The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1930, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930 The Bismarck Tribune An independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. 1. and’entered at the postoffice at Bismaicu &8 second clase mail matter. George D. Mann ............0...President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Bismarck) per year Member Audit Bureas of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The: Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of al) news dispatches credited to it or ‘ot otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the tocal news of spontaneous origin published herein All rights of republication of all other matter berein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON England Tries Wrong Remedy The government of J. Ramsey MacDonald has staved off an attack on it from within its own ranks and with the new lease of political life thus gained can apply it- self to pressing British problems which have been held in check by the naval limitations conference. The unrest in India is one of these, Egypt is another, but of all of them that which is most in the pulse of Eng- land is the unemployment situation. In fact, it was this Problem which was used to attack the MacDonald gov- ernment and try to upset it on a vote of confidence test. Sir Oswald Mosely, a millionaire convert to socialism who only recently joined the Labor party, in resigning his cabinet post as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, signalized his retirement by moving a vote of censure against the government for Labor's failure to cope with the unemployment situation. He failed, 210 to 29. MacDonald's tremendous majority was coupled, how- ever, with considerable criticism in line with Mosely’s line of attack. Members supporting the government at the same time demanded more socialistic remedies to ease the acute condition of idleness which has to be met with the quack expedients of doles. At least 1,750,000 jobless Britons are on these stop-gaps of charity and economic incompetence. The unemployment problem is ominous for all partics. Premier MacDonald says he is giving unremitting atten- tion to its solution. Nevertheless he is confronted with the condition that if the government tries to remedy the ills of idleness with further resorts to radical nostrums, it means the combined hostility of the Conservatives and Liberals in steps which will assure the overthrow of the MacDonald cabinet. ‘The reason why MacDonald and his fellow members of the government are not succeeding in solving the un- employment situation seems to be overlooked in Eng- Jand. Unemployment is essentially a technological and economic problem. Industrial reconstruction is not es- sentially a political problem. While political parties con- trol government, they do not control industry. They do not even control the economic evolution which has brought on this problem of idleness. In part that is an international development. It is difficult to see means by which acts of parliament can bear on, influence and aid disorganized and enfeebled industry in adjusting itself to new conditions, which, for lack of adjustment, Press on manufacturing and commerce in lack of mar- kets and shortage of work for the laboring masses. England's distress is the result of the war, which dis- located the industrial system, and of American and Ger- man competition all over the world with British wares. Both rival countries have turned to mass production and standarization, while England still wallows in the slough of discarded methods. Even German reparations pay- ments in kind have a depressing effect on those who receive them. It means less work at home, more hands idle and a greater burden of dole payments. If England is ever to recover from the present unfor- tunate conditions in its industries it will have to clean house and adopt elixirs which the success of other lands employing new methods has demonstrated to be the need of the day. To seek relief by means of political pana- ceas is not even certain to produce palliatives, let alone permanent restoration. English industrial methods are outworn for an age such as this has become with its multiplication of machinery and mechanization even of the human element with its standardized tasks in the was chiefly due to careless driving on the part of the average motorist. We like to blame motor accidents on trucks, or on traffic congestion, or on willful pedestrians who dart out into the street without looking; but evidently all of these alibis are deserting us. As a nation, we seem to be growing more. careless on the highways—and this at a time when every year’s traffic toll calls to us in louder and louder tones to exercise the greatest pos- sible care lest our automobiles become a curse instead of a blessing to us. Hoover Now Winning the Rounds Washington is placing a national interpretation on the outcome of the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania and finds in it a victory for President Hoover against the senate factions which have been harassing the admin- istration going and coming. It regards the Pennsylvania nomination of James J. Davis on the Republican ticket for senator as the turn- ing of the road for the president. In the first place, it has relieved the administration of the incubus of Grundyism, which is not something that has its habitat in the rump senator from Pennsylvania, the areh lob- byist Joe Grundy, but is an entity that dwells in the hostility of a large part of the public to the practices which Grundy typifies—the nomination of a Harding in a smoke-filled hotel bedroom at 2 o'clock in the morn- ing by a group of bosses, the frying out of great campaign funds by which presidential, state and congressional elections are swung, an exhibition of greedy spirit in the clamor for greater tariff duties and an evangelistic smug- ness in the wielding of political activity. To have gone into the campaign with Grundyism as the issue raised by the opposition would have been to handicap the Re- publican party hopelessly in fact even if unjustly. The defeat of the Bristol mill owner, therefore, is to give the administration and the party a clean bill and deprive the opposition of its main appeal against the ins, that is, to prejudice. Then, too, the nomination of Davis means the placing in the senate of a friend of the president, right out of his cabinet, in fact, while at the same time lessening the number of his enemies by one. It is no secret that a considerable bloc of senators would have been delighted to see Grundy triumph so that they could continue their Policy of seeking to discredit the president and his ad- ministration. The vindication thus seen in Pennsylvania's Republi- can action comes at a time, too, when the hostile senators have confirmed his new supreme court nominee, Owen Roberts; and have been balked in the tariff-making at- tempt to stultify the president. A steadfast and loyal house has stood out against their attempt in the form of a rider to muddle up the plan of farm relief by enacting the debenture bounty scheme against the wishes and the repeated protest of the president. These senators | even have consented to a modified form instead of their repeal of the flexible tariff provision under which the president can raise or lower duties according to emer- gency when congress possibly might not be in session to act. ‘The president has two important hurdles still to make —the naval parity pact and the proposed entrance’ into the world court of international justice. The latter can, and evidently will, be held back until after the con- gressional elections. The naval treaty probably will be dealt with largely on a basis of individual senatorial opinion when it comes up in the senate. Already the president has won an advantage in the probability that the pact may be disposed of between now and July 1, thus obviating a special session to discuss it and act on it. ‘There is thus considerable reason for the view of ad- ministration friends that the turn in the lane has come in the war on the president in the senate and that the executive will face a smoother future than the first year of his term has been. When Experts Disagree When experts and patriots disagree, the common man can hardly be blamed for being rather badly puzzied. This London treaty, now: Admiral Pratt, commander of the fleet, says that the fleet that it gives us “suits me,” adding that he is the éhap who will have to fight Can He Make All the Pieces Fit? — Anniversary of PUSHKIN’S BIRTH On May 26, 1799, Alexander Push- kin, Russian poet, was born at Mos- cow the son of a nobleman. Until he entered the Imperial Ly- ceum, at the age of 12, Pushkin was regarded as a backward boy. But here he developed a zeal for reading | and such a passion for literature that he soon attracted considerable atten- tion by his out-spoken criticism and Poetic gifts. A poem he wrote when 16 aroused the admiration of the vet- eran poet Derzhavin. In 1817 he offended the emperor by publishing his “Ode to Liberty” in which he expressed advanced political views and sympathy with the young Liberals. As a result he was banished to southern Russia, He was later re- instated and transferred to his mother’s estate, where he wrote, at the behest of thé emperor, a history of Peter the Great. His greatest work, Yevgeny Onegin, is a romance in verse. His drama, Boris Godounov, was used as the basis of Mor ’s noted opera. Push- kin met his death in a self-appointed duel with D'Anthes, adopted son of the Dutch ambassador, whom he thought was interfering with his do- mestic life. A new ironing board is intended to be hinged to the under side of beds that fold out of sight into recesses in hotel or apartment rooms. OO | Today Is the i jof the house, came up from Grand ph tea | Our Yesterdays | ee) FORTY YEARS AGO Major J. G. Hamilton, chief clerk Forks yesterday to finish the in- dexing. E. H. Bly, proprietor of the Sher- idan House, and Miss Hattie Bly have left for New York where Miss Hattie will enter a seminary. ‘ Mrs. V. H. Stickney, wife of Dr. Stickney, surgeon of the N. P. at Dickinson, left for her home today after a visit with the Misses Davidson at Braeside. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hagy arrived yesterday from Canton, Ohio, to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Kauffman, before going to their new home in Emmons county. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO J. O. Hoglund, of the Hoglund con- tracting firm, is in the city making arrangements for construction of the new school building. Dr. N. O. Ramstad left today for Grand Forks, where he will speak at the convention of the state medical association. Mrs. Bennet, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Merritt, left today for her home in Boise, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. William McCrory, | who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. | te Lusban with it if war comes, But Admiral Jones excoriates the treaty bitterly, declaring that it condemns us to a posi- tion of permanent inferiority. While all this is going on, British Conservatives rise in the house of commons to condemn the treaty from an- other standpoint. They say precisely what Admiral Jones is saying, only they say it other-end-to; that is, they attack it because it “condemns Britain to a Position of inferiority at sea.” Well, what's the answer? Can the common man be blamed for putting the whole business out of mind and devoting himself to worrying about the baseball game? workshops. The test will come when MacDonald is overthrown by blatant promises of rival parties and leaders to solve the crisis before which he and his government must be help- Jess. Those who overthrow the present socialist regime will be just as helpless to make headway with the prob- Jem. It can't be done by politics, because {¥ is not a polit- ical question. Some relief might be gained by adopting a modified Protective policy, but England will hardly stand for that. ‘Tariff in England has always been a bogy associated with the belief that it means dearer products for its consum- ers, especially dearer food to the workers. The corn laws were overthrown on that appeal'to the country and England, being a manufacturing country and not a food Producer in the sense of the United States and the Brit- ish dominions, has never gone back to taxes on the food supply. Earl Balfour nearly turned the trick when he dallied with Joseph Chamberlain's protective tariff proposals while he was premier, but in the end the whole scheme of duties fell through. It is doubtful whether English voters can read the writing on the wall so plainly and sufficiently that they will realize the essentially economic nature of the present dilemma which confronts the MacDonald gov- ernment and reject political pressure from Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin. It would seem that the MacDonald vote of confidence has merely staved off an inevitable storm over the unemployment situation, which, before it gets better, must get worse with a shrinking demand for coal, decay of shipbuilding and loss of markets for the Great staple manufactures of Lancashire and the Mid- lands. The greater evil of it all is that the instability which unemployment injects inte English politics is bound to do much harm with other pressing problems, such as India and Egypt, for with tenures of office as uncertain as they must be in making idleness the test of political capacity, no government will be able to find the time for efficacious treatment of these colonial emergencies. This : means continued unrest for England at home and in {its dominions, a weakening of the empire and a dimin- ished lustre of that sun which is supposed never to cet on British soil. Careless Driving Fatal automobile accidents during 1929 showed a 10 Per cent increase over the figure for the year before. Nor is this the worst of it. The National Safety Council, @fter studying the situation, reports that the increase 3 ts) | Editorial] Comment | The Menace of the Airplane (The Churchman) With the fleet of one hundred and forty-two cirplanes under military guidance flying over New York during the past week, coincident with the arrival of the fleet, much like a swarm of the devil's darning needles, the metropolis of America was able to visualize what it might expect in time of actual warfare. The mimic maneuvers should be sufficiently convincing without a shower of bombs. To scrap fleets is meaningless as & guarantee of peace. The price of a single modern battle- ship would produce enough planes to darken the sky over much of our gallant land, against which the centers of population would be practically helpless. From bases securéd with no great difficulty the enemy could lay the land desolate. That flyers might follow flyers and fight them in the sky is but a shadowy suggestion of protection. Planes thay can speed more than two hun- dred miles ‘an hour will not be Itely to stop while salt is being placed on their tails—to cite the old recipe for bird-catching. It may be that the aerial weapon will be a factor for peace. People are much more concerned about the destruction of property than about the lives of their fellow men. Until the roofs cave in they will continue indifferent. One good dose from the air would make all householders Quakers. Heredity Factor for Long Life (Scientific American) The most important element in the ability to live long unquestionably is heredity. If all or most of our im- mediate ancestors attained to ripe old ages. generally well Past the proverbial three score years and 10, it is likely that we shall also do so provided we can estape the ravages of disease, avoid accidental death and refrain from being hung for our sins. Most of the recipes for longevity are no more scientific than that given in a book printed in 1722, which revealed the secret of “rejuvenescency” of one Arnoldus de Villa. It consists mainly of eating stewed vipers. Similarly many of the warnings against practices which are stated to be sure to shorten life have little if any scientific foundation. Some of the current food faddists, for example, are vigorous in condemning white bread and attributing all of the ills of mankind to its use. The scientist realizes, however, that a diet with bread and ries as the basis comes as near to fulfilling average nysiological needs as can any combination of known ‘The real centenarians are reported to have subsisted on all kinds of fare and have indulged in all sorts of hygienic practices. Some of them have eaten white bread and some brown; some have smoked continuously and violently and some never; some have partaken of the cup that cheers and some have been total abstain- ers; some have trodden the primrose path and some have been celibates; some have been cheerful and some moros2. Every centenarian usually attributes his lon- gevity to his own poculfar mode of life, regardless of his correlation or lack of it with the accepted rules of, hy- giene. | © 1950 sY NEA SERVICE INC. 1e cou! 17 refuses hi returnin, Now @o ON WITH THE sTORY CHAPTER XVIL Att laughed. The sound sug- gested the cracking of ice, but Natalie; did not appear to notice he hadn’t meant what he sald. But she had recovered her self-control sufficiently to conceal her true feel- ings perfectly. She could laugh now; a bit frozenly, but none the Jess lightly. “I think we might try being nat- ural,” she suggested easily. “Since we can't achieve smart comedy, and we don't appear to know how to be sensible, let's just be what we are.” Alap had walked over near the door. “All right,” he said; “you be- gin, What are we?” Natalie looked at him levelly. “Just two people who have made a big mistake,” she returned quietly. “And what do you suggest do- ing?” One corner of Natalie’s mouth twisted convulsively. “I’m not sug- gesting anything, Alan, I'm doing something. I'm rectifying the mis- take, as far as I can. But 1 can't be entirely sensible about it. If 1 could, I'd tell you what to do about everything, and “how to be happy in your second marriage.” Alan put a hand on the doorknob. “And I'd tell you how to hold a husband, I suppose. No, it's the dg | Frank Donnelly, left today ‘for the TEN YEARS AGO Miss Venita: Lewis, Bisbee, Ariz., is here for a visit at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Kupitz, Col. L. M. Maus has arrived from California for a visit with old friends whom he has not seen in many years. Col. Maus served at the Standing Rock Indian reservation, and at old Fort Lincoln in the early seventies and eighties, and has many friends ered the pioneer residents of the y. Miss Florence Keniston, who has been teaching in Jerome, Idaho, has returned to Bismarck for the summer. Mrs. J. B. Gavin has returned from Webster, 8. D., where she has been visiting her parents. OO | Quotations | OO “A capacity for self-pity is one of |the the last things that any woman sur- renders.”—Irvin 8. Cobb. * * * “Lunch counters are ruining the nutrition of the nation.”—Mary E. Meuttner of the Syracuse health de- partment. ** * “Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt—particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.”—Will Durant. “Well,” Alan said slowly; “good- by, Natalie, Better luck next time.” He opened the door quickly, and was gone before Natalie's choked reply left her lips. He did not come home to dinner that night. He ate taurant on Fifth Aven fed himself exceedingly. Natalie was as dismal as he was. It was worse at home. Frances and Hannah were still there; he'd decided to keep them for a while at Jeast. At first he'd planned to close the house and live in New York, but he loved home life; the thought of being cramped up in hotel quarters was displeasing to him; he had changed his mind at the office and telephoned the ser- vants to stay. The house was dark when he ar- rived; only a crack of light show- ing past the blind in Hannah's attic room indicated anyone was in the place. Ala spirits fell lower upon finding the golden globes be- side the front entrance dimmed. He must speak to Frances about having them turned on at sunset. It made the house look better, he told himself. . WHO CAN CARE BAPER ENCLOSE STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE FOR REPLY. INFLAMED VEINS OR PHLEBITIS The name of this disease is spoken as if it were “flea-bite-us.” However it has nothing to do with fleas but refers to @ serious inflammation of a veih. The veins are more easily in- jured by inflammation than the ar- teries, and they readily go through all ine different stages of infection which tissues near them ar through. bkteae A very common cause of phlebitis is @ wound or an abscess ‘close to a vein. As the toxic material from the soaks through the tissues and reaches the vein it irritates the walls and interferes with the proper nour- ishment of the vein. As this toxic material further irritates, it may pen- etrate to the inner surface of the vein and finally this delicate inner lining becomes so roughened that as the blood flows past it lays down layer ited blood. Thus, & clot of blood is built at the point of irritation. This blood clot tends to block the free flow of other blood flowing along the veins and if it happens in one of the smaller veins, the blood is shunted to one of the other canals exactly as an automobile makes @ detour in traffic. But if one of the larger more important veins is flooded with a clot of blood the con- dition is serious and the patient must do everything possible to get well. The main danger is that the clot may be carried to vital parts in the body where it would cause serious trouble. While hiebitis is usually caused as I have just described to you, it may follow such diseases as typhoid fever, tonsilitis, erysipelas, dysentery, ap- Pendicitis, scarlet fever, influenza, tuberculosis, pneumonia and other diseases where there is a large quan- tity of pus. It is a good plan for the phlebitis patient to take a fruit juice fast. This will bring about the absorption of the clot in the most satisfactory manner. Usually the body can ac- complish the absorption within a week or 10 days although in cases of long-standing phlebitis, or with pa- tients who have had it before, the cure may take longer. Most doctors advise their patients that there is considerable danger attendant upon the clots growing smaller, and they think that it is likely to become loosened and to circulate in the body, but in my experience in hundreds of cases of this disease it has been my actual observation that in not one single case did this happen. On the contrary, all of the cases which fol- lowed the fasting regime had the satisfaction of a complete cure, with inflammation entirely removed, the blood clot absorbed, and the blood once more flowing freely through the vein in its accustomed way. The localized treatment to the af- fected vein should consist of several daily aplications of hot moist towels, which are wrung out and placed over the painful area. If you are near a doctor with a therapeutic light, treat- ments may be taken with it with good results. If the trouble is in the Hunter RUTH DEWEY GROVES leg, then a hot water bottle should be gue isteemememaeter ste | BARBS | Natalie had provided for him. He did not like it. “It’s her compan- jonship that I ought to miss,” he chided himself. And then he had to admit that companionship with Natalie had been of doubtful qual- ity. For a moment he was glad | that they were apart for a while. Awhile? She wasn’t coming back to him! His heart sank again to its former gloomy depths, The fu- ture, as he looked into it then, seemed drab and hopeless. After all, he’d had many happy hours with Natalie; not many without her. “Hang it all; maybe I was to blame,” he said aloud to the tune of the running water in his tub. “I might have been more patien with her, tried harder to convince her there wasn’t any other woman.” He decided to write to her as soon as he finished bath. Hi resolution held until he found him- self seated at his desk—the desk Natalie had brought down from Vermont for his last birthday. Then he was seized with doubt. What it he could induce her to return to him immediately? Wouldn’t she consider that she had won a deci- sive victory? Perhaps would the complete lack of mirth in it. “We slrould make a few rules for our nce in the future, I be- lieye,"'he said mockingly. “Let me see, I might say that you should never. play poker, Natalie; you do it very badly, you know. In fact, it I may 80, you're a rotten Poker playe: Natalie’s attempt to respond with an answering laugh ended in a hastily suppressed sob. “But, my dear, wl Poker got to do with it?” she m ed finally. “Oh, nothing,” Alan answered air- ily; “that’s the reason why I sug-| gest that you do not play it. It would be bad form, I believe, to. mention anything serious at a time like this. It isn’t done.” Natalie bit her lip, then decided to say what she thought. “Do you call this farce graceful and charming?” she asked. “I thought you said we needn’t be foolish just because we've. made .a mess of things.” “Perhaps you're right,” Alan agreed, “and it is only done in smart English comedies. Still, I don’t know a better way to handle the situation, do you? There's no sense in being tragic about it, is there? You've had enough of me, and I’ve had enough of you. . .” He broke off sharply, aware sud- denly that he had spoken without thought, merely rambled along to be saying something because he couldn’t keep still, His mocking attitude had betrayed him, and he truth; we aren't sensible. But it’s entirely idiotic for me to linger here discussing nothing at all. I think I'll wish you luck, Natalie, and clear out. Unless there is something I can do for you?’ He hoped that she would say he could accompany her to the station —g0 to New York with her, His own wounded pride forbade him offering any service in particular. She'd been about to leave him with- out a spoken word of farewell—or so he thought—and she'd clearly stated that her life with him had been degraded. He felt, mixed with the ache that filled his heart at parting with her, the smart of re- sentment. It was enough to pre- vent him from making an overture toward peace, But Natalie couldn't stand any more. “There isn’t anything im- Dortant,” she said stiffly. “I didn't know whether you'd keep the house open, or go down to a hotel, ao I told Frances and Hannah to speak to you about keeping them on. And ‘there’s a list of things that will need your attention, on my desk.” Alan thought her extremely cal- lous, “Have you enough money?” he asked abruptly. “For the present,” Natalie an- swered, & “Will you write?” “Of course, will you answer?” She somehow made her words sound flippant, and all the while she was hoping desperately that wanted terribly to tell Natalie that Alan would go before she broke down and wept openly. Upstairs Frances turned away from Hannah’s window and called out: “Hey, You’d better turn off that phono- graph, Hannah.” “An I lose sighed. “Shure an’ I never thought he'd mornin’ She shut off the phonograph, but fore the music had reached not Alan’s ears. there should be gayety in the hou: when it seemed there should be mourning. go 80 far as to think his conscience had driven him to grovel at her feet. Alan started his letter despite his misgiving. “Darling Natalie,” wrote, Then he stopped. He had vision of Natalie smiling in triumph over the salutation. He crumpled the sheet of paper, and threw it into the waste basket. “Dear Natalie,” he wrote on a sec- ond sheet. Again he stopped. He didn’t know exactly what he wanted to say to her. Apologize? Tell her he was sorry? It wouldn't do, He had too little to be sorry for. he’s just come in. je bet,” Hannah home before the It irked him that placed against the foot, if the trouble is in the arm, then it should be pul against the hand. The patient should rest in bed Dersonal questions on health and diet addressed to tim, cars of | The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressee envelope fer reply. | keeping quiet until the swelling has gone down and the pain has left the Parts. Once the cure is established it is very important that the patient learn how to live correctly so that his blood will no longer contain the ma- tenial to furnish another inflamma- tory condition in the vein. The fun- damental causes of this disease are: Eating food in wrong combinations and not taking enough exercise. Any Permarient cure will depend on cor- recting these two mistakes, substitut- ing good habits of both eating and exercising which will bring about better health. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Removing Calli Question: 8S. A.G. writes: “Kind- ly publish a remedy to rétove calli from the soles of the feet.” Answer: Soak your feet at least thirty minutes every day in warm water to which has been added a small amount of epsom salts. After you have thoroughly dried your feet paste a piece of adhesive plaster over the callus, removing it each time you soak your feet in the hot water. The effect of the hot water and also of the adhesive plaster will be to soften the callus. Every few days some of the callus may be removed by shav- ing off small pieces with a safety razor. Keep the blade in the razor and use it the same as you would when shaving the face. - Fattening Foods Question: Mrs. K. O. writes: “Please list in your column the veg- etables and fruits that are fattening if eaten continually.” Answer: Potatoes and Hubbara squash are about the only fattening vegetables. The fruits which contain the most fat-producing qualities are the avocado, banana and olive. Prob- ably the most fattening foods are the grains, and everything made of flour. Children Need Calcium Question: G. A. N. asks: “Will you please give a list of foods that would stimulate the gland at the base of the skull that controls growth?” Answer: You probably mean the Pituitary gland. It is not known that there are any particular foods which will stimulate its growth. Children, however, need plenty of foods con- taining calcium and other mineral elements if they are to develop nor- (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) > HH Secretary Hyde says that the farm- er suffers because Americans eat less than.did their fathers. Well, their fathers could take an appetizer oc- casionally. * * * While most poets aspire to become @ laureate, a good many people will feel they deserve the lariat. «ee It may have been somewhat em- barrassing to Edda Mussolini to have her father announce shortly after her marriage that Rome will have 2,000,- 000 inhabitants by 1950. * * * One reason why Jack Dempsey is going to Africa to hunt big game may be that he wants to show a dubious public that he can still lick his weight in wildcats, * eH “Flappers,” says a writer, “are all motion and no emotion.” To say nothing of commotion. ** * A man arrested for stealing cigars in Chicago said that he did it for his starving children. He must have overestimated the amount of cabbage the cigars contain. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) Lake Seagull Roams Air After Operation Milwaukee, May 26.—(P)—After an operation in a hospital under an anaesthetic a sea gull is roaming the Great Lakes. A hospital orderiy found the bird on the shore dragging a fish line. Surgeons removed a fish hoe and the gull flew out the win- ENDERLIN BOY HONORED Northfield, Minn., May 26.~(P)— Kenneth Bjork, Enderlin, N. D., will be among St. Olaf college seniors to be graduated June 3 with honors. Bjork will be graduated with cum laude honors. The agile chamois of Europe bal- ances itself upon dizzy mountain peaks, gathering its forefeet into @ space of but a few inches. j| less forsaken. Things were just as The living room was {mpossible. Everything was in its place; each chair, and cushion precisely ar- ranged. The hearth was swept clean, and there wasn't a book or @ magazine lying about as Natalie was used to having them. Alan stood near the door and glanced around, taking it all in— the change in his home. When Natalie had gone away before, she had left everything cheerful and comfortable. Now there wasn't a flower or a lighted lamp—except those overhead, which he had just now turned on—to welcome him. He snapped the lights out quickly and retreated. His own room was usual there; all but his slippers and bathrobe. He had to get them from the closet himself. Not always, but quite often, Ni je had them out for him. Suddenly Alan realized that he was missing the creature comforts “It isn’t up to me to get this mess straightened out; {t's up to Natalie,” he told himself. “ind FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: beg her to come back, things will go on as they were before, and that's impossible, Perhaps I'd bet- ter wait.a day or two before writ- ay come to her senses had time to think it He closed the desk with a bang. But it did not shut out the first sound of the telephone, ringing in the hall below. Alan wondered, as he went down, how many of Nata- lie’s friends knew that sbe bad left him. It wasn’t like her to spread the news, he granted. But she might have told Gladys. He hoped this was not someone calling to offer condolence, or a chance to at- tend a party and forget. He was not in a mood for it, he thought trri- tably, and reached for the receiver. (To Be Continued) It's easier to provide for the inner man than for the outer woman.