The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON A Monarch Falls Alfonso XIII of Spain, a monarch on Monday, was a private citizen Tuesday, his robes of royalty stripped from him, his pride of place gone and in his mouth the gshes of defeat. He can expect no sympathy from the average Ameri- can, who has little regard for Kings, but all will realize that it is a tragedy, at least for Alfonso and the royal Bourbon line of which he was the last to rule. Canny enough to be forehanded, Alfonso is not a poor | man and he will be able to live in comfort if not in peace ‘wherever he goes and whatever he does. A large share of his wealth is invested in British and American corpor- tions and cannot come into the possession of his enem- fies in the new republic who might be disposed to make things difficult for him. Of great interest throughout the world will be the ac- tions of those in charge of the new republic and their efforts to bring order out of the chaos which has be- sieged Spain for many years. It is a big task and one which the world will hope is accomplished without undue strife or delay. Since Spain is a Latin country, the experimental stages of the republic may be precarious ones. The Spanish are ® temperamental and mercurial people. It may be dif- ficult for a government which depends on popular sup- port to maintain itself, The favor of the electorate 1s fickle enought in more staid countries, such as England ‘and the United States, and when the heat of Latin mature is added to that instability the result may be to treate difficulty if not disaster. It is to be presumed, however, that the Republican gov- ernment will have an opportunity to accomplish real bene- fits for the Spanish people. If not itself decadent, the Spanish court was surrounded by a decaying aristocracy and one which has had little regard for the common weal. ‘This was inevitable in a country where the monarchical aristocracy was as old and as firmly rooted as was that of Spain. One aspect of the change in Spain's form of govern- ment is outstanding. This is the fact that it was ac- complished without bloodshed and as a result of the people's expression in an election. Spain has had numer- ous attempts at revolution by force in recent years and all of them have been suppressed, several with consider- able loss of life. The present reyolution substituted bal- lots for bullets and succeeded. Perhaps never before has ® powerful ruling house, strongly entrenched as was that in Spain, been ousted in a similar manner. The fact that he chose to abdicate rather than invoke military power to retain his throne, brands Alfonso XIII Qs a real man, even if he is no longer king. To step down from the throne of his fathers was a decision which must have been hard for him. Yet he chose it rather than plunge his already strife-torn country into civil warfare. Biographers, even those having scant sympathy with the monarchy, have labelled Alfonso a brave man, He hhas done, in all his life-time, nothing braver than to humble himself before the will of his people as he did j Tuesday. | Ideas in Action Peter T. Pirsch, a contractor at Kenosha, Wis., had an {idea for an invention and was working on it. Presum- bly the machine which he first visualized was a hobby ‘with him and took form slowly, in his spare time. It ‘was one which his experience told him was worthwhile fand which he was perfecting at his leisure. And then came the news that a number of men were trapped in a tunnel in Chicago; that some already were dead and that others might die unless aid were given them. It was just such a situation as Pirsch had in mind ‘when he began work on his invention. He felt that he could help those men in Chicago if the machine were fin- ished, so he worked until three o'clock in the morning to complete it and then hurried to Chicago to see if {t would work. It did work and saved the lives of 17 men, who other- ‘wise would have perished as the result of flames and gas fumes which filled the tunnel in which they were trapped. ‘With Pirsch it was a case of translating an idea into faction. His success was the greatest possible endorse- ment for the efficacy of his brainchild. But there is another angle which is worth pondering, Sust as surely as though he had plunged into that tun- hel and dragged those men out by force of body and will, Pirsch is a life-saver, There wasn’t much of the spec- tacular about ranging a queer-looking machine at the tunnel mouth and setting a group of pumps to going, but it was more effective than any amount of personal Belf-sacrifice and heroic daring would have been. ‘There 4s something about that which makes us think. Hard to Understand It is hard to understand the attitude of those Iowa farmers who rose in arms to prevent the tuberculin test- ing of their herds by state authorities, ‘They became so wrathy that state veterinarians were business all foolishness. It be an over-pompous state official who considered himself of vast importance and showed it by his actions. Shakespeare mentions such folk and they have long existed, although the best-known modern example, prob- ably, is the officious traffic policeman. If this does happen to be the case, we'll venture those state veterin- arians will have learned something valuable to them.” The ‘Roadhog’ a Public Menace Scientific investigators, bent on getting at the truth about the alarming increase of automobile accidents, are bringing out a few surprises. For instance, it is not the “dumbbell” driving an ancient rattler who is the greatest, menace to life and limb, nor is it the drunken driver or narcotic addict. The driver most frequently involved in accidents ic a well-behaved, respectable citizen, above the average in intelligence. But he is of the self-cen- tered type—very selfish, to say the least. Some nev light is being shed on this perplexing ques- tion by Dr. Paul Schroeder, Wlinois criminologist, who made a study of the records of all prisoners at Joliet penitentiary convicted of manslaughter with an automo- bile. “These men,” Dr. Schroeder reported, “were all of aver- age intelligence and average physical fitness. They were not idiots, they were not cripples, their vision and hear- ing were good, and they were not drunkards. In nearly every case, however, I found marked traits of selfishness. The men were entirely self-centered and suffered little or no remorse for having killed a fellow human being. Even in their prison Ife they had little regard for the feelings of others.” Dr. Schroeder made a further study of 100 traffic vio- lators and found that only three had serious physical defects, only one was subject to epilepsy and one was in- sane. “The striking thing about this study was that most of the violators were old offenders,” said Dr. Schroeder. “The entire group averaged 2.4 previous offenses, eifher traffic or otherwise, per man. “The experience of a commercial organization recently came to my attention,” the doctor continued. “Upon scrutinizing its records, it was found that only 8 per | cent of the truck drivers employed by the firm caused | 52 per cent of all the accidents reported. This small | group of drivers represented the emotional, self-centered These findings appear to be an indictment of what is | commonly known as the “road-hog.” As automobile travel increases, they will have to be eliminated from the busy lanes of traffic. | Have You Got Yours? | Figures compiled by the National Industrial Confer- ence board, an organization which revels in statistics, shows that North Dakota ranks high among the states in! point of per capita wealth. In 1928 the total wealth of| the state Was fixed at $2,576,000,000 and in 1929 it was/ $2,580,000,000. | Because of an increase in population from one year to the next, the average, per capita dropped from $3,816 in 1928 to $3,803 in 1929. Even with the reduction, how- ever, North Dakotans were far above the average for the | nation, which is $2,977 for 1929. Since the average North Dakota family is composed of | 4.5 persons, this means $17,113.50 per family, a tidy sum.| It 4s not distributed among the population on that basis, | it is true, and yet it is comforting to know that the peo- ple of our young state are doing as well or better than those elsewhere. | A survey of the average income shows that it was $318) in 1909 and $692 in 1929. When the latter is interpreted in terms of purchasing power as of 1913, the figure boils down to $432, but even this amount is the highest aver- age in history. 7 Meeting Competition Baseball evidently is meeting the competition offered by other sports, according to attendance figures for the opening games of the major league season Tuesday. The lure offered by the sound of bat against ball, the sight of a cunning pitcher pitting himself against the ability of mighty batsmen, the thriJl of two men out with two strikes and three balls on the batter and the bases filled, was strong enough to lure hundreds of thou- sands to the ball-yards, Somehow, those who love baseball will get satisfaction out of that fact. It will prove to them that their first love still deserves their affection. Millions may play golf and other games, but cther millions will see baseball games, too. And while Alfonso was leaving the throne of Spain the news dispatches tell us that King George of England was getting better. He probably realized that he would have a jobless relative visiting him before long. That Chicago garageman who swatted a red-haired lady on the proboscis and then was knocked out by her must have hailed originally from Missouri, where they don’t believe in reputations. Finally Fargo decides not to have a recall election after all. Possibly the voters gave those most interested a) hint that they had better leave well enough alone, Ex- pensive special elections are none too popular these days. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agr r disagrees with The Trib- une's policies. i They Hustled the East (New York World-Telegram) Many have tried, to their sorrow, to push the Orient into western civilization faster than it wanted to go. Kipling said it couldn’t be done when he wrote:— “And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name oj the late deceased. “And the epitaph drear:—'A fool les heré who tried to hustle the East!’” But three royal gentlemen of Siam, the last of whom will soon arrive here with his little Queen, have come Nearer succeeding than any except the modern rulers of Japan. In two generations old King Chulalongkorn and his two Oxford-trained sons, Rama VI. and Pra- jadhipok, have made over their kingdom that lies in the heart of the Far East. They have abolished slavery, the harem, much super- stition. They have established postel and telegraph systems; have built good roads, and pure water works for their metropolis, pergeek instituted tive rural credits, cor metric system, wDemocrcy these thodetn rulers, festern ones, benevolent not-espoused. But thi movies, radio, golf. Until he suffered the brings him here for an operation I | © type.” i ° HA! HA! REMEMBERS as HOW 110K THE SOLID SOUTH” PITCHING FOOL :« SYNOPSIS:—Bert Ri is unwilling to trade on the name of his famous baseball star brother, Home Run Harry, and, family bia vente he quits ae and gets into a Southwestern al- though he is told that he will never make a pitcher. He has some marvelous curves and in college got the name of the Fool. Down here, however, he is in fast compahy. He makes ina way from the start, but for the first time finds out what a is and gets knocked flat in one that breaks up a game. HATEVER it was that socked me in the head was bulky, but not sharp or hard, for as I stumbled and fell I was on my feet again. I had read about such riots, but never saw or experi- enced one before. -We had no classy Polo Grounds or Stadiums out that way. It was easy enough for a mob to rush in. The mob was after the umpire. I saw that as I got to my feet. : ‘The bat lay where the man I had fanned dropped it as he start- We got the train in our uni. ed for the bench. I had rushed forms, prefe to get home by down to help the umpire and 10 that night and get real eats grabbed it z. A rather than wait there for dinner I heard Manager Gibson yell- and not get in until 2. ing, “Come back—come here!” ere was no trouble at the It was all right to yell, but to station, Some of ore get through the growing mob j telling me of some They bad hai have been eee ee the previdus season, when doc- uniforms were col ous, tors and stretchers were and if ther coukin't get at the um- into Use, pire they'd sock us. T had been right when. I insisted Some y had picked up the to Mr, bata the owner, that pop bottle that was thrown at mé | /1 couldn't last ‘the -sea- son at the pace I gtarted out. I had been keyed up too much on finding myself in swift company. I strained my shoulder for two weeks didn’t toss a ball, but 1 stuck to it through the season. Along toward the close of the last nat I seemed to come back a little er. But the Mesa City outfit won the first half and the Texar- kanas the second, The wealthy J. J. Morehouse didn’t send for me at the end of the season, I guess he decided that I wasn’t as as I seemed to be that third of the season, WENT home with a little money saved and not a cent of my regular income touched, that and while the umpire was trying to push the hot-headed, cursing arguers away, this bird with the bottle sta: to sock him. I didn’t beat him with the bat; I just prodded him in his side. He gave a grunt and stumbled and fell. I heard yells then. “Beat it, Ben—look out behind, Ben—duck!” A bunch of our own rooters who et come down were right on the job. Some big husky grabbed the um- pire by the throat. I was so close that I kicked him sharply. He turned to sock me, and his fist smashed into the end of the bat, cutting open the back of his hand. ‘Two others were trying to get at‘ the umpire. Little Walters had come into it, He swept a path | ‘,my Income from the business a through with a swinging bat. thaminice We tried to get the umpire out. “Through the winter?” Sister The Cardine players had wisely May cried, “do you mean you are faded away. foing to, waste your life playing Too many pressed around us. “Harry is pulling down en Somebody from behind pulled ® year or more, if you call my bat away and socked me | kid baseball,” I answered. on the ear, and I wheeled and Sister May's husband was @ lifted him under the chin. The muscles that helped me oat down a red-hot ball were used lift this euy, and they lifted him. He slumped and went to sleep right there, but we were smoth- ered in and outnumbered. ‘Then the umpire pulled a gun. me, relative. decided that it would be best keep the man whose salary was id out of my share of the prof- its, rather than break in a new “Do you want any of this?” he man next 8] % asked. I didn’t ca sok checking up ‘They cursed and hung around, on deliveries or doing anything and then there were yeils galore, like that, so I beat it over to New for our own rooters ‘sailed into York and saw the lose them. the world’s series to the Giants. It was our chance. Walters and Brother Harry slammed out his I got away with the umpire, a homers just game and was Mesa City man named Orcutt. mighty nice to me despite his ‘Inen we saw three men saun- disappointment because I insisted tering out toward the mob of on Playing baseball instead of be~ Mermnet, will be all, bo of eoudan viata “That w! all, 8,” one in a them said. is I wouldn't tell him where I He shoved back his coat. He had When him wore a star, and a couple of guns ractice he the were visible, 60 x ,, “A couple of ‘The other two men came along. that’s all.’ ‘The rioters moved back slowly. ee boasted. “You took your time,” Manager went on Giated andthe utes deputy sbete the sia Data cleare e three deputy sher- iffs were Jook about. 4 aes wished that “We aim ive th’ boys a few him that Harry was minnits of fun,” the spokesman 4 because he wor- him. Sammy had been id. “Fun!” blustered Gibson, “one of brained i He re pay nights; we have a right brawl then.’ he contemned. tT you ARDINE wanted to quit, but that fishing trip, pe foe the ame, Thada hand re on. my neck 4 thanks— a Where the club oF clot of tod hit |’ for'that dough°you ‘saved, Ben," weal ‘Pat, then, Til tell you oa i teed I once, fanned once. I let drive with @ bairst of real come rom. anger and to my delight pill haven't touched it this was meee the cat pee Te ‘ wy ne come > Phelps shut them out, He was haying one of his big days tim- ‘When we are dead we fertilize the in may als some- body who thinks she is, if not beauti- fas ‘at least good-looking.—Lee Shu- nervous prostration, is about to have it.—Professor William x * % It is not a base superstition that mere numbers will give wisdom? Is it not universally seen that crowds ~“Stickler Solution a applicant without further examination if they duced with a fruit juice fast. I have never seen a case under my observa- tion and control where the pressure could not be readily reduced to nor- mal by this method. blood pressure a doctor must be careful not to cause any undue worry or excitement of the patient, for it is well known among Physiologists that the blood pressure varies greatly under emotional stress. It may rise as much as 50 or 60 milli- meters during an examination. While free from all emotional excitement the systolic blood pressure should not be more than from 116 to 130 milli- meters. The blood pressure is greatest dur- ing a heart beat (systolic) becoming lower between heart beats (diastolic). The blood pressure is increased by exposure to cold or by kidney dis- ease, arterial sclerosis, neurasthenia, melancholia, and some disorders of the ductless glands. Where the kid- neys are involved, a moderate high blood pressure seems tobe an advant- age, and should not be reduced by drugs, although if the kidneys are relieved of their extra burden of elimination through the proper hy- gienic measures, the blood pressure will also become more normal. are more foolish and more violent and more cruel than men separate and alone?—Will Durant. * eK | It is my opinion that I shall win the heavyweight championship of the world as soon as I can get Max Schmeling into the ring again —Jack Sharkey. : xk * What we need is more first-class funerals among these enemies of pro- hibition —Rev. E. O. Ware. * * * The consumer is a man with a job. —F. G. Gabrielson, Thief River Falls, Minn. x * * Many people have extraordinary ideas about God. One common view is that God is a great spy.—The Bish- op of London. ** * The narrow way commands an in- comparably wider, and so far as I am concerned, an incomparably fairer prospect than the primrose path.— Aldous Huxley. * * * ‘When a woman grows to accept her husband’s opinions, popularly called masculine, she is—or she may be— only appropriating what are really woman's own latent—or vestigial— mental functionings—Zona Gale. Today Is the ‘Anniversary of CAPTURE OF LENS On April 15, 1917, at between four and five in the morning, the first British troops entered Lens, their ob- Jective. ‘The offensive began April 9 along a front of 45 miles, having for its im- mediate objective Lens at one end and St. Quentin at the other. This is the. struggle which has become know as the Battle of Arras, although ‘Harvey | at the end of seven days fighting, the considerab! scene ly to the east of the city which has given its name to the battle. b The occupation of Lens marked the recovery for France of the country’s most valuable coal fields. At the other end of the 45 miles the British had practically wor thelr way into of the suburbs of St. Quentin, with the stubborn” last Germans a stand in the city itself. it applies to them, too. eee Was to balls TH & DIET WILL BE 0 CARE OF THIS PAPER ENVELOPE FOR REPLY ba ca or LOS ANGELES GAL Many doctors advise a diet which eliminates meat, alcohol and tobacco, but I seldom find that a patient wit Dr. McCoy will gladly answer Personal questions on health and diet addressed to him, care of The Tribune. stamped addressed a envelope for reply. high blood pressure has used more of these so-called agents than the aver- age person. After the fruit juice fast to reduce the blood pressure to nor- mal, it has been my observation that & permanent cure depends ‘entirely upon the regulation of the use of carbohydrates. I have tested this fact carefully in thousands of cases. ‘When patients use carbohydrates on | ome day and not the next, it is very | easy to determine the day when car- | bohydrates were used by the rise in blood pressure. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ridges on Fingernails Question: R. B. asks: “Why dc the fingernails ‘have longitudinal lines? My nephew of 12 has very healthy looking nails except for these up and down ridges and I feel there is some cause which should now be viduals | corrected. As to myself, I have adef- inite soreness right at the hinges of the jaw on both sides, flesh is sore, especially in the mornings. Then the feeling passes and just leaves the flesh tender, sometimes with little blister. Does this mean the begin- ning'‘of anything serious?” Answer: Longitudinal lines on the fingernails are not of any particular significance. Sometimes they are found in those of a tubercular tend- ency or those having chronic bron- chitis. I could not determine just | what is causing the soreness in the jaws without examining you. This j might be due to some disorder of the salivary glands or might be due to an impacted or abscessed wisdom tooth. Papilloma of Bladder : Q. N. writes: “An ex- amination by cystoscope showed pa- pilloma of the bladder. I will be glad for your opinion as to what should be done now.” Answ A papilloma of the blad- der is usually caused by irritation from. cystitis and the small ones will some- times disappear when the irritation of the bladder is corrected., Large ones may have to be removed surgically if they are interfering with the passage of the urine. . Cervical Rib Question: S. C. asks: “What treatment do you advise for cervical rib?” Answer: If your cervical rib is not tadsing trouble it should be left alone. If it causes pressure in the neck, then surgical removal is usually the best. polic; Quest: THURSDAY, APRIL 16 350 Kilocycles—545.1 Meters ‘arm Flashes—Weather Re- ort lorning Devotions 9:25—World Bookman 9:30—Hits and Bits 10:00—Opening Markets and Weathy eport 10:10—Aunt Sammy 10:58—Arlington Time Signals 11:00—Markets 11:05—Organist :30—National Farmand Home Hour Music 0—Music :15—Markets: High, Low and Close —News, Weather, Livestock :30—Federation of Women’s Clubs :45—Siesta Program and Good News 2 2 ss Magazine 3:00—Tea Dance Program 3:30—U. S. Army Band 4:00—Lady Next Door 4:30—Classics §:00—Dance Program 6 6 8 8 8 8 80—Stocks and Bonds — News— eather 00—Mid-Week Hymn Sing —Studio )0—Studio )0—Musical Memories 5—Studio 3 lealey 9:00—Dance Orchestra In North Dakota in 1929 it took 164 cows of the 100 pound class to return $1,000 over feed cost, figuring butter- fat at 40 cents a pound. Fifteen cows of the 300 pound class produced the same income over feed cost. But the 167 cows produced 16,700 pounds of butterfat, and the 15 cows only 4,500 This extra 12,200 pounds of butterfat Froduced by the poor producing cows 4s probably to blame for some of the surplus, 3 While pousing farm machinery is important and desirable, it has been found that systematic annual repair- ing of the machines has more influ- ence on their life, Reports from 262 health garden: grown by Georgia rural schools show @ production of $6,630.44 worth ol vegetables. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: