The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 4

BE EIEICMS TARPLADS a es SPR Sh PEND. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE AB independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDES1 NEWSPAPER (Batablisheo 1873) however, at public exhibitions. Lives of innocent by- standers can too easily be endangered. Furthermore, it is bad businese—which, probably, is what hit the makers of airplanes. It does little good to tell the public that flying is safe when a squadron of Bis- | stunters can go out and, by doing a dizzy series of flip- Member Acdit Bureao of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ted to (Officia) City State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives MALL, SPENCER ol det Vigilance Is the Price Fewer accidents took place at highway grade crossings in the first six months of 1930 than in any correspond- ing period since 1925, This was also true as to fatalities and persons injured. ‘This was shown by reports for that period just received from the railroads by the Safety Section of the American Railway association. <a eosciaaaiuels tats ‘The reduction compared with 1925 5) of the fact there has been an increase in that period of approximately 33 per cent in the number of automobiles asesits at highway grade crossings totaled 2,335 for the first six months this year, the smallest for any cor- responding period since 1925, when there were 2,276. Fatalities resulting from such accidents totaled 962 in the first half of 1930, which also was the lowest number for any corresponding period since 1925, when there were 941, while persons injured s0 far this year totaled 2,685, pared with 2,662 in 1925, Pa number of accidents at highway grade crossings during the first six months in 1930 was @ reduction of 337 compared with the same period last year, while there also was'a reduction of 158 in the number of fatalities compared with the first six months of 1929. The num- ber of persons injured in the first six months of this year was @ reduction of 346 compared with the same period last fr. Tverything 1s being done by the railroads to bring about the highest degree of safety possible at highway grade crossings, $28,445,680 having been spent in 1929 by the rail carriers alone to protect human life at such crossings. Of that amount, $25,113,338 were spent for the separation of grades, while $580,041 were spent for the abandonment or removal ef highway grade crossings. In addition, the railroads during the past year spent $2,742, 401 for the purchase and installation of mechanical and other devices designed to warn motorists of approaching trains and for gates, signs and other things intended to bring about increased safety at highway grade crossings. ‘The railroads have also forysome years been conduct- ing an intensive campaign in an effort to impress upon the public the necessity for the greatest care possible being exercised in passing over highway grade crossings. ‘All of these things, taken together, have resulted in decreasing the tremendous toll of life which this form of “competition” between the railroad engine and the au- tomobile has taken. If one looks for the answer\in brief it is organization and attention to the problem in hand. At the same time, the number of accidents occurring on the highway has been increasing. The death toll from this source continues to mount. ‘The cure for this situation is the same as that being applied with regard to accidents at railroad crossings, but different persons-must apply it. Every automobile driver is responsible for his own safety and the safety of ariyone who may be riding with him, If every auto- mobile driver kept that fact in mind—all of the time— the statistics covering highway accidents would show a big change. . « A Hoofer on the Air Practically anybody can tell you that this is an age of miracles. Unfortunately, however, the miracles some- times seems to get a little bit perverted. ‘The other evening, for example, a radio chain threw & program through the air to cities all over the country. Eager listeners tuned in, becoming participants in this most amazing of modern miracles—and were rewarded by hearing some quite invisible hoofer perform a tap- dance, far off in the confines of a New York studio. Now tap-dancing, of course, is very fine in its way; but there is something rather incongruous about the thought of thousands of radio listeners, scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, sitting in their arm- chairs, drawing upon one of the greatest inventions of the age, and listening to the meaningless click-clack of a pair of shoes rapping on a wooden floor. 4 It suggests, in fact, that our marvelous inventions are doing us no good for the simple reason that we don't know how to use them. To have the faith that could move mountains would be magnificent; but it would be something less than mag~- nificent if the possessor used this great force, let us say, merely to raise bunkers for a miniature golf course. In the same way, the invention of the radio hardly seems worth while if its net result is to enable the frantic thumpings of @ tap-dancer to go on the air from coast to coast. N Very likely this is worrying too much about nothing. ‘Yet the whole business is a symptom, and symptoms are often important. ‘With the discoveries and inventions of science during the last few decades, mankind could almost completely remake the world, reform human society and eliminate @ tremendous proportion of the misery and discomfort that has been humanity's lot since time began. Instead of making the most of these things, however, ‘we ate complacently perverting them to uses that.are either dangerous or downright. silly. _ The lore of the cheniist is turned into an instrument by which we are very apt to exterminate ourselves in the big war that comes along. ‘The of the air is diverted into the seme chan- nel, and given &,side-line of useless “stunts” to keep us flops, persuade the average man that aviation is after all a game for daredevils. Traffic and Health Zaro Agha found conditions for life in his native Turkey highly favorable, and reached the age of 156 years without trouble; or so, at least, his press agents insist. However, visiting America to see and be seen, he promptly falls victim to modern traffic congestion and gets hit by an automobile before he can even get past New York. . It doesn’t do to inspect each incident of daily life too closely, in the hope of finding a moral. Nevertheless, there is something rather apt about Zaro Agha’s mishap. ‘The ordinary conditions of health, sanitation and medi- cal care in this country are almost infinitely better than they are in Turkey; but a centenarian is likely to find that we have raised up new perils to counterbalance things. Zaro Agha may be freer from the menace of disease here than at home—but if he had stayed at home he at least would not have been endangered by auto- mobiles. / Editorial Comment Editorials. printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published with- out regatd to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. America in the Air (Detroit Free Press) There is pardonable satisfaction in the statement given out by the League of Nations communications and transport section at Geneva, which reveals that of the 40,000,000 miles flown by freight and passenger carrying planes in 1929, nearly one-half is credited to this country. One inclined to criticize the United States for its frequently charged lack of air-mindness is cheered by the knowledge that the mileage here over the period covered in the report was almost four times as great as that of either France or Germany—quadrupled the totals of Great'Britain and Italy— until the map is consulted. Then the difference in distances in the United States and the European countries which were in the front rank necessitates a slight revision of stand- ards, although it still leaves us in a very creditable position. From London to Paris is practically the same distance as from Detroit to Chicago, which we do not count much of a hop in the matter of miles. London to Berlin is a trifle further than from Detroit to New York. . To approach a trip'across the United States from east to west it would be necessary to journey from Leningrad to Lisbon, and back to Madrid, To use another com- parison, Germany, with only a trifle more than a quar- ter of the mileage rolled up here, carried freight and ‘Anniversary of | On Oct. 3, 1854, William ©. Gorgas, amed for eliminating yellow in Havana and Panafna, was born at Mobile, Ala, After he graduated from the Uni- versity of the South and from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, he was appointed a surgeon in the army. Sent to Havana, Cuba, following the Spanish-American war, Gorgas, as 1918, has retired. He died in 1920, a year after he accepted a cont ree lor passengers to ten different countries on regular sched- this ules. If the flight records established in the United States were compressed into any one of the European countries noted, the multiplicity of machines in the air all the time would be a source of amazement even to the more air-minded in those lands. Diversity (Emmons County Record) , Ordinarily, when one speaks of “diversifying,” the audience naturally thinks of mixed farming. That is just what it means, but the accepted plan is a rotation of clover, corn, grain, barley, etc., with stock to feed, cows for milk and hens for eggs and sale. That is the generally accepted scheme of diversified farming. Once in a while some fellow sidesteps the general plan. ‘and conceives and executes a diversified plan of ‘is or her own., For instance, note the diversifying plan of Mr. Splonskowski dock. He put in 25 acres of potatoes on summer {allowéd, land ‘this year... What is the result? He is digging about 65 bushels of potatoes off every acre, and selling them at $1.45 per bushel. Take your pencil and figure it. Of course if this had happened to be a big potato year, the story would have been different. But how many potatoes has the average farmer got for sale this year? There are many actual dirt farmers who will have to buy their potatoes this year. Few back lot farmers in town have raised their winter supply. This of course, has been a poor potato year, but still those who have planted carefully, cultivated continuously, used sprays as necessity demanded, etc., have been successful in raising their spuds, Beans. How many of us have raised beans this year | —that is, enough for the family table, not to say any- thing about a supply for sale? This was a good bean year. And beans will be worth good money. Good old navy beans. Five acres of beans this year, well cared for, would probably bring more clear cash than any 50 acres of wheat grown, Melons, too, would have been @ bet. A fellow from Ft. Yates was in the city last aturday with a few fine melons weighing from ten to twenty-five pounds each, His little load probably netted him from $10 to $15. What would he have done had he raised ten acres? Democracy and Efficiency (National Republic) gis Former Governor Lowden dec! ina speech at the University of Virginia conference on political problems, that democracy must prove itself as efficient as autoc- racy, or it must be succeeded by autocracy. Governor Lowden. was, of course, making a plea for more effi- ciency in democracy, Pure democracy is necessarily inefficient. For that reason the framers of our Constitution rejected it in favor of representative republicanism. For years pséudo-reformers have been actively and successfully engaged in an effort to break down representative government in favor of “pure” democracy. Political parties have become powerful agencies for the organiz- ation of public sentiment, and were at one time co! ducted on the representative principle. This was aban- doned for the popeie primary, which has turned out to be a formidable weapon for destroying the efficiency and representative character of political parties. Even representative government is not potentially as efficient as autocracy. Dictatorship is doubtless the most efficient form of government, assuming that the dictator is honest, wise and patriotic. ‘is is an unwar- ranted assumption. In the hands of selfish men autoc- racy becomes a means of fyranny, It would be unsafe to surrender control to such an agency. In our repre- sentative republican government the founders of our government sought the golden mean between authority id liberty. They presupposed intelligent interest in attention to the government on the part of leaders and voters, In the absence of a sense of duty on the part of voters and leaders any kind of government will, of course, prove a failure, Social and “liberals” are now busily engaged in try- ing to wear down the faith of thé American people Tn representative government. ._They blame on govern- ment evils and abuses due entirely to the failure of the preps to make proper use/of the sovereignty placed "We need'an old-fashioned 1 of i e ne an old-fashioned revival patriotism in America. There betterment of government must begin. The goal of government is not efficiency at the sacrifice of liberty. The citizen who becomes a slave of the master state is just as well off as the inmate of a jail or alms-house. His daily physical wants may be satis- I'd never thought of know what I mean? You see, when I came out here and raj now under contract to UNITED, one of the largest ste- Dan formerly was unter con- {ract himself at CONTINENTA ar more ber al Anne lives with two other MONA MORRISON an EVA LEY. Mona among other thought ‘Righty of te ana for a long ‘time, t vine te 488 end si ture. Coll lines i meen will be ea- zg NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXI g | | Ssecrrpicad had some slight ob- dections at first but these were overcome by the persuasive Collier, and the next morning Dan present ed himself at the offices of Grand United and asked for Mr. Phillips. There was some difficulty im get- ting word to him at once, for Mr. Phillips was well protected as be- fitted one of his importance; but Paul Collier's |, on which he had crinene ry ‘words, turned the you're a friend of Paul Col- " ‘the scenario es 388 piece ii : [ s E 3 iH 44 z = so 3 : $ oe fe Rg fk . Ad te : +3 it Hy i : “We live togéther,” Dan said. “Paul's a great fellow. He's been pretty nice to us.” Phillipe set- tled back in his chair and looked 8 fied in such ap institution, but life is something more “what we shall eat and wherewithal we shall be Ninety-five per cent of all the written and spoke: word output in this coungry is devoted, in begets ait times. ‘The printing press reaches {ts apotheosis in tabloid | articles Mewspapers, cheap magazines and idiotic best-seller fic- «fat . | ple of Representative government is not a failure. In far as it is a failure the criticism should be bestowed where it » and where no politician wants to put it—right on the indifference and selfishness of the who fail to use. effectively the instrumentalities for producing government, And the peo- the establishment of free be weak enough to trade. ernment, are not going to of dictators. doe Bk Eobigoe SAR, and Dan stated big mis sion, “I've been writing for plotures |; since the first of the Pie. § i eet i he s 55 good the United States, after their long struggle for |.| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930 HEREZ«TO YOUR: - ? EADCKH —George Bernard We sre going to notity the loafers that the University of Wisconst Py ri i is Big f 3.8 H a ag8 tal ge vail gue ER i : / i : i I 1 i F AL HE F il i i re g E | i B : 5 3 il Eis fy fe 4 5 edit é 3 & i apts E 5 yellow cheese (%-pound portions). Steamed earroté, escalloped celery. licenses were issued to non-residents last year. enue was $91,583. 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