscope so that the cells can be distinguished and counted. In this way it may be found whether the cells are in the normal range of color, shape and size. The compar- BLOOD HEALTH«DIET ADVICE OY Dr Frank shbe ye Fast SER ino On ok npuaies mca 01s ek | ative number of red blood cells arc white blood cells to each other and to the normal is of great importance. ‘Much publicity has recently been given in regard to the use of the envelope fer reply. blood test in determining the paternity of children in contesting divorce cases. The blood from the mother, from the child, and from the supy posed father is all taken. By com- Paring the samples it can sometimes be told from whom the child has in- herited its blood. All bloods may be divided into four groups. In case the four tests belong to the same group- ing of blood or in case the two sus- pected fathers both have the same kind of blood, nothing-can be de- termined. Many parasites inhabiting the blood may be detected: by the microscopical examinations. The most common parasites to be found in the blood are those of malaria. In some of the tropical countries an organism known as the trypanosoma or the parasite «— sleeping sickness may be present in the blood. Sometimes in tropical countries blood can be found contain- ing quantities of a small worm called the filaria sanginis hominis. The blood can also be tested for the ‘Wassermann and Widdel reaction. In this way the doctor may be able to determine the ‘presence of diseases which might otherwise only be sus- pected. My readers know that in this column I have often warned them against accepting snap diagnoses without careful tests and you can see from reading this article how i portant it is for you to have you blood examined the next time you wish a thorough diagnosis, White Patches on Tongue Question: H. V. Writes: “My tongue and the lining of my mouth have little white patches with branches leading from them. I have tried all kinds of treatments, but seem to be getting worse all the time. I believe the doctor calls it “eukapleka.” Answer: There is a disease called leukoplakia buccalis, commonly called linqual corns. This disease resembles ng time—when it was better, you. They wouldn't Uke, to “But you,” Alan put in quickly, 4 “you could get something more. . “Fashionable: Phillipa supplied. could go uptown It was now Alan who finished on her pause. “Perhaps I should give youa ise, Phillipa,” he said. Phillipa smiled. All evening-he'd been unconsciously using her ‘first namie. well,” she told him with gentle re- proach in her low voice. “You know you pay me “It isn't ing of the sort he'd ever have found | money, Alan . . . Mr. Converse; it's with Natalie. The musicians were | M Rumapian. Gypsies, content in their place. The patrons came be- cause they liked the food, and felt at home there. There was relaxa- tion, even in the thick of the lively conversations that went on all over the place. ~ “How'd ‘you ever find :it?” Alan asked ‘Phillipa, “It's got no front|a at all.” "Oh, Just ‘stumbled in,” Phillipa explained. “Like to explore. What ‘do.you think of it?” “Okey,” Alan declared; “but do you really like to live in this nelgh- borhood,~ Phillipa? me. . .” He broke off just short of telling her that he thought she'd fit better in a country place. He knew he'd no business saying such things to her. eee PHLuira assumed an alr of Tesignation. “So many of us have no choice about where we| Al live,” she said wearily. “Mother and Dad. . . they've been here a them and live by myself.” not,” he agreed. he she ‘was making # sacrifice to live tl brownstone front, remodeled during of all vestige of spaciousness in the apartments. : Phill little living room all to themselves. It was Utterly uninviting. There It ‘seems to| were no endless rows of books to speak for themselves and lend their color to the drab furnishings; no fire in the shallow fireplace; no evi- dence of any way an occupant might snap himself there; not even @ radio. might, Phillipa did not intend that in her home. other and Father. Icouldn't leave Alan gave it up. “No, I suppose But when he took Phillipa home, ‘as more than evér convinced ‘The house was a shabby old housing shortage, and so robbed Her . parents -had gone to bed. and Alan bad the cramped But, be it as cheerless as it lan Converse should become bored: (To Be Continued) psoriasis in some respects and“usually respends to the same type of diet. The trouble is often brought on by some local irritation in the mouth, such as sharp points of teeth. Id should be corrected as soon as pos« sible, as there is some danger of epi- thelial or skin cancer developing. It is a good pian to use a citrus fruit fast until your weight has become slightly below normal, then you could have some local’ treatments to the growths, such as touching them with nitrate of silver or electrical cautery. They are not likely to recur if you have your teeth corrected and thor- oughly cleanse your blood stream. Contracting Tuberculosis Question: W. M. writes: “My work brings me in contact with a man af- fected with tuberculosis. Do you think there is any danger of my contract- ing this disease, and if so what cau®* tion should I take?” Answer: It is possible to contract tuberculosis by associating with somes one who has this disease, but this is not likely to occur if you guard your health carefully and avoid becoming overtired. Osler, the great medical authority, claims that . tuberculosis cannot be contracted by breathing the expired air of # consumptive. However, all persons affected with this disease should use every sanitary method in disposing of sputum. (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) es BARBS i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS %* eyo agony tee *y A horse in the Kentucky Derby ii named Stock Market. To be sure, it And it will surprise no one if Stock Market takes a tumble, “* * Just when the movement to curb petting -gets ynder way, a report comes from the south that 38 miles of shade trees have been planted along Alapncon HeLways this season. * A Berlin physician has discovered @ hormone which will reduce palpita- tion of the heart to a minimum. Now all the young girls can listen to Rudy Vallee with the utmost comfort. se & “If. the lower animals could devis® ® religion,” says Dean Inge, “they ‘would certainly represent the devil as a great white man.” But why “great?” A snapping turtle that weighs 709 Pounds and is said by piologists to be more than 300 years olff is in the pos- Session of Carter Buton of Independ- ence, FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: a a