The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 4

1 i | en 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931 ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Independent Newspaper ' THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘88 second class mail matter. George D. Mann ...,... +» President and Publisher 0 as sereny ll etek ehhh tisha eeatadaeraaahonensiang Weekly by mail in state, per year . Weekly by mail in state, three years .. ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dako! janada, per year za Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are 0 rese! A (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Poverty and Crime j Poverty, misery and crime go hand in hand. They form such a closely-knit triumvirate that one sometimes 4s forced to believe that most of the so-called wickedness, perversity and general cussedness of the human race would vanish from the scene if only economic conditions | could be improved sufficiently. i A few days ago the health council of a representative | ‘American city submitted its report on the city’s “sub-| merged tenth”—the very poorest class, which occupies a | part of the town that sociologists have dubbed the “eco-| nomic graveyard.” Ninety thousand people live in this particular section. ‘They make up 10 per cent of the city’s population, Lis- ten to some of the figures about them: | To begin with, this 10 per cent of the city's inhabitants | occupies only 6 per cent of the city’s area. It contrib- utes 11 per cent of the city’s births, but only 6 per cent of the hospital births. It has 16 per cent of the infants’ | deaths, 18 per cent of the city’s total unemployed and 24 | per cent of the charity cases. It furnishes 17 per cent of | the city’s illegitimate births, 20 per cent of iis juvenile delinquency cases, 35 per cent of its murders and 49 per cent of its houses of prostitution. A glance at those figures is enough to show the in- | roads that vice, crime and general all-around unhappi- ness and misfortune make on the economically under- privileged. The child born in such an area does not get a fair chance in life, The cards are stacked against him from the beginning. Nor is that all. The more fortunate man, who Itves miles from such a neighborhood and grows to manhood ‘without ever missing a meal or spending a night in jail, is affected by that neighborhood's existence far more than he usually imagines. Because of this submerged and poverty-stricken group in his town, his taxes are higher. Because of the crime- | breeding conditions that prevail there, his chances of getting held up by a bandit some day are higher than they should be. Because of the illegal enterprises that flourish there, his city government is infested with graft. Such an area, in other words, is a point of infection; a plague-spot, influencing the entire city. No city can be healthy when poverty rests on any considerable number of its inhabitants. Bill Schilling’s Dinner William F. (Bill) Schilling of Minnesota, who has been serving as a member of the Federal Farm Board, recently gave a dinner in honor of Alexander Legge, nd there were 16 persons in attendance, including a few members of the board. It was a successful affair, the only flaw being the absence of the honor guest. In some way the story got afloat in Minnesota that Schilling had given a regal dinner at the Mayflower ho- tel, and that it had cost thousands of dollars. It was printed by Editor Coghlan in his Waseca Herald. This gave the Minnesota member a chance for a rather inter- esting comeback. Mr. Schilling explained to the Waseca gditor that the dinner was served in his own apartment, that he had cooked it himself and that it had cost exactly $14.80. ‘The biggest items on the bill were $4.95 for 11 pounds of turkey, $1.50 for flowers, $1.75 for strawberries, and $2 for the services of two colored waitresses. In submitting an itemized statement of the dinner to Editor Coghlan, Mr. Schilling wrote: “You as an Irishman will note the absence of the humble potato; well, I just couldn't afford them—they cost 5 cents each. But that is not half the story. My son, Joel, and I had turkey, pork, sauerkraut and baked beans for three days} following, and the smell of the sauerkraut stayed in the! apartment for two weeks.” Editor Coghlan not only hastened to make the correc- ion, but added that any man who could serve a turkey Ginner for 16 people in Washington at a cost of 614.80 ought to be employed by the government in giving do- mestic science demonstrations throughout the country in-| Stead of serving on the farm board. Mr. Schilling is a widower and his son, Joel, who lives fwith him, is a student at Georgetown University in Washington. Beauty and the Jury The American beauty prize-winner who recently shot her husband to death in France has been acquitted by @ French jury with the proper speed, following her at- torney’s assertion that she is “too beautiful to be bad.” (We are, accordingly, hearing the usual complaints about the utter inability of the French to punish charming women who commit murders. However, there is an old proverb about stones and glass houses. If you will prod your memory, you will find it almost impossible to recall one single case where an American court showed even mild firmness toward a charming young woman in a homicide case. A few women have been executed for murder in this country—but were they young and charming? They were not. Beautiful mur- can see no world union and believes that war will con- tinue to be the great adventure of the human race. Prof. East believes the oil age will soon pass and that 500 years from now the world’s reserve of coal will be running low. As water can furnish only about 10 per cent of the world’s need of power, the ocean tides, the winds, sunlight and earth heat will have to be utilized. For these and other reasons advanced by the Harvard | scientist, he believes it very unlikely that the world will! ever see the radical industrial revolutions that have been | predicted, and agriculture will quite likely continue to be the fundamental occupation of mankind just as it has been in the past. Cheap Transportation From Gallipolis, Ohio, to Baltimore, by land, is roughly 300 miles. By water—down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, through the Gulf of Mexico and up the Atlantic to Chesapeake Bay—it is about 3,000 miles. But @ Gallipolis! business firm has just dispatched a cargo of pickles to: Baltimore by water, believing that this will be cheaper than sending it by land. A more graphic illustration of the cheapness of water-| borne transportation could hardly be found anywhere. It explains perfectly why the inland waterways are be- ginning to be popular with shippers once more, It ex- plains why the Mahoning Valley steel district wants a canal to the Ohio river; why Chicago wants a deep waterway to the Mississippi; why the whole middle west wants a deep water channel down the St. Lawrence. A nation as fond of economy as the United States will eventually utilize this cheap means of transportation to the fullest extent. The Government’s Deficit There seems to be no way out—the people will have to dig up more taxes. We have it on no less an authority | than Andrew Melics, secretary of the treasury, that the government is facing @ considerable deficit, and that a similar condition is in prospect for 1932. The shortage ! has been caused by the recent business depression, a! falling off in income tax returns, coupled with unusually} large government expenditures. Mr. Mellon told the country about it in a radio address Saturday, and it is evidently his purpose to prepare the people for a few tax boosts to make up the deficit. | According to Mr. Mellon, the government gets two-; thirds of its revenue out of the income tax, which is s0/ dependent on the country’s state of prosperity or the lack of it, as to make it subject to sweeping variations. The income tax, he said, has become so restricted in its application that it has become a class rather than a gen- eral tax. Only 2,500,000 individuals out of a population of 120,000,000 and about 250,000 corporations now pay the tax, while 97 per cent of the total income tax comes from 380,000 persons. The secretary stated that during the last 10 years the {public debt has been reduced from $25,000,000,000 to $16,000,000,000, which reduction has cut the annual in- terest charges by nearly half a billion dollars. “In bad times as in good, we shall continue to make the payments provided by the sinking fund, as authorized by law,” Mr. Mellon declared. Well, there’s a gleam of hope in that. If the same record is maintained, our grandchildren will be able to join Uncle Sam in the celebration when he burns the last mortgage. Spooning while running an automobile isn’t love. the pip. It's No man’s pride is hurt by a dun, however, if he has the cash to pay. Age has compensation, shoe large enough. One doesn’t mind wearing a Farmers near railroads and pikes should paint their cows a bright red. Reno's wide-open mayor is the father-in-law of Walter Johnson, of the Senators. Keeping speed in the family, as it were. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought || by other editors, They published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- ‘une's policies, What Ward? (Detroit News) The early American who settled the fate of the nation nightly around the stove in the general store left a grandson who doesn’t know what ward he lives in, Marking Air Routes (New York Post) It has been left so far to the air-minded enterprise of individual communities to supply markers to guide the traffic of the air. But a law has been framed in Maryland requiring that every town of 4,000 or more population must identify itself by a name in letters four fect high on a suitable roof-top. In addition the state roads commission intends to have large symbols painted on main highways, so that the flier can use he roads below as threads of guidance. Those who have traveled by airplane know how difficult it is to identify an un- familiar town from the air. They also know that it adds considerably to the pleasure of air travel to have some idea of where the plane is flying. In Oily Exile (New York World-Telegram) Henry M. Blackmer is still clinging to the oily Liberty bonds that caused his exile from his native land. He is Planning to fight through the United States supreme court the $60,000 fines imposed on him for his refusal to re- turn from France and testify in the famous Teapot Dome trials, Blackmer is one of the oil magnates who slipped hastily out of the country in the fall of 1923 when the senate investigation of Teapot Dome was beginning to uncover facts about the Continental Trading Co. and its mysterious transactions in oil and Liberty bonds, Finally tae government caught up with him, but it never succeeded in bringing him back. He is the only one of all the group who did not return the Liberty bonds parceled out so secretly after they had manipu- lated oil prices. There would be satisfaction in seeing Blackmer pay for his part in the sordid story of Teapot Dome. Converting Army Posts (St. Paul Dispatch) 30 army posts in the interests of economy raises the ques- deresses, here as in France, usually go scot free. We have no occasion to look down our noses at this latest French verdict, The World 500 Years From Now Professor Edward M. East of Harvard University has |‘ the Department of Justice to be used as prison camps taken a look into the future and is inclined to scoff at tion of the best use of these properties. Obviously, in many cases, it would be doubtful economy to abandon an expensive institution and permit it to go unused, The intimation of Attorney General William D. Mitchell that one of two of the posts may be transferred suggests a logical employment for these posts. Not only will the equipment find a useful service through such & the imaginative geniuses who predict that the chemist/ transfer but the crowded conditions of federal prisons will abolish agriculture during the next century by pro-| may be relieved besides. ducing food synthetically. The chemist, he says, will) while probably two of three posts at the most might perform many wonders, but he will never be able to ob-| be transformed into penal camps, the transfer suggests tain power and raw materials at @ sufficiently low figure) that other army posts might be turned over from the to compete with the factories run by the lower animals| war department to other bureaus and departments for and the plants, ithe 4 pedagog tells us that in the year 2500 the assets to be left idle by the war department can be tion of the world will be about three billions five millions, or twice the figure of today. He it will then be a hybrid population, with only The economy, . here and there of the black and yellow races, In greater and the opposition to effecting it will [ppite of the buge melting pot of races thus pictured, he reduced, such use as they might make of them. If the physical utilized for any other government service the economy will be double and the communities concerned will not be deprived of some variety of operation under the conduct of the government. » Will be be greatly Intention of the government to abandon from 20 or; GENTLEMEN ! WELL SUBMIT By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine One of the most interesting im- provements in behalf of the handi- capped that has taken place in recent years is a gradual extension of per- manent installations for hearing de- vices in churches and theaters, When silent motion pictures rep- tesented the only type available, people who were hard of hearing found them particularly attractive as places of entertainment. Then came the talkies and most of the pleasure in attendance at motion pictures dis- appeared for these handicapped people. In the meantime, it had been found that many people with certain types of deafness can hear well, provided they have asistance of suitable hear- ing devices. Unfortunately such hearing devices demand special equipment which is not generally available. When these facts were brought to the attention of owners of various Places of public instruction and en- tertainment, particularly in Chicago, they decided to cooperate and to in- stall the necessary equipment. There is in Chicago today one theater in which 20 seats have been provided for the hard of hearing. When the deafened people come to this theatre they merely ask at the box office and they are provided with ear phones which are plugged into the electrical connection on the special seat. A half dozen theaters devoted to talking motion pictures are similarly Daily Health Service Talkies Add New Handicap to Millions of Hard of Hearing equipped. Many chufthes have pro- vided the necessary equipment in the form of electric cormections and head phones. Tests have been made of thousands of school children, and it has been found that many of them who are considered deaf have slight remains of the hearing apparatus. It is nec- essary to educate these remnants promptly, otherwise the portions of the brain devoted to the sense of hearing become quiescent from disuse and the longer the time of reeduca- tion is postponed the more difficult it becomes. In an address on this subject, Mrs. L. Pelton, who has been actively con- cerned in securing installation of hearing equipment, emphasized the fact that the normal child hears for more than a year before it begins to imitate the sounds that it hears in the form of speech. Great progress has been made in the teaching of lip reading to the hard of hearing. The combination of education in hearing and speech edu- cation and lip reading and the pro- vision of suitable devices for those who hear with such devices means & much happier world for these handi- ‘capped people in the future. It has been estimated that there are at least three million children in the United States who have defective hearing. Early attention to their de- fects is important from the economic point of view, since the provision of suitable education will make them better able to earn a living for them- selves and to live normal social lives in the future. TODAY {(S THE- ARRIVAL OF SURGEONS On’May 26, 1917, the first sanitary squadron of the American Expedi- tionary corps arrived in Paris from London on its way to the front. It received a tremendous ovation. The squadron was composed of 150 Physicians, surgeons and 75 nurses, who marched through the streets with the American flag flyiug and drum and fifes playing. They pro- ceeded to a British camp in the sub- urbs of Paris, which had been placed at their disposal. On this day a German airplane raid was made on the southeast coast of England. Seventy persons were killed and 174 injured. The raid occurred at 6 in the evening while most of the victims were doing their supper shop- Ping. [BARBS | 7 Speaking of Spanish omelets, how about the scramble in Alfonso’s old kingdom? * ee A California girl sued for $35,000 damages when she lost her sense of smell :n an auto accident, She'll be lucky if she gets a scent, * oe OK When Will Shakespeare said, “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” he couldn’t have foreseen, of course, such a thing as a depression, * oe Oe A teamster in San Francisco was awarded damages when he fell off a wagon and broke his artificial leg. ‘There's a corker! xe e Some movie stars show more than an interest in reels when they fish for compliments. ** * “That's a dangerous case,” as the dry agent said looking over a seizure of contraband. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TORTOISE SHELL, RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN = INDIA, |S MORE THAN SEVEN y FEET IN LENGTH... THE TORTOISE New York, May 26.—(?)—Most vis- itors to Manhattan run at the sug- gestion of names that long have be- come asociated with extravagance and Costliness. Yet, surprisingly enough, most such concerns have a bit of something for anyone, whatever their means, A spender’s inferiority complex somehow seems to seize the sojourner for the simple reason that a swanky doorman, with a ritzy look, stands in cae of @ certain shop or hotel or cafe. = One jewelry concern, with a na- tional reputation for super-swank, still gets out a catalogue of articles priced at from $1 to $50. At this same concern, however, it would be just as simple to spend $10,000 and receive not so much as @ lifted eye- brow from the salesman, Cartier’s, for instance, has fright- ened many a timid tourist from its doorway because of the splendorous tales circulated for many years, To be sure, fabulous truths have mingled with the fabulous fictions of such places. It is perfectly trué that Cartier’s has figured in deals requiring a king’s ransom, whether for a purchase or a sale. There was, for instance, the half-million-dollar deal involving the historic Thiers’ necklace, which once had a place in the Louvre. And there are parts of the silver set ordered by Napoleon just before his fall,’ but never of any service to him. And it was at Black, Starr and Frost’s that Peggy Joyce got the 125- karat diamond that has figured so often in stories about her—a trinket that was said to have cost $250,000 or more. And at Mauboisson’s one may see, in a glass case, the amazing Nassak diamond, for which men have died and lived; one of the few gems to find a place in the histories of pre- cious stones. Yet, I've known people to buy things at such spots for a couple of dollars. Tl admit, I wouldn’t have the nerve, either. ese * At any rate, I’ve permanently given up any ambitions I may ever have had to be an after-dinner speaker. No one has been more intolerant to- ward this clan than myself. Here- after, E shall try and be more patient. It happened like this: The other day I received a note saying that the Newsaper Women's club of New York wished I would come to a little infor- mal dinner party and “talk to the girls.” Well, that seemed all right. But arriving late, I took one glimpse at the speakers’ table. And there I saw, reading from left to right: Charles Hanson Towne, one of those brilliant old-timers of a gen- eration that went in for wit and rep- artee in a big way.. Next came Bob (Robert) Davis, one of the most fa- mous after-dinner story teers next to Irvin Cobb, And there was Harry Hershfeld, who has become almost a master of ceremonies. There were half a dozen others, all numbered among the who's who in brilliance. And by the time I reached my seat, I was feeling small enough to ask the waiter for a high chair and bib. Somehow, I lived through the eve- ning, as we have all lived throug! tough spots. I haven't the slightest idea what it was I stuttered out, but somehow, I have a feeling that I gained little prestige—or whatever it is. i , I'm prepared to cancel alll Anyhow, nts. future lecture oe SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) [ Stickler Solution j next, To his it cut thy business man, started in a bush lea; Home Run King, doesn’t believe playe In a final Rimes : Bert Rushe might SYNOPSIS: Bert ahe male brother, Harry, the ma. Bert will ever make s big league game for the Tri-State League pennant, wherein nothing for his Cpe ed if his team loses, he finds against it in th when Five league, and yet his famous older he goes in the box. | the first place, I was afraid that I had too much on my mind to concentrate properly. But I managed to get hold of myself, I remembered all that my brother had told me about never getting “fussed.” My chief job was to prevent the Chesters from piling up any more runs during the remaining three frames. _ I would do the best I could with the stick, but hurling was my real game, and if I did a good job then the other boys would take more courage and try and bring in suffi- cient runs to at least win by one run. With the idea of concentrating on, my pitching, I went back to an old le [Trick Bals___—id| | Slavin of the Chesters was first man up. While he was a pitcher, he was also no slouch with willow. So I up with great care and tried m favorite, the very sharp and deep drop that I had by this time managed to groove down him crisply that it was a strike. As soon as the ball came back I caught it and half swung around as if the force of catching it did that, but when I swung back agein I sent the pill right down. Slavin was scarcely ready for it, although it was a slow ball. , Aside from being slow it was the same old “jug-handle” and again he “hit it where he mi it the first time,” es the old P| has it. A speed ball with all I was my next =, and Slavin dipped down too low for it. Allison fans were howl by this i Peete cae @ sor’ ie dance joy. Schmidt, then next Chester atsman, was pie. It was no credit to fan him. He was their first bag- man and seemed to reach out wil the stick the way he reached for the pill at first. Two down. T was glad that Jim Pearl wasn? up for the third. I would get him in the next lot. The third man was caught ouf on a sweet little foul. Well, the Chesters hadn’t added fny, mare to thelr string of seven Slavin, in the box for the Ches- ters this time, neatly fanned me, Evidently ay luck would be in my real job—pitching. But Cracken was as good as his funny name. He “cracked a beaut that made Chesters’ right and center field boys collide in tareicgaeyy ~ Result: in Yy, way. 2 Cracken got three bags instead of the two that the swat really One down and one on with Pudge Waters at bat an Red Flannigan coming next. It ae great to me as I the excited I was. This, I is what held me in ie deep and clean-cut ci I aways got out of it, espes er when in a tight situation. Little Edge didn’t fail us. Per- haps Slavin thought because was only five feet five he didn’t have enough power to push @ speed ball beyond the infield. It was a mistake, for Pudge “ate up” oy Bpeed balls and socked this one ae and Cracken came home ly. dared, and Red didn’t 1» al- though he missed the 0, and it "looked bad. Red got a beautiful single. Pudge moved up Red showed us that not he jr aged on first and a wal- loper with the stick, but that he could also play monkeyshines be- ‘tween bases and keep the pitcher ae a put over a@ neat thing when he started for second, as though he was [— to make it, and the ball was hurled to the second Pudge came home and Red was safe. The Chesters tightened up right then and two more went down. But here we were, at the begin- ning of the eighth, and from the worrisome 7 to 4 the score stood me, for he nicl the ball for a couple of fouls before I managed ta get him down. And then : corner of the plat informed hin : ag 28 gr so i & a gE tee thought T Ey i but it was in wes left and wit as calm as ever, lon of @ second more & rite a8 ne 2 B § ta be wa #8 eve or Cracken oF the stick, but it was Poli, A solit finger had sent our cen- terfielder in and so Poli was out there for two innings. Poli pranced around and I had vision of a monkey-on-a-stick act in which he would poke three holes in the air and go back and sit down. But Poli did nothing of the sort. He let a good one pass with only a srimace and then swung at one Which seemed to me a foot off the Ee. He lifted that in a beauti- ‘ul loop, or, rather, an arc, too high to jump for and not high enough to permit a fielder to get under it, and so I sprinted home with our man who was at second almost stepping on ‘my heels, for he was our best sprinter. Poli made a dash of it and hung on second bag. Probably a couple of hundred end- of-the-season straw hats went into the air, came out on the field, or were smashed down over the heads of jubilant Allison fans. Bint to seven. lison ahead! I know that many people will say, “What a lot of runs! How amateur= . I like to see a one-to-nothing game.” Ask any hard-boiled fan and he will tell you different. If you want to see technical, perfect baseball, watch a one-to-nothing game, ou want thrills and excitement and Reaps of action for the cost of your admission ticket, witness a game where both sides pile up five or more runs. Well, here we were, ready for the ra I could shut them out the game would be over;.we would win by 4 run, I would collect a season's sal- ary, Hadley would win his big bet from Chalmers, and I would have succeeded in my springtime deter- mination to help take the pennant ‘away from the Chesters. ere was one consolation, if I had good luck and they didn’t sock me all over the diamond, I wouldn’t have to hurl any down to Jim Sil- ver, the hardest man to date I had ever managed to fan, The first man up, just an aver= age batsman, I got two strikes and I was. elated. The third tin.> came the crack that so cheers the man at bat and disheartens the ae. le got to first and part way ground to second, turning and slid- ing back in time. No clean shutout this inning, but if only I prevented any one from proce | pie plate I didn’t mind how, many hits they got, ‘The second man cracked the ball Femon tobe ergicful. Wristna soe mn to be grateful. It came right back into my hands, as though we Ahad just been playing “toss,” anc almost before the batter knew it he was looking at Flannigan on first with the pill in his hand, grinning = a Roepe cat and his freckles out in the su 6 like burnished copper dots, ae One on first, one down. But the next man worrled me. He could sure sock the ball, Should oe a puso: ae he — man clear aroun should I walk him? di I decided to take a chance. To my surprise he had lost his eye, as we say. He reached for one, but it wasn’t there. ‘Then he jumped back from the next one, only to see it curve out and hear the : ird ball seem to me to drop far ing, and the umpire seemed to think it was a strike and told him so. Two down. ‘The next man had an eagle eye. Or perhaps the umpire was a bit hazy, although the chances are that I was weakening a little. \y rate it came to a it where I had two strikes on him and the great big “if” again, If it wasn’t over he would walk. If he swung and socked it, what would happen? And it I fanned him the game and the Season would be over. I proceeded to wind up. I had a faint suspicion of cold chills down my spine. I didn’t dare admit to myself that I was nervous, Finally I started ‘Who wouldn’t be Pocterst with ni Bert keep his ®& season’s (Copyright, 1929, Graphic Syndicate, Inc.) ‘The voter will express himself next year. If he is a dry Democrat, he will vote against the wet Republicans, and if he's a dry Republican he'll vote against the wet Democrats. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: