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

| o .-President and Publisher becription Rates Payable tp Advance di)E EEE |] EEeer a a E entitled to the use dispatches credited to it or is newspaper SS a ‘ights of republication of all other matter herein are (Official City State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS CHICAGO NEW YORE BOSTON e One Worth While ‘There are weeks on the American calendar and still other weeks. As the calendar makers know it, a week is a unit of time composed of seven days and the term is used to denote relationship with other time. ‘American business, however, has made of the week something entirely different, When one speaks of & week he sometimes feels that he has to explain he is old-feshioned and is not referring to whatever the cur- rent promotional effort may be. ‘There are weeks for the observance of this, and weeks for the observance of that. Some of the ideas which the weeks present are interesting. Others have as their only merit whatever advantage accrues to the systems or industries promoting them. However, every so often a “week” comes along which is different from the rest and which deserves special at- tention. National fire prevention week, to be celebrated from October 5 to 11, is such a one. During that week every THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER anyone who could have done better under similar cir- cumstances. Racing in the Old Days Now that Sir Thomas Lipton’s final effort to put the world’s fastest yacht under his own flag has failed, and ed once more, it can hardly be treason or héresy to re- Consider this last yacht race, for instance: millions of dollars were spent, and hundreds of thousands of care- fully chosen words were spattered over newspaper pages throughout the world~merely to discover that one deli- cate and costly contrivance of steel, wood and canvas This knowledge may be worth having; but an earlier day saw races under sail that were races, and knew how to glory in them. The ‘deep sea skippers of the fifties of the last century reached the all-time high wa- ter mark in nautical contests, and it is hardly the fault of Sir Thomas and Mr. Vanderbilt if one’s mind automat- ically deserts their gay regatta for the titanic combats of the old days. There were the tea clippers, for instance; slim, long- sparred cargo vessels built for speed, that raced all the way from China to Liverpool, and dared death to do it. Once six clippers set sail from a Chinese port for Liver- pool, resolved to make a race of it. They slid down the China sea, past Java Head and down into the Indian ocean, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and came cracking up the Atlantic—and, at the end, the winner had a margin of precisely 12 minutes over the ship that came in second! ‘Then there were the races in the California trade, with American clippers striving to beat one another on the long run from San Francisco to New York. Their skip- pers had world-wide reputation for their daring; they cracked on sail in a'gale of wind with the slogan, “what she can’t carry she may drag”; they rounded Cape Horn in mid-winter, with the sea full of floating ice cakes and @ 60-mile gale blowing for weeks at a time; and now and then the victor, reaching New York, waited in vain for his opponent to come into port. There were great speed'records then, too; a ship like the Sovereign of the Seas, for example, could reel off 20 knots, hour after hour, and did it as part of the job and not just as a stunt. All of those races, in fact, were in the line of duty. Speed was essential, and the ship-de- signers and shipmasters provided it without counting the cost. : branch of industry, every division of the commercial! ay of that is over; now, and has been for decades. world, every organization, association and soclety, publi-| ut the struggle between the Entetprise and the Sham- cations, churches and schools are expected to join in| rock recalls it, somehow—and makes one long for the the work of promoting fire prevention as a means of Fe-| o14 days, ducing the tremendous loss of life and,property which occurs annually in the United States from uncontrolled Suppression and the Press flames. The action of the government of Ontario in placing a Fire prevention week is one which every citizen really! news ban on the Toronto Star.as ‘a measure of reprisal can observe in a definite way. In the hundreds of | ror the Star's action in refusing to retract.a certain news movements and “weeks” which are called to our atten-| story about the cabinet's reorganization will interest tion, the average citizen can do little to participate. He | newspaper editors below the border as well as in Canada. might buy a bale of cotton, eat an apple on'demand, or! just how great the ‘provocation was in this case is send flowers to his mother-in-law, but it would mean | not clear, at this distance. Nevertheless, it can he.said relatively little to him whether or not he did so. that any government—national, provincial or municipal With fire prevention week, however, the situation 1s} _tnet tries to gag a newspaper is taking a serious step, reversed, Everyone must live somewhere and, wherever! 4 step moreover which can hardly énd in anything but he lives, he can take the trouble to analyze possible | ranure, : causes of fire and check up on them. If one lives in ®/ ‘The thing has been tried before, and it has never house, he can make sure that the basement is clean and} worked, A live newspaper will get the news regardless free from refuse which might possibly sustain spontane- | of opposition; and in the end the agency that tries to ous combustion. If his electric wiring is unsafe he CAM | suppress it suffers trom a recoil of its own autocratic have it attended to, If he lives in an apartment or | methods, 5 building, he can make sure as to what he would do in |. case of fire to save his own life and the lives of members of his family. The point of it all is that fire is a thing which will use up a great deal of prevention. Against it one can never be too well prepared. ‘The great majority of disastrous fires are the result of carelessness, ignorance and neglect. These things, trans- lated into licking tongues of flame, cost this nat a huge sum annually in life and treasure. (Mott Pioneer Press) Fire prevention week is at these enemies of| All over the nation, the public schools are again in the public and personal good. For that reason it is one | full swing. Shortly the colleges will begin their annual of noteworthy merit. session. The.greatest of all American industries, educa~ tion, is running on full time again. And besides, the observance of fire-prevention week | “x, lore than 25,000,000 pupils are enrolled this year in the now may be the means of preventing a funeral tomor- f America, under nearly 800,000 teachers, row. y an average salary of $100 a month, a alone of more than one billion + to which almost another billion must be Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published with- gut regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Schooldays The Turning Road Politics is a road with many peculiar twists and turns. Not the strangest among them is the fact that the ” Hoover administration, triumphantly elected in 1928 with gs an overwhelming majority, now appears to feel itself on the defensive. at Washington have been multiplying. There have been other straws in the wind, too. Re- cently the Republican National committee sent out a pamphlet warning against the devilish plots which were! gc! being hatched by a publicity man in the hire of the Democratic national committee. This evil genius is sup- Posed to “put into the mouths” of Democratic leaders all the unkind things they say about the Republican ad- ministration. There have been other statements, some | o¢ European Friction (Sioux County Pioneer-Arrow) are not jingoes but conserva- ive note the present day trend of committee, It is published in support of the Hoover | thought in Europe and judge the future probabilities by record, of course, but is noteworthy in that it is a fairly ‘The Briand plan for a United States of Europe met temperate and not too biased statement of the work with a discouraging reception. On every side there ure done during the first 16 months of the Hoover adminis- | the potentialities which make for trouble. tration. An open-minded man rarely gets all his information | course, means friction with France. The from one side of any question which may be in dispute, | not given up their so-called claim to the Danzig corridor and -yet.this document leaves very few loopholes for|taken away from in the’ Versailles treaty. the Democrats. Where achievements have been note- | S8Y worthy it, of course, says so gladly. Where results have The party pledges Usted in the booklet are 35 in num- | and ber. In one cclumn is set forth what the pledge was. In’ the next adjoining column is a recital of what has been done by way of redeeming the pletige. ‘ Only one plank, that relating to “the Negro,” stands alone without some record of accomplishment to keep - tt company. The latter plank pledged the a tion to support an anti-lynching law “so that the ful] fluence of the federal government may be wielded exterminate this hideous crime.” As yet nothing been done about it. But about such things as public economy, finance and People of this nation have given him. Yew persons are hailing Mr. Hoover now in the same fulsome terms which were used in 1928, That is not to be expected. But it also cannot be denied that any of the a Hf may ) BusKsess Today Is the ‘Anniversary of THE HOLY ALLIANCE On Sept. 26, 1815, the Holy Alliance was formed: between Russia, Austria and Prussia. The league was formed after the fall of Napoleon, at the insistence of Alexander I of Russia, to regulate the relations of the states of Chris- tendom by the principles of Christian charity. i Alexander drew up the document, which was signed by the three rulers in Paris. In additfon to the original signatories, Naples, Sardinia, France and Spain acceded to the treaty. It received the commendation, but not the signature of the Prince Regent of Great Britain. The document was formally made public the following year. As formed in the mind of Alexander, the league was the scheme of an idealist, but it} restored absolt Apart from ** * “Few authors are equipped for com- petent self - criticism.” — Heywood 26, 1980 Scour SSN <a SIN NE ap ee |4G!.. Fi Dinner: apple, five-minute cabbage, combi- nation salad of small green peas, cu- more Teplaces ground transport.— Colonel Lindbergh, -* *& *& There is. no standard for beautiful Painter of gitls—Harrison Fisher, ** * making New York.—E. F. Brown, director ood NEA'SERVICE:/nc3 aay: 4 ERNE m glanced up and said, Adamso! ite |“Oh, hello, Rorimer,” without re- be- | Moving his cigar from his mouth. rapidly an Scream ‘comtraet | largest studios. Anne li two other girls, MONA. Hetle red EV: EY, a quiet little gt who at times ‘is very .bitt who has had a Perience. Evi despond: re PAUL COLLIER, ¢ writ daily movie column for a po Anne turas the contract down. under at Dan, who is CONTINENTAL PI ICTURES, has had a row with th ager and wants to leaves He gets bes] love ex- a and ape ex- Ca ete ar ee and Eva only rarely, and mother reason for “Hello, Mr. Adamson.” Dan waited for an invitation to ‘sit-down, and Adamson, with only the slightest movement of his head, indicated a chair. vacation, Rorimer?” Dan said, “Yes, thanks,” not lik- ing the othér’s way of saying “va- cation.” Adamson’s cigar shifted from one ‘side of his mouth to the other. “I wanted to talk to you. You, got kind of hot-headed a while back and tore up your contract. I could have taken advantage of you if I had wanted to, and let you go.” taking advantage ee I rather invited it, didn't “Still high and. mighty, aren't you?” Adamson sneered, and Dan reorganizing’ around. here—getting rid of some of the dead timber and—” . DAN left the following. night for was'gay looking, of heavy figured silk, and Anne wired him nse oe not wanting to work for you. My fuse thanks. He wrote to her: | “Why shouldn’t I have sent it? I can’t wear it, can I?—and I :|comtract was thesonly thing that kept me here.” $ ‘The other's smile was unpleas- couldn’t help buying it. You can't|S%t | “Well, it won't keep you any go through those shops without | DSF; ‘wanting to buy everything you see. You're through—right “I've been living the Hfe of like a rubber golfing, horseback. riding along a bridle path that skirts the ocean, and eating at lit- tle out-of-the-way restaurants where ue and Dan grinned at him and “I think I spoiled his enjoy- ”* he told Collier that evening. Can't we do something /«7 jet him think he was doing me about that?” And to Paul Collier he wrote: '% great big favor.” “Well, I hope he was,” sald Col- “There's @ fellow on the News an Irishman—who has the swell-| Martin est line of Japanese stories you ever heard. Remind me, when I get back, to tell you the one about the chap who broke his leg. It’s ‘@ knockout. I. wish I could send you a nice lungful of 8. F. fog. Has Continental blown up yet? You might give my love to Adsmson.’ He returned to Los Angeles on & Monday morning and was met by Collier, who drove him out to the Continental lot, “Well, old-timer, what's new?” “Ob, not much,” Paul told “I understand, though, that Adam- son is going to stick.” “That's sure too bad,” Dan said.|his news. “Well, I had @ hunch,” “He' won't last long: The Law- fons are not that dumb.” forenoon Adamson sent to ‘ain oftce. "Dan ‘was his enter, to see of Dan wasjhis fe halt’ A ing s6me such message. “What are you going to do’ "He thought, on his way in: “Well, {she repeated. here goes,” “Oh, I don't know. Keep trying. 2 “Well, have a nice time on your |_ I suppose, and seo if I can write anything that anybody wants. If not,” and he smiled again, “I can go back to New York, I suppose, and take up where I left off.” Anne said quickly, “Oh, I hope not; Dan,” and he wanted to know why not. “Would it make any difference to you if I left?” She was half angry at the ques- tion. ““Now you're being school- boyish,” she told him, color rising in her cheeks. “You know better than to ask that. eee s° Dan said he was sorry. “Ques- tion's withdrawn!” And he spoke conciliatingly and changed the subject, talked of interesting things he had done on his trip ‘north. Mona and Eva came in while they were talking, and Mona im- ‘mediately sat down and demanded to know “all the scandal.” And when Dan laughingly in- formed her that he was now “un- attached,” she cried out: “Well, if You two aren't a pair! Anne re fuses to sign a contract and you tear one up! Some people don't know when they’re lucky—do they, Eva?” ‘ But Eva merely smiled and of- a nothing at Grand United on the subject of her contract. ; “Not one word. I guess Mr. Johnson really meant take it or leave it.” “He's just playing poker, Anne. Is the picture finished yet?” *} -- almost.” 'O ‘weeks later Anne called Rorimer with exciting news. See has happened at once, ” r “One thing at a time,” he said. “First, did you get a new con- tract?” “Yes.” Now go on with f told it with an eager Paul Collier's had brought ni clippings a BL oRSeee? eyeeeee rfiter i trolled fillet of sole, string beans, | wise, you should confine your eating salad of tomatoes, celery and lettuc2,| of oranges to one meal, of * But it’s great news, Anne; I'll have to tell Johnny Riddle.” “Please do. Oh, I feel so happy about it I can hardly talk! Don’t you think I ought to become one of Johnny Riddle’s clients?” “Well, Johnny's advice was 0. K,, wasn’t it? I approve on one condition—that you don’t permit him to‘get sentimental. If you won't let me, I certainly won't ‘stand for Johnny.” eee HE Joyous laugh was still echo- ing in his ear as he hung up and moved over to a window, to stand there, hands jammed deep in Dockets, thinking. He thought back to the night that he had met Anne Winter, and he could not help smiling a little fronically at the strange reversal in their positions that a few: short months had brought about—Anne many as you desire, for instance, at If you think the Scotch are closest race, look at what is going on in the National League, xe * Iceland, it is revealed, has had onl) We're willing to concede that Eddie Cantor is a great comedian when he. comes out with a wisecrack on the $20,000 worth. of jewelry his wife lost the other day. (opyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) Governor Proclaims Fire Week Observance % ‘ a