The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1931, Page 4

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Logan Payne Co. | CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON i War Mothers and George Washington | ‘The United States George Washington Bicentennial | commission, in its work of organizing the nation-wide | celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Wash-/ ington’s birth in 1932, is to receive from the American ‘War Mothers cooperation at once most touching and fit-| ting. No citizen needs to be reminded of the significance | of the stars worn by these brave mothers—the blue star! for those whose sons returned from service unscathed except for the searing experience of war; the silver star for mothers whose sons were wounded or disabled in battle; and the gold star for those whose sons made | supreme sacrifice and lie in heroes’ graves. Last year congress authorized a pilgrimage of these Gold Star Mothers to the graves of their sons on the battlefields of Europe. This pilgrimage, conducted by | seneral regret, even though the city has, at the moment, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931 money, for he has handled or controlled millions. It can honestly be said that he has never demonstrated any knowledge of its proper use. To side with a so-called Wall Street baron against the thing, but every person who uses common sense will do 80, There is no question about the abusive practices of which interest on money have been the cause. That such abuses either exist, have existed, or are believed to exist, is demonstrated by the persistency with which bills to regulate, reduce and control interest notes pop up in the North Dakota and other legislatures. On the other hand, there is even less question about its value to business and commerce. Many North Dakotans who now are comfortably fixed could not ha® attained their present position without borrowing money—and any commercial loan means interest. Many a farmer has | reaped a profit from the improvements which he has; made with borrowed money. i It would seem that Townley is attacking this problem from the wrong side. He forgets that the man obtaining | @ loan agrees to pay interest and that, if he does not 60 agree, he has to do without the money. Just how the nation would do business during the period of his pro- posed three-year moratorium on interest payments { doesn't interest Mr. Townley. He has other fish to fry. A Real Improvement | With workmen busy tearing out the street car tracks | in Fourth St., and plans under way for paving between the vacant strip, Bismarck is watching a very real im- provement in both its civic and commercial life. The once-proud street car was referred to with more of jest than of admiration during the final years of its serv- ice. It had outlived its day and its passing was without nothing to take its place. | Michael J. (Mickey) O'Connor, directing the work of | removing the rails, is in somewhat the same situation | as @ pall-bearer at the funeral of an old friend. It was) jhe who operated and directed the destinies of the only public transportation system Bismarck ever has had. He did a good job of it for many years and may be de-/ pended upon to perform the “last sad offices” for the track he knew so well in creditable fashion. j With the rails out of the way and the space once oc-; ‘cupied by them paved, business on Fourth St. will be ex- pedited and merchants no longer will have the annoy- ance of seeing traffic blocks near their stores because of the war department, was open to those mothers and/ widows who had not been previously overseas at their) own expense on this reverent errand. This year, con-! gress, through an amendment, has authorized another | pilgrimage to include women who have previously visited | these graves at their own cost, as well as those whose) relatives have been left among the 4,384 “missing”—| those men who were lost at sea, or buried without means | of identification, or whose graves were afterward fought} over in battle and obliterated. As part of this plan to omit none from the honors due to the heroic dead, the nation, through congress, has authorized the building of a chapel in each of the Amer- ican battlefield cemeteries in Europe. On these chapels will be carved the name of each of these missing men whose graves will never be found. The building of the) chapels is in the care of General Pershing. As last year, this pilgrimage will be conducted in separate parties, the first contingent sailing on the Uni-} ted States steamship “George Washington” today, the last one on the “President Roosevelt” on August 19. On each voyage to Europe and back these Gold Star Mothers will devote one or more days to services and exercises in com- memoration of George Washington, commander-in-chief | of the armies that made America free. It is only fitting that the nation should honor its war mothers. This gracious act of the government should’ give them pleasure and it should also bring home to every} citizen the desirability of a lasting peace. Scientific Hokum | Occasionally there is born into the world a child who | must run on all-fours for a considerable period of farae! before he learns to walk. | The reason for this, of course, is obscured by the his- tory of the human race, if reason there be, but scientists the presence of the street car on a relatively narrow street with motor cars parked on either side. But at the same time that we recognize the value of this change, there is no reason why we should be content to let matters end there. Bismarck is big enough to sup- port a@ more modern transportation system and should have one. Some day an enterprising expert in this line is going to establish such a system to give service to residents of the city and, at the same time, make it pay. When this is done every merchant in Bismarck will find it to his ad- vantage. Not What It Seems The recent census disclosed, according to some folks; who have taken the trouble to look into the matter, that the ratio of children of 15 years and less to the total population has dropped from 38 to 31 per cent. since 1880. From this fact the deduction is made that the size of the average family is growing smalltr and that the nation is in danger of seeing the number of children reduced until, at long last, there will be nothing left except finicky old bachelors and pernickety old maids. All of which is bosh and a serious misinterpretation of the facts. It should not be forgotten that the chief rea- son for the decreased percentage of children is the in- creased percentage of adults. People live longer now than they used to, the average span of life having gone up something like 20 years in the last half century. We wonder what the figures would have shown for 1880 if the same rule of longevity had prevailed then. Automobile Output Increasing | Figures tabulated by the U. S. Department of Com-/ merce show that automobile production during March/ seem unable to take a natural phenomena at its face! value and are constantly striving to connect a remote! cause with an immediate effect. It is so in this case, for men connected with the Smith-/ sonian Institute at Washington, after studying some 400) of these children, have announced it is a clear indication | that man once was a four-footed animal at some time 1n/ the pre-historic past. They regard it as a complste refu- | tation of the claim of some other scientists that man al-+ ways was different from other creatures in the world in/ that he walked in an uprigit position from the beginning. | Whether the ancestors from whom these quadrupedal children are said to have descended also had hoofs and) horns the men of learning and careful observation have} not worked out or if they have they do not say 50. Eventually, however, they may get around to the point of: telling us, quite solemnly, what was the standard; breakfast of those times. i There is a great deal to be learned from science—and a vast amount of bunk in it also. Without attempting to brand the gentlemen of the Smithsonian institute as such, we feel it a fair assertion that a good many crimes are committed and much hokum spread in the name of sci-/ ence. The benefits of scientific study and observation are beyond question, but this cannot hide the fact that there is a great deal of scientific charlatanism. It seems a little far-fetched to observe that the pre- | historic forebears of little Willie Jones were quadrupeds| simply because Willie chooses to gallop for a time on hands and feet rather than in the normal manner. It may be merely an indication that Willie will grow up to be a scientist with queer ideas of his own to foist upon @ gullible and unsuspecting public. Two Views on Interest ‘Two radically different views on the subject of “inter- est” paid for the use of money have been given promi- nence in the press during the last few days. The first was that of the late George F. Baker, New York capitalist, who was rated as among the richest men in the country. The second was that of A. C. Townley, one-time political agitator in this state. Baker's attitude toward interest was typified by.a story told of him in his youth. It seems that he observed, dur- was greater than in any month since last June and ex- cceded the preceding month by 56,000 units. Factory sales for March totaled 276,341 units, including passenger cars, taxicabs and trucks. The first quarter this year showed an output 33 per cent below that of the corre- sponding period of 1930, and 54 per cent under the same/ quarter of 1929. This shows to what extent the depres- sion hit the automobile industry. A continued steady in- crease in production is expected during the spring and: summer months. Editorial Comment ight Editor. er rd ‘Tribe by other e to whether they agree or disagree wi une's policies. rinted below show the trend of tho Itors. They are published without Difficult, But Necessary (Duluth Herald) A large bank, through its house organ, says that the collapse in silver prices is due to progressive demonetiza- tion of silver and the debasement of silver coinage. adds that an international conference to stabilize silver “will be very difficult.” Difficult, no doubt, but far more necessary than most bankers, who are wedded to the gold standard doctrine, are willing to admit. Doctrinaire gold standard advocates have carried their purpose altogether too far. They did a monstrous folly when they wrecked the buying power of the Orient by cutting in two the purchasing value of the only money that most Orientals know anything about. They not only spread ruin in the Orient, but they have greatly harmed the Occident also by damaging its market in the East. Moreover, by trying to stretch the limited amount of gold far beyond its capacity to serve, they have hurt the Occident directly as well as indirectly. * Of course it will be hard, with many bankers doggedly standing up for the gold standard, to do what needs to be done. But what needs to be done is so obvious, and the penalty for not. doing it so plain, that no imaginable dif- ficulty can be great enough to warrant a failure to go about it. Welcome to Visitors to City (Valley City Times-Record) nes Chief of Police Kelly is preparing to give visitors to Valley City the glad hand. He has a card printed which ing a visit to his grandfather's farm, that his Uncle John) ne lived well but did not work. Inquiry developed the fact that Uncle John had an income from interest money and ‘Young Baker decided that he, some day, would do so also. He did in s manner rivalled by few men in the history of the world. Baker's view was that interest is merely a rental charge for the use of money. Persons desiring to use it for their own benefit could obtain it on condition that they return it intact at the end of a given period, to- gether with an additional sum as rental for its use. park within the city as long as they feel like it without any chance of being molested by the police. The only; restrictions that the chief has is that visitors obey the ordinance in regard to parking in restricted zones like fire hydrants, in front of public buildings and places where there must be space left to operate by the fire de- partment in case of fire. ‘This is the proper spirit for Valley City to show, and it is being adopted in many cities of the state. Instead of driving people away from our city by stringent rules and tions that are irksome and arbitrary, we want the out with the welcome sign 50 F QUESTIONS IN REGARD BY ORMCCOY ENCLOSE OTHER AIDS TO ELIMINATION Today is the first day of the non- starchy vegetable diet for those who are using the Spring eliminative diet course. The restricted diet alone is going to produce a natural elimina- tion of toxins from the body, but in order to get the greatest good, and increase the elimination as rapidly as Possible, there are several other things which I want you to do in addition to adhering strictly to the diet. We know that waste products are constantly being thrown off by var- ious channels, some through the skin, through the lungs, through the kid- neys and a large portion is being converted into bile and elimtnated from the liver into the intestines. In the sick person, the elimination from some of these channels is imperfect, and as the clogging occurs the sys- temic poisoning grows greater... + There is no doubt that one of ‘the most frequent causes of disease is an impure blood stream. The blood must be kept. pure, as it carries the food which supplies the life of all the organs and tissues of the body, and whenever this partial stoppage occurs there is a dangerous poisoning of the entire system. The only way we have ot getting rid of the accumulated toxins 1s to speed up the channels of elimination. io Very few people keep their skin in such a healthy condition that their pores can function with their full ef- ficiency. Consequently, some waste may be retained in the tissues which must be thrown out through other eliminative organs, throwing an extra burden on them. While you are taking this elimina- tive diet I have already advised you to use at least two sponge or shower baths daily, and you should follow this with a vigorous skin friction to assure an active blood circulation un- der the skin. It would also be a good plan for you to take sweat baths, blanket sweats or Turkish baths while following this eliminative course. You could take them as often as once a day, or for those who are weak, once every other day. The sweat baths should then be followed with a cool shower to tone up the skin and bring about a reaction after the heat treat- ment. In taking a sweat bath one always It| has the best results by taking a light exercise first. A hot foot bath may be used. Sit in a chair next to the bathtub with your feet in hot water and the rest of the body entirely wrapped closely with a woolen blan- TO HEALTH € DIET Wilt ADDRESSED In STAMPEO HOORESSE (© 1928. Me COY HEALIN SERVIC: BE ANSWERED afield ages PLY E -LOS ANGELES. it ket. Sometimes it is advisable to bring ubout an. extra amount of sweating during the night by using a cold sheet pack. A large bed sheet Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet addressed to him, care of envelope for reply. is slightly moistened with cold water and then wrapped around the patient, mpletely covering the body. The patient is placed between woolen blankets and covered with plenty of other woolen blankets. The heat of the body should be retained in this manner and thus produce a copious perspiration which should continue for about an hour, when a warm sponge or shower bath should be tak- en and patient placed between. clean sneets and blankets. If the’ sweat Coes not start up within:a very short time after a cold sheet. pack, a hot water bottle should be placed near the feet and back, under the outer blankets. Continue with the vegetable diet and general instructions whieh were out- ined. in yesterday's article and watch for the last of: the ' articles on the spring eliminative diet in Saturday's paper. par QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Blood Test Question: W. A. writes: “I was orphaned twenty-five years ago. I believe that I. have found a sister. Could a blood test positively confirm the relationship?” : Answer: There is no blood compar- ison test which is absolutely accurate for determining blood __ relationship, especially after such a long period of time. Different. habits of living with your sister and yourself may, over a period of years, change the character of your biood cells. Saccharin Question: H. G. asks: “Will you Please tell me something about sac- charin as I have been advised to use it in place of sugar. I have also been told to abstain from fruits, and those vegetables which have sugar or starch in them. I have had diabetes for several years.” Answer: Saccharin is often recom- mended to be used as a substitute for sugar, although it has no food value. It is one of the coal tar products and its continued use is unquestionably BE SURE HEARSANS FRvine squertis 00 Nor” FLY. THE PARACHUTE-LIKE FLAP OF SIN CONNECTING “THE FORE AND HIND LIMBS _ ENABLES HEM ONLY 10 GLIDE, YOU'RE RIGHT- Io eel GRAVITATION THEORY TO (NEWTON. VOLTAIRE STARTED THE STORY ON A | Prices Not the Only Things Being ‘Pegged’ in the Farm Belt! satiric if inept Townley may not be the most popular) injurious. Practically all fruits may be used by the diabetic, as the fruit sugar alone is not sufficient to pro- duce trouble as long as other sugar is not used. There are very few vege- tables which are starchy. Potatoes contain from 14 per cent to 20 per cent, and Hubbard squash as high as 15 per cent. The rest of the vege- tables are only medium starchy or non-starchy. Most of the starch which we use comes from the cereal foods and everything made from flour. Baby’s Diet Question: Mrs. R. asks: “How old must a baby be before he may be giv- en strained vegetables?” Answer: After changing from breast feeding the baby should be giv- en nothing but Holstein milk and orange juice up to about the age of two years, after which he should take @ little less milk and begin using the minced, non-starchy vegetables. 5 GOMPERS’ APPEAL On May 7, 1917, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sent an appeal by cable to the executive committee of the Coun- cil of Workmen's and Soldiers’ Dele- gates at Petrograd after the czar had been overthrown. The appeal said in part: “The gravest crisis in the world’s history is now hanging in the balance and the course which Russia will pur- sue may have a determining influence |* whether democracy or autocracy shall prevail. .. . Now that Russian autoc- racy is overthrown, neither the Amer- ican government nor the American people apprehend that the wisdom and experience of Russia in the com- ing constitutional assembly will adopt any form of government other than the one best suited to your needs. “The American government, the American people, the American labor movement, are wholeheartedly with the Russian workers, the Russian masses, in the great effort to main- tain the freedom you have already achieved, and to solve the grave prob- lems yet before you. “We earnestly appeal to you to make common cause with us to abol- ish all forms of autocracy and despot- ism.and to establish and maintain for generations yet unborn the priceless treasures of justice, freedom, democ- racy and humanit [BARBS If the Franco-Italian naval discord is ever patched up, truce would be stranger than fiction. * * * They call him “Legs” Diamond, but the fellow seems to be on his back most of the time . * * * * Now they're calling those fellows who want to fly to the moon rocket- eers. * oe * A politician doesn’t seem to realize that the steam he blows off can also be condensed. see, A rubber statue was unveiled in Ireland recently, and all the art critics, of course, had to make cut- ting remarks. -_* * These are days when 4 king’s sub- jects are subject to whims of their own, xe * In driving about this summer you'll notice that. the weenie stands, as us- ual, will be hot “aN your trail. 4 * Z Then there's the fellow ‘who refuse: to eat fish for fear of pulling a bone. (Copyright, 1931, Nea Service, :Inc.) Husband (after vain search in tool- shed on Saturday-afternoon): “What? ‘Lent my fork and spade to Mrs. Wig- gins? What am I going to do then?” ‘Wife: “I forgot to tell you, dear. to lend you to her too, up her potato patch.”—Passing {" Stickder Solution ] 55 8 RIE RSE a ere An 7 iE Rc No ec Ac re ing Pegged’ in the Farm Beltt | 7 H oe ¢ :-: PITCHI st] ee Bert : “The Pitching Fool” was the name they gave ‘mise ta oater®. He quits college, takes another n name, gives 2a chances of » big business future, just to Puy, famous brother Harry, that some day he will ea yr league. His fat ce 4 nu the home run king of the Gothams, is against this bu! Ler} Sis Inthe fourth season on the Coast he uses his right name, tains money when accidentally Cope | into show production and iy hanpy because the girl he loves will accept him, He wagers be outcome of the fourth season. . “ KISS?” Mavis asked. ah “A genuine kiss,” I assured her. | . “If souk team wins the season’s series I am to give you a kiss—if Dad’s team wins, it will cost me only @ handshake, is that your proposition?” “That's it.” a 4 : . “I'll go you,” she agreed, . . \ “Now,” T said, solemnly, “I have simply got to win!” ~ ‘Then it was our turn to warm up. (£ didn’t need much of it, because T-didn't say- anything theh, put {Td been practicing more than usual thought that if only I could win { for weeks before the opening. That favor with his daughter I'd give \very forenoon I had studied those him the team or buy him a few ‘slow-motion films of my curves and more, igone away alone to practice some ‘One thing that upset me was & me hiad a surprise coming. | ae scandal | about a Bo was a i nol u | Wvnad & surprise ened about the | pushed Up dia ckly endugh, but way, or the different ways, the ball | from what I could gather. had comes down for certain curves ' been sued by some girl and settled, helped me with my stick work. In | 1 wouldn’t write an im, and the opening I clouted a two-bageer. | jn his infrequent letters he made no \ tnd, also, in the, opening. Req | mention of it, If it were true I be- “asa lieve that his wife would take ad- petween innings, and Merrill will | ¢ didnt know the true situation went goure tellin’ my boss | there. ‘wind, Red couldn't understand | | Would Mavis Come Back? | made me laug! We co wh my | And as the end of tne season ap- © lost at ectng Bere png thood proached ariother thing worried me, But it was snappy ball for the first | would Mavis Merrill be back for the of the season. » | final games? How about our bet? Bi 5 Re eee If we won there was 8 kiss to col- “Pil double the bet,” I offered, | lect from her. I sure wanted that She laughed at me ‘and shook her | kiss. J had plans about what I 2 would do if I won my wager and ‘The next in Avalda, we had better Inck, ‘Tice Tanned Panni- | ‘nore plans included « mice solitaire gan, also Griggs, another demon hit- Red Flannigan was still trying to fe. Vege op eee eas | rile -me, to start somethin ~ when- fees the ae) . | ever possible. But ty ed Red ve to two is good playing, re- | pretty well by this time. For one ardless of ‘the importance of the . thing he was sore because I sported articles about ts, and declared that | ®found pretty much with quite » the fans throughout the league ter- | SWell bunch in San Guardo, and = \ ritory would see better baseball than | lived at the swell hotel all beeen ever. ' and had a car, Then again, there tation, I dined with Mavis | y, ey her father that evening at an | Was & sort of rivalry dating from 2 Avalda hotel. the time we were school kids in pemnen sts: | Maa ing Cape for’ the summer i ‘Bay, Red,” I said to him one With en sunt, much to my dismay. | day, “Il stake you to a trip to “TNl be back in time for the finish | Harry's place near Washington this of the season and to collect that | winter for a few weeks and he will handshake,” she told me. i coach you with, the stick.” ou, Tr ' fe thou was trying T__Still in Love! |, hin and, gol, sore. eer “I don’t need any cot i—! ac ee ea a etal? yPronoR® | htt, anything’ you $ee5 he Toatd, derstand just how I felt, but my | Surly. . better judgment told me that it K,, Red,” was all I could would be safer to wait. to that. I was sorry he still felt However, we hada red hot season; | pool because I had hazy plans part of the time the Queen Valley | 2 Bitfit'was far in the led. and then | Strange how everything seemed ee Out of our ‘slump and | to hinge on whether I could con- lead. The Avaldas were | vince Mavis Merrill that she ought laying better ball. This was un- Roubtelly dae to “the fast” that | ‘0 become Mavis Rushe, Ep, ES GN uit | gaat RNa ay q ie 1 + the team. | doubt, Tleamed that Mavis had re- 5 fe were down at een Avsicn® of our hot games with the | valley next day and 1 wouldn't get from me e' pitched to | % chance to see her much before him, The It was that I askea | the last games, John Merrill to give him an in- | Whichever of us, the Avaldas or ie, foe mame s: | Suerte he saat 4 My bul lent fested ‘that it t advisable, but Margin on ‘percentage 2 win the season’ we A few weeks later, when next I j closer than in the previous season. Mibetween Cont aid getva raise,” | ings, all by myself at & place on he ‘whispered, “Just because Tgot | the” shore,” t nut ‘some ‘new spel 5 LUSE g i} le shore, try out some new wise to your curves.” holds, hoping to be able to toss ina He laughed as if he didn’t believe | __ It was on the morning of the day I was sincere. | of our opening with the Avaldas But this day he didn’t have such ; that I had been working out alone. luck. I was the last five in- | I got in my car to drive back. I nings and Red went down twice be- | 10a. Te paren Nite ln ct pn Re at mad sore again, He | made the old bus | scoot toward home. I ‘accused me of being jealous and | admit, in my di igen cares "e to about me. was @ red-hot baseball season It bo ani All the teams made good u i z i Fi rts ER” 3 § Fi i Zl E & 6 2 8 = 3 35 é 2 5 : i BEE HE i sane i E EE Bg; gees g He 5 E 5a) i 3 a8 z E Hi aft et i ia E k : I i ag pe z 4 ge ze g Ss z z § ss 5 i me 3 ay dt ai Hee E i 5 zy ih Fa Fy EE g ae é, of F2, He E ur Es, Byte 8 E dy Bg e ts th & g g i i i y 4 B ig Tae i wes i E even the weaker ones, | \ Ee wrong side of the hi ing @ sharp curve I cut away over ‘was so far over and in the aula - dle of the curve and more than in the middle of the highway. that I couldn't possibly save myself, at straight for adie meant @ big smash—and the day of the big gemel” -” How does Bert f: this im- pending crash? ‘Who i Ay me of the other car? Read tomor- rows iment for unt inte developments inthis Pitching Fool.” il (Copyright, 1929, Graphic Syndicate, Ine.) The world has never yet failed to Peay a reign after a period of sept agnosticism.- K. Chesterton, Sect * oe & We are all combative animals, but we must learn to use our combative- hess against the things of the world that are worth fighting against with- out fighting against each other—The Bishop of Liverpool. * * * The situation of children made un- happy by the divorce of their parents is becoming aggravated through the increasing popularity of divorce— Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: The girl who will wait indefi her date usually has gg i” ti c Sy ot