The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1930, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Pleasure of Giving Zach year when the odors of balsam and spruce start 4 Spice the air and starshine and tinsel glow light up| our humdrum streets, the question arises shall be-! whiskered old Santa Claus go back to the North pole, | stay there forever and be forgotten, or shall we let wide-eyed youngsters watch for him the night before Christmas? | The reason the question arises each year {s that always, regardless of the times, there are a large num- ber of stockings which will be flat and limp on Christ- mas morning if the business of providing Christmas ; cheer is left to those who normally would have that joy. | Sickness, disease and various forms of misfortune are with us always, in good times and bad. There is always the prospect that thousands of little boys and girls will go to bed anticipating the dolls and horns and round | red drums which Santa will have brought them when | they awake in the morning, and that these same chil- dren will open their eyes in hurt surprise when they find that Santa Claus didn’t come. | A child’s heart is so wistfully shy. It doesn't share its longings. It paints its own pictures of the toy shop | in the far-off silver land where Vixen and Blitzen and all the other reindeer are waiting impatiently for the gift-bringing pilgrimage to the streets where children live. When a child is forgotten, he can’t understand. His mind puzzles the problem again and again. Per- haps Santa Claus didn’t have his address. Maybe he didn’t get his letter. And then he decides that it is strange that so many other children weren't forgotten. And 50, sometimes, unless there is someone who is very patient and understanding who will explain, a! child decides that the world doesn’t play fair. Santa Claus has his favorites. The child pulls on his giftless tenced certainly was light cnough, and his attorneys If, as Gummer’s lawyers contend, he was imprisoned | by reason of the skill and trickery of the prosecuting | | that skill shall some day rise up to confound the man! who condemned an innocent youth to prison in order | to enhance his own fame and glory. j The trouble with it all is that so few of us are sure.) | We lack the certainty which brings conviction. The pardon board could not be expected to grant the appli- cation for clemency. Gummer was duly tried and con- victed, and it is a very serious matter to set aside that | fact. New evidence was ofiered, we are informed, but it came too late. What would be effective with a jury could hardly be expected to sway a pardon board. For that body to grant a pardon, it would almost be nec- | essary for the murdered girl to rise from the dead and should be condemned for bringing the matter up. i} attorney who tried the case, we can only wish that (4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930 herself give testimony as to the slayer. Such is the way of pardon boards. i But the Gummer case, if it does nothing else, serves | one purpose. It makes us think as to whether our | system of administering justice is all it should be. all! of us admire brilliant lawyers, and yet we cannot escape , the feeling that justice should be impartial. The skill of an attorney—or the lack of it—should not be the determining factor as to whether a guilty man goes free. Neither should legal skill—or the lack of it—de- cide if an innocent man shall be convicted. i | Not Uncle Sam’s Job President Hoover hit the nail squarely where nails’ are supposed to be hit when he remarked that the sup-} pression of racketeering. and the war on gangsterism! generally, are jobs for states and cities to handle and/ not for the federal government. His statement was made timely by the fact that in/ Chicago, during the last few months, the federal district} attorney has proceeded with a good deal of success against gangsters who failed to pay the proper amount! of income tax. Gentlemen whom Chicago had been ut-/ | terly unable even to bother slightly are now awaiting! transportation to prison; and because of this the idea spread that the federal government could handle the/ whole gang mess better than the local authorities could| hope to. f Perhaps Pigsident Hoover's prompt and statement will restore a little sanity. | After all, what is the big problem tn any gang-infested city? Isn't it the fact that an organization cf high-} binders is able to commit all the crimes on the calendar | with utter impunity, unhampered by the police no mat-| ter how bold and insolent they Become? Is that the sort of situation that can be corrected by having the government at Washington step in and ask the chief crooks if perchance they did not lie a little when they made out their income tax returns? Take, for an.example, the case of Jack Guzik, one of Capone's bright and shining lights. Guzik has been sentenced to tie penitentiary because he did not pay the} proper taxes on a three-year income of more than a million dollars. Now the startling and horrifying thing in this case is not that this Guzik cheated the govern- ment out of its taxes; it is the fact that he was able to get an income like that through illegal means. Prosecut- ing him for failing to pay his taxes does no good at all if the door is still left open for him, and men like him, to continue to earn such incomes by breaking the law. “What we need,” says the president, “is a more wide- spread public awakening to the failure of some local vigorous} stockings, an empty feeling in his heart, and a tight little pain in his throat. And there is nothing in all the world so pitiful as a little child who has been disillusioned. ‘This year, as every year, a good many children will | be disillusioned unless the rest of us who are in position to do so get busy and take a vow that this thing shall not be. i Distinctly it is up to those who are fortunately situ- ated. If they are careless and selfish, they can let things take their natural course. They can let misery come to trusting little hearts, or they can, with very little effort and a very small expenditure of time and money, make sunshine glow where only darkness would have been. It is a tribute to Bismarck as a city of human beings that the various organizations interested in Christmas cheer have resolved that there be no empty stockings in this city this year. They have assumed the job of seeing that no Bismarck child wonders, on the birth- day of the Christ child, how it came that Santa Claus lost his address—and remembered the child next door. Service clubs, Association of Commerce, American Legion, Red Cross, Salvation Army, all will engage in & work which will pay rich dividends in satisfaction and happiness. Let those who are indifferent be so. They will be only a few and they will not count anyhow. The heart of the average Bismarck resident is large, and the result of these Christmas endeavors will prove it. ,And among the happiest of all will be those who have given the most. When one passes a certain age, his pleasure at Christmas time comes in giving rather! than in receiving. So few of us have real physical needs that the spiritual benefit and happiness which accompany the act of giving may be had by most of us if we really want it. It is safe to say that hundreds of Bismarck residents will the better enjoy their Christmas dinners because of the knowledge that there are no barren tables just around the corner. Our Christmas pleasures will be the sweeter because of the knowledge that every other home in Bismarck and Burleigh county pas seen some sunshine, too. There is selflessness in giving—and selfishness, too. Few things make one feel so much like a regular human being as the knowledge that he has done a good deed and has brightened the life of a child. ‘To those who have never tried this method of get- ting a thrili, we recommend it. It works. ‘Those who have, in the past, experienced the fun of giving where giving counts, would not miss the oppor- tunity for the world, , ‘ The Gummer Case After eight years of almost complete obscyrity, the name of William Gummer leaps back to the front page once more. ‘ To Gummer goes the infamy of being North Dakota's most notorious murderer. The courts of jystice have found him guilty. Yet there are hundreds of North Dakotans who feel that he is innocent. Many, of course, feel that Gummer was rightfully convicted of the foul murder of which he was accused. governments to protect their citizens from murder, racketeering, corruption and other crimes.” That is precisely it.. Let us hope that the remark is taken to heart. : Business news continues to show bright spots fully as important as the pickup in retail trade occasioned by the Christmas season. A leading firm in the sparkplug industry reports that replacement sales in 1930 will equal those of 1929 and that new business from automobile manufacturers is sufficient to justify heavier production for the remain- der of this year. . This may fairly be taken as an indication that the motor industry has got its wheels on the road of prog- ress and is heading forward. Editorial Comment \ to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- une’s policies. Mother Jones (Washington Star) Mother Jones belonged to an era that is happily past. So the last, peaceful years of her rich life found her a gentle old lady whose former role as a flaming Joan of Are was more of a tradition than an actual asso- ciation of memories with herself. Like other traditions, it gathered charming fancies and added to her deserved Tenown as a crusader from the r: who led the cause of embattled labor to many a victory. It was her reward that, living a round hundred years, she saw many of with success, and her “boys,” grown with her to a ripe old age, looked back with fond recollection to cam- paigns that now are memories. Mother Jones served as symbol. She embraced no clear-cut philosophy relat- ing to the order of things as they should be. Her choice was merely between right and wrong—with right always on the side of the under-dog. She comforted the man who was down and inspirited him, and her presence ¢verywhere brought with it a new determination and a will to fight on. There have been women like her before, and they will come after her. Her peaceful death ac- centuated by contrast the turmoil in which she spent most of her life, removing the bitterness and hate and leaving only the sweet memories of a good fighter. Pennies to Save Lives (Minneapolis Journal) Minheapolis only recently oversubscribed its Com- munity Fund and showered enough money into street kettles to provide full Thanksgiving baskets for the needy, Minneapolis today is doing well, as it should do, by the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America, in their quest for the wherewithal to carry Christmas cheer into the homes of the unfortinate. But there remains one other obligation for Minne- apolis, and it is an important one—more important this year, perhaps. than ever before. We mean the obligation to buy lavishly of the Christmas Seals, whose sale helps to finance the year round program of tuberculosis pre- vention work. This prevention work in the last nineteen years has reduced by fifty-nine per cent the tuberculosis death Co ANINGS REAL Christmas Sock! =| a — | MacCumber © + By ALICE M. WALKER Miss Victoria Hefta, instructor at the MacCumber school, - dismissed her puvils at three o'clock Wednes- day afternoon, treating everyone concerned :o a well earned Thanks- giving vacation. School will open again on Monday, November 31. presented each of their employes with a fine Thanksgiving turkey, which was gratefully geceived by all. Owing to heavy winds and much loose snow, the roads throughout the surrounding country have been badly blogked. ie highway between Wil- ton and MacCumber was practically my ble for cars and coal trucks until, Wednesday afternoon, when the “caterpillar” came through “and o tot it. Thus far, it has remained clear. G, T. Gerow, pore manager for the Washburn Lignite coal company, spent Thanksgiving with his mather in_ Minneapolis. Henry Olenberger, who had the misfortune of crushing some fingers several weeks ago, is very much im- afige He informs us that he hopes © be able to resume work soon. Ted Hentz, who was badly injured last February, and since recovery has been employed at the Truax-' “strip,” is again suffering from eed of his injuries and unable to er ee | §S.W. Burleigh By KATIE D. STEWART There were no church services held in the Stewartsdale church Sunday on account of the snow. Helen Becknall, who has been stay- ing with Anna NicHblson for the past two weeks left for h:r home in Bis- marck Wednesday. Earl Snyder was a business caller at the John Stewart home Monday. ©. G. Davenport was a business caller in Bismarck Wednesday. Fri Glum and D. W. Stewart hauled firewood from the river bot- toms Friday. Philip Burtsch is hauling hay for Agnes Stewart. Don Nicholson, J. A. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. C. L, Hauser, Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. John Welch, Rev. and Mrs. Gulson and Norman Stewart were shopping in the Capital City Wednesdays cknall called at his parental home in Bismarck Saturday. The Ladies Missionary society of the Stewartsdale church had planned on having their Pogulas: praise services at the church ie evening before Thanksgiving but on account of the bee rrpeirlieger pl ope: tae wees Dinner guests at the John Stewart home Thanksgiving day were Mr. and Mrs. lauser and sons, Sam. Pritzkau and Norman Stewart. Chas. Snyder is staying with his folks near Sterling. ey are quar- antined with scarlet fever and Mr. Snyder went up to help care for them. Ed Becknall and Norman Stewart were dinner guests of Anna Nicholson 1a) e—¢ the movements in which she joined as a leader crowned | Sunday. Frankley Buckley beige a few days with his brother, Bert, last week. Frank Glum was a‘ caller at the O. G. Davenport home, Saturday. D. W. Stewart visited at the C. L. BEAVERS HAVE A SPLIT NAIL ON THE SECOND TOES OF THEIR. HINO FEET WHICH rate in Minteapolis. Even so, deaths from this cause in the city still occur on an average of one every thirty- three hours—and nearly all of them preventable. That is to say, death from tuberculosis is normally preventable when the trouble is caught in its incipiency. And catching the trouble in its incipiency is the par- ticular work of the Hernepin County Tuberculosis As- sociation, which must depend largely upon receipts from Christmas Seal sales for the furtherance of its efforts. about it and who have be done. this great majority it is disturbing to hear the that Gummer is innocent. If this claim be true, the man has been cruelly wronged, and the vast majority is warm-hearted enough, honest enough and decent enough, to fight against such injustice. 1f Gummer actually committed the murder, the of life imprisonment to which he was sen- i | ‘Undernourishment, and especially undernourishment in cold weather, makes humans peculiarly susceptible tuberculous infection. Undernourishment the favages of the disease in folk who are already infected without being aware of it. In a winter when some thousands of citizens are on short rations because of unemployment, then, it is highly desirable that there be an adeQuate financing of the work of the Hennepin County Tuberculosis Ass0- ciation. Your few dollars spent for Christmas Seals in the next three weeks may save one or several lives this winter. ‘ 5885, 516,002, 000, 00Q, 00Q 000 TONS The Truax-Trayer coal company | 5 lin Menoken Tuesday. { to Mother Nature’ Hauser and John Stewart homes Sun- | lay. Don Nicholson was a business caller | | PEOPLE’S FORUM | pee: Nov. 30, 1930. Editor of the Tribune: My attention has been called to an article appearing in the Tribune of November 4, headed “Charges Railroads Seek to Influence State Legislature,” under which an account was given of a meeting of motor car- riers in the Prince Hotel in which cne James V. Yarnall charged that the railroads were deliberately foster- ing railroad empleyees’ protective associations. As secretary of one of these said “protective associations,” I wish to come out in vehement denial of Mr. Yarnall's unproved statement. motive is plain; to instill into the thoughts of the legislative represen- tatives _ this ted bi “railroad conse \” idea. Not only I de 4 his. assertion, but I can prove its ttter falsity. This association encompassing the Soo Line territory through North Dakota and Minnesota, and closely connect- ed with similar associations on both the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, is made up entirely of railroad employees, ess and pro- fessional men, as well as merchants ©} of the various communities. To my certain knowledge, all expenses in- curred by these organizations are met ‘by membership dues, and, noth- ing, materially or aie. has been contributed by the companies proper in Support . I charge, Mr. Yarnall, to back ‘up his assertion. As the above mentioned members of these associations are energetic, faxpaying citizens of this great state, it is admittedly far from our aims to DENY aren rgd to secure legis- lative measures to put the hauling of commercial freight on highways maintained by public taxation on a fair competing basis with the rail- roads, the “Pioneer Public Utility of the Northwest.” I trust that you will always see your way clear in the Tribune to piace, all subjects roaerding this con- rersy before your readers in an irtial manner, but that your edi- Policy will always be favorable pro} d_ means of placing the commercial hauling of freight on the pobus highways on a fair competing with the railroads. As one member of the state high- way department aptly said, “If the trucks were to pay for the damage that they do to the roads, they would not be able to haul freight at lower rates than the raili Ye From the taxpayer's standpoint, it is rather a case of “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” is it not? Public high- ways were built at public expense and should be maintained for the convenience of the public. They were never intended for private commer- cial gain. When they are used for the latter purpose, everyone using them must pay an amount equal to the costs of construction and main- tenance. Yours truly, * ‘Steretary, Rail Transportation Association, Enderlin, N. D. - Deposits in Towa state savings banks and trust companies total $516,246,018. s Curio Shop ot His | 5 {SCHOOL NOTES } CHAPIN We Kyat en our third month of school last Frida: vy. Those neither absent nor during that month were: Rogers; Jane Polzin; Pauline and Frances Krush; Mike, Pearl, Zinnia and Anna Adamyk; John, Annie and Pauline Andrusak. Those on the honor roll in s; for the past week were: Pauline an Frances Krush; Willle Rogers; Pearl Adamyk; John Andrusak, and Jane Polzin. Jane received a gold four Le peat weeks, There are now’ three gold stars on the spelling chart. Each of us is try- to one at least. st Thursday we had a holiday, which we all |. When we re- turned to school , three were Mrs. W. Andrusak and Miss Ade- line Miluck visited our school Fri- “Those who received above 90 per cent in tests last week are: Zinnia yk in arithmetic; Glen Pfieffer, Mike ae and Pauline Krush in hist john story; Pearl Adam yk and Frances Krush in ing. The son Citizens’ League held last Wednesday. a social meet ‘The fol ng is an ac for nuts found is for gifts for wi thanks. Pauley The second grade made a Hia- watha poster. % Linda Banttari had 100 per-cent in Spelling this week. We played the Farmer in the Dell on Linda's birthday. Seventh and ith Grade Tillie. Booth was absent jonday becduse of a cold. ighth absent from school Monday and Tuesday. Dorothy Carl Edwards are not back at school because of measles in their family. Bertha was absent from bara last Friday because of a bad ce High School Gordon Olson is back in school, having been absent 18 days because ot measles. There are no absences ne Basketball Game The Wing high school basketball boys played A practiop game with the Tuttle high school boys. Tuttle started the game off two foul shots and a fiel winner. The half ended twelve to eight in Wing's favor. After the sec- fad half. ttle began. 2. see a ene Wagle, of the Wing x le, of ing team, a Duaber of substitu- The first e will be ed with Woodworth Priday if the Toads are a merr: on might be forgotten nt We have a start towards the Xm looking for more which, together with Sent “4 and Cooperation, will mi from Sant every Wing child a possibility. Although the water in the and Antarctic oceans is salty, the ice that forms is free from salinity. industry of the The photographic United States consumes over 150 tons of silver per year. {” Sticker Solution i | Stickler Solution _ TO THE TOY STORE ‘The jumbled leters “OHEOVSORE” Become clear when you use the letter T , four times, as shown above. Although doctors have claimed for some time that diseases are not trees can be ted from grapevines. humans are born human off q character- may in- herit special traits of strength and weakness that either or both parents Possess. This tendency to pass on charac- teristics sometimes undergoes pecul- jar forms and changes. It is just as important fo: i t i bess? all i tardy Willie | OUSIY it star | little difference how we iin E i Hi | dt E hf " i} i | F te ge i & Tt is interesting E i gf 58 Py a 6 B g cy i | 5 8 | 8 H i if it I genera- id hard work. There is a natural tendency to trans- : e § 5 ‘We sometimes notice the pecuttar fact that a man who lives abstemi- becomes old prematurely, and that a man who drinks and smokes heavily and uses little in or no care the selection of his food, lives to a is the rule, it is an live. It be found, however, that heredity important ag parent grandparents were re- markably long ived—probably longer lived than he will become. Parents. owe it to themselves to be as healthy as possible, but they have, perhaps, @ greater debt to their chil- THE INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY | dren when they undertake the re- Children sponsibility of parenthood. brought into the world without their Dr. McCoy will gladly answer Personal questions on health and diet addressed to him, care of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. 2 consent are entitled to the gift from their parents of strong bodies and minds, unhampered with the taint of + disease or weakness. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: M. J. asks: “What is lime water far? Is it good to take when one has boils?” Answer: Lime water is used to come from a combination of outside infection and a thoroughly toxic blood stream. Enlarged Gland Question: R. B. B. writes: “I am twenty-five, and since I was five years old I have had an gland in my neck. It is now about the size of a pea. Causes me no trouble, but I do not like the looks of it. Sometimes when I have a cold it is larger. Should I have it re- moved by surgery?” Answer: The enlarged gland is Probably an over-distended lymph node which gets larger when you have a cold due to the increased amount of waste carried by thé. lym- phatic circulation. This enlarged gland can doubtless be reduced through treatments and a careful diet, or it can at least be kept from getting any larger. If it is removed surgically, there will only be an ad- ded burden on the other lymphatic glands which usually then enlarge, creating more trouble. tion. The chief measure of tetabllshment of the. independent system for ‘the safekeeping ad disbursement of the public (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) [Quotations] ‘The man who. starts off with a pull is under a severe handicap. Charles M. Schwab. se % - * No industry has anything but what is put into it by the men who are’in it.—Henry Ford. ee I fear a pacifist unless the em- phasis is on the fist—James R. succeed- | —Isabel Patterson. 2 ® “The past was different but not A band, I personally fail to see why I should receive many, if any pro- posals at all—Rudy Vallee. se “Only tame kittens and yes-men lack foes."—Rabbi Louis I. Newman. * * * ze * Not everyone can warm both hands before the fire of life without scorch- ing himself in the process—Dean Inge. ee The Socialist cares more for his system than for his fellow creatures, necessarily golden.”—Harry Hansen. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 680 Kiloeycles—515.1 Meters : U, S. depart- ment of agriculture, 7:45—Meditation period. 8:06—Shoppers’ guide program. 9:00—Sunshine hour: Myron Bennet? ‘conductor. 0:00-—Opening grain markets, 0:30—Children’s playtime club. 30—Organ program: Clara Morris. 12:00—Grain markets; Bismarck Trib- une news and weather; lunch- P.M, eon program. 1:13—Classicai program, 1:45—Grain markets: high, low, ana close; Bismarck Tribune news, weather, and St. Paul liv c 2:00—Musical ‘matinee melodies, 2:30—Siesta hour: Good News radio e. Bi: ik Tribune 40—Busmarck Tribune news, cm 5:50—Music. 6:00—Dinner hour organ recital: Clara Morris, 6:45—Newscasting. —Studio program. A 7:43—National Home Magazine pro« gram. 8:00—Music. 9:00--Dance program (remote). William Beebe, in his metal diving glove, descended recently to the world’s record depth of 1426 feet be- low the surface of the ocean. At this depth the water pressure is 652 pounds to the-square inch. The Dutch were the first to dis- cover the value of tea, and when in 1666 it was first introduced in Eng- land, it sold at a very high price. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: