The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1931, Page 4

2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1981 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) "Published by The Bismarck ‘Tribune Company, Bis- Bismarck marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at class mail matter. Mi Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ........ Daily by mail per year Gin Bismarck) Daily by mail . Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK Sign of the Times There is a well-defined hostility against increased taxation throughout the state of North Dakota. The ease with which nearly 10,000 signatures were secured to refer the four-cent gasoline tax is indicative. It is not the intent of this editorial to go into the merits) or demerits of the gas tax increase. The significance, however, of the reaction to increased taxation is one which all political divisions and taxing bodies should note. Some of our greatest economists and industrial lead- ers have been sounding the warning against more taxa- tion. In certain cities the burden is so great that some of the depression now present is directly chargeable to exorbitant and paralyzing taxation. Tt is not easy and not usually popular to oppose tax! increases in normal times. The great percentage of peo- ple who vote for new schools and for other public build- ings do not pay much of the tax directly and are often led into an orgy of spending on that theory. Their diagnosis is wrong in part, for in effect, indirectly, they pay the tax load in increased rents and living costs. A great portion of any tax always is shifted to the ulti- mate consumer. The time has come in this state to slow up on public work of all kinds until the period of adjustment is over. ‘Taxpayers must be given a breathing spell in this and other cities before new ventures are broached, however meritorious and necessitous they may appear. Legislative bodies, city commissions, school boards and other public agencies should apply themselves, as are all wise business men, to the practice of strict economy in the expenditure of funds. Many elements entered into the suspension of the four-cent gas tax. A certain group felt that the legis- lature ignored a popular mandate in passing a law de- feated at the polls. Again, there is a growing feeling that certain highway policies are not sound or construc- tive and that until confidence is restored there no more. money should be placed in administration hands. Whether that attitude is just or unjust, this editorial is not saying, but the ease with which the tax was nullified by petition is significant even to the most cal- lous political boss. The crux of the whole situation is a protest from a tax-weary electorate in no mood for new raids upon th¢ public purse. Tt is a most significant and healthy trend. No Longer Alone When Charles A. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in one hop he acquired, along with fame and wealth, thc title of, the Lone Eagle. The idea of a tall young man daring death alone struck the imagination of the American people and Lindbergh became a greater national hero and a more important national figure than any of the men who risked their lives in the service of the nation in its last! war, This may or not be as it should, but there is no cause for complaint because the world was too busy look- ing after more important matters to be particularly re- gardful of its heroes in the days when the world was aflame. “As long as fame and fortune came to Lindbergh, however, it is interesting to note the manner in which he has conducted himself. On this score there can be nothing but approbation. Since his epochal flight he has gotten married and settled down to the business of making aerial transportation in America a safer and more feasible proposition for the average individual, He seems to have done rather well at it too. For a long time Lindbergh was embarrassed and both- ered by over-enthusiastic news hounds. What he said er did was regarded as something of consequence. He had difficulty in retaining his status as a normal young American, not only because he was continually being harassed but because the praise and adulation of a nation is not an easy thing for a youngster to carry without losing his mental balance. For the last year or so Lindbergh has not been so prominently in the news. He bobs up here and there but not as a big figure. Now, however, the Lone Eagle hits the headlines again. He is going to Asia by air, the trip including a jaunt. across the North Pacific. And, like a dutiful young hus- band, he is taking his wife along. ‘The cynical might accuse Lindbergh of seeking the front page again but the average citizen will not agree, for if Lindbergh regarded the flight as dangerous or sen- sational he hardly would be taking his wife along. He: must be something of a salesman, too, for he apparentiy has convinced Mrs. Lindbergh that the plan is perfectly feasible; otherwise she wouldn't be going and she wouldn't permit him to go. What the young husband is doing is to give a demon- stration of the progress of aviation since that day, five years ago, when he landed in Paris. It will be all the more impressive because of the fact soccecoeee President and Publisher rr occupying this new frontier, we should be mindful of the men. We are not, however, without a remaining frontier, but it is not of the physical kind and must be sought in the mental and spirituat realm. So we were told by Dean W. F. Russell of Columbia university in a speech de-| livered a few days ago before the American Association of Adult Education. He believes the unemployment brought about by the changing conditions of the new machine age can be remedied in a large measure by training men and women for new jobs and a new start in life. “There is a frontier without and a frontier within,” says the Columbia dean. “Now that the external fron- tier ts closed and its good lands occupied, we can turn to the frontier within, which never can be closed. In allures of the old west: the different job and the new start, the obstacles to be overcome, the equality of op- portunity, and the reopened door of hope for fame and fortune. These should be the standards of adult edu- cation.” Coincident with the delivery of Dean Russell's ad- dress, a book dealing with the problems of unemploy- ment was issued in which the authors, Paul H. Douglas and Aaron Director, have proved quite conclusively through historical research that the displacement of workers by machinery will not continue as a permanent Problem. The hardships brought about by technical Progress are of course very real, but are sure to be rem- edied by the adjustments which will follow. The present situation in America is not unlike the in- dustrial revolution in England a century or more ago, when the introduction of machinery brought on a era of widespread idleness and distress. England's predicament at that time was largely due to the fact that it had no frontiers close at hand to absorb the army of unem- ployed. A question will of course be raised as to the reality of the “frontiers” suggested by Professor Russell, but one} thing remains certain: Nothing has ever stood in the} way of the idealism, inventiveness and daring which are| fundamental traits of American character; and in view of the many monumental difficulties that our people have | overcome in the past, the present one presents no in- superable difficulties. Then and Now At @ recent meeting in Bismarck, representatives of varicus insurance companies scored carelessness as the grertest single enemy to the health, wealth and happi- ness of the individual. Their application of the thought referred directly to loss of life and property as the re- sult of fire, but one of the men offered proof that it is no: more devastating now than it was 15 years ago. | The proof in question was a clipping from the Editor- ial Digest of March 25, 1916, reprinting an article pub- lished originally by the Toledo Blade, an Ohio newspaper. Tt reads: Riddles are bad enough, but a riddle with a moral! .... that is too much! Still, in the case of the riddle propounded by the Toledo Blade, the moral is a good one and the riddle is sufficiently puzzling to inspire some interest. We are ap- parently confronted with a description of our greatest common enemy. What is this mon- ster?— I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world. I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nations. I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest slege- guns. I steal, in the United States alone, over $300,000,000 each year. I spare no one, and I find my victims among the rich and poor alike, the young and old, the strong and weak. Widows and orphans know me. I loom up to such proportions that I cast my shadow over every field of labor, from the turn- che ing of the grindstone to the moving of every rail- a road train, I massacre thousands upon thousands of wage- earners @ year. I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently. You are warned against me, but ia you heed not. da: I am relentless. a I am everywhere—in the house, on the street, in the factory, at railroad-crossings, and on the sea. I bring sickness, degradation, and death, and yet few seek to avoid me. I destroy, crush, and maim; I give nothing, but take all. I am your worst enemy. What is the answer? Do you say “drink” or “hatred” or “self-interest”? The answer is given in the words of the riddle: “I am carelessness.” ge but nal be ty The statistics given 15 years ago hardly are accurate today. The wealth and population of the nation have increased since then and so has the damage wrought by carelessness, sistent campaigns to educate the public away from care- lessness and toward carefulness. Yet the accident toll from all causes increases, the loss from fire and similar Preventable causes continues to mount. What the figures would show were it not for the cam- Paigns directed toward public safety, fire prevention and similar purposes it is hard to say. They certainly must. have accomplished something. And until a better method of attack can be found it probably will be necessary for the agencies interested to keep plugging away on the present basis, even though the results in 15 years have not been overly encouraging. by Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- ‘une’s policies. Churches in China (St. Paul Dispatch) Action of the American Congregational Mission in withdrawing from Fukien Province, China, is coincident with pleas of friends of the Nationalist government that aed churches suspend their mission activities in the There have been, in the past few months, expressions Chinese journals urging the various mission societies that the Lone Eagle of yesterday no longer flies alone. The New Frontier ‘The old frontier is gone and @ new one is in the mak- ing. As long as the old one remained, with is beckohing rainbow, it provided @ safety valve for the older com- munities where opportunities had become restricted and where the spectre of unemployment and discontent had Degun to lurk. As long as good land in the west awaited! course ‘the and. with gun, plow and s few bags of seed fare to meet the hardships of the unknown. Manf of ‘who took the rainbow trail left their bones to bleach by the wayside, but the greater number found new homes, gee the interior /to suspend, at least temporarily, their forts at conversion. Native critics have charged that of doctrine and the contradictions of teach- luced benefits to the minimum while what been obtained have come only through a loss the government has been unable to pre- ATE "EE Hy HG with which mission workers have carried the gospel to| Br or Coane, S-stbaey so Mle Telgious dooney Perhaps, withdrawal the Chinese and effected by the might be for the time Hine and an unusual problem to our educators and states- | At any rate, lounging on an elaborate moving pic- ture set over in Astoria, L. I., when Charlie Ruggles, the character comic, recalled a “practical joke” tale of the old theater. It was back in Los An- New York, June 5—It was the re- cent “practical joke” experience of a Manhattan hearse driver that led to the spinning of the forthcoming yarn. If you missed the hearse driver story, then briefly it went like this: After the Kentucky Derby, a note ar- rived telling the young man that he had won a certain pool of $25,000. The New York newspaper carried his Photo and interviewed him on what he was going to do with all that money; he drew $100 from the bank and gave all the boys a large party that night—and the next learned that it was a hoax arranged ‘by the undertaking parlor lads, seek- ing to amuse themselves between fu- nerals. morning eee several of us were les when :he old Morosco was oper- ating as a popular-priced stock com- Pany theater. Louis Stone, now anl eminent film performer, was leading man of many a romantic play; Rug- gles was Schertzinger was leader of the or- the juvenile and Victor estra. I was variously an usher and backstage flunky, sneaking away from high school because the stage interested me more. Stock players in those days received it modest wages, and Stone, Ruggles and the musical director sought to in- crease their worldly goods by dabbling w and then in race horse bets. One y, just before a matinee, they got tip that a horse with some-such me as Golden Dawn was “going to brought in.” So the three pooled such money as they had at the mo- ment and tossed it on this long shot, which was listed at about 15 to 1. “Well,” as time of the race was that of the last act of the play. And, since we were terribly anxious to know how we came out, I arranged to have a friend noti- Ruggles relates, “the me in my dressing room. “But Victor, who had to be in the orchestra pit, was as worried as the rest of us. result too. So I said I would try and find some way of giving him the in- formation in the lines I spoke from the stage. He wanted to know the I explained that I would _ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree! , Gosn?. UM HUNGRY AND STARVING To, OeaTH! Dai in U. S. But By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine Everyone knows that some varieti are dangerous to eat or dangerous contact. in the world and one authority growing in that state. Poison ivy parently a special sensitivity to parently without harm. growing in the United States. tree hasbeen mistaken for that of t! honey locust. Daffodil bulbs taken. Powerful drugs and poisons known. Children have been reported eating the shoots of mountain laur deadly nightshade are also sources serious poisons. The castor oil bean contains rici: r. horse had won. Stone and I we: band pit. “At that moment my cue came. gered on, collapsing as usual. As in this vision?” “I fairly shouted’ over the foo! over a hill--faster and faster com try to ad jib something that would During those 15 years we have had more or less con-| 8ive him a tip-off. “Now the play in which we were appearing was a melodramatic war Play. And in the last act, I was shot the enemy while carrying a mess- age throuzh the lines. Then I col- lapsed on the stage and whispered my last words into the ears of Louis suing storms.’ “There were, of course, no such lines in the play. I had managed to get the news about our horse over the footlights, but all the actors stood around wondering if I had gone nutty. I had to hurry back to my cueline, before they got mixed up, and Victor was so excited he could hardly wait THIS CURIOUS WORLD IN THE BOK BIRO® SANCTUARY NEAR LAKE WALES, FLORIDA, CONTAINS BELLS RANGING IN WEIGHT FROM 12 TONS TO '2 Pounds... HIMNEY WIFI SOMETMES FLAP THEIR WINGS ALTERNATELY WHILE FLYING... ly Health Service POISON FROM PLANTS Expert Names 30 Particularly Dangerous Kinds Growing Journal of the American of mushrooms are poisonous, but few people realize that many other plants According to Dr. E. O. Jordan, there are several thousand poisonous plants Michigan lists 156 poisonous plants much more dangerous to some people than to others, because there is ap- Domestic animals eat poison ivy ap- A representative of the United States Department of Agriculture listed 30 important poisonous plants He mentions the leaves of the false hele- bore, from which a drug is made. The fruit pulp of the Kentucky coffee a food are poisonous. The monks- yhood root has been taken by mistake for horseradish. From the monks- hood root is made one of the most mistaking it for wintergreen. Black henbane seeds or the berries of the one of the most powerful poisons known, and the eating of these beans Oe ieee Deer ence eA aie tS nN RE een ted) NCR eee Stone, who played the commanding of: “Just before I went on with the scene, the message- came that our Prancing about back-stage. He went on, and then I began to wonder how I could get the news to Victor in the back-stage shot was fired and I stag- ‘was supposed to be lying there, dying, @ vision was also supposed to come to “Stone's lines went something like this: ‘And what do you see, my boy, lights, ‘I see a Golden Dawn coming the Golden Dawn, beating all pur- Fatalities Are Few has caused the death of children’ A single castor bean has caused dan- gerous symptoms within five minutes in an adult; three beans have caused Serious illness, and a case is on record in which five beans when eaten caused death. The dangerous poison of the castor oil bean, which is ricin, is not, of course, the same as the pur- gative substance present in castor oil. A case is cited in which 32 boys from a Brooklyn orphan asylum ate bark stripped from black locust posts that were being used in putting up a fence. All of the boys vomited, had high fever and dilated pupils, but for- tunately none of them died. The hemlock is known as a poison since the time when the famous philoso- pher drank of it and since the time when the Greeks used it to put crim- inals to death. Sour-grass is rich in oxalic acid, and the substance appears also in coca powder, pepper, spinach and rhubarb. There are cases in which the. eating of rhubarb has caused oxalic-acid poisoning. It results par- ticularly when the rhubarb leaves happen to be used as greens. Several deaths are reported from this cause. There are also cases of serious illness from eating the leaf stalks. Potatoes prematurely harvested, Soft potatoes or those that turn green on exposure to light contain a toxic substance which is also present in the deadly nightshade and which can Produce serious illness as well as death. Fortunately the number of deaths from all of these causes is small. jes to in is it. he as as el, of in, for the curtain. Without washing make-up off, we all ran next door to a little beer place—for this was before |prohibition—and began to plan a grand celebration with our money. “But, alas, before dinner time, we learned that my friend had just been funny. Our horse had not won and we had our dinner over the free- lunch counter,” re ee ILBERT SWAN. G '1| (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TODAY IS THE-Z V, te es, GERMAN AIR RAID On June 5, 1917, the third of a se- ries of air raids took place when 16 German airplanes came over the North Sea and dropped many bombs on the small towns and villuges in Essex and Kent, Only 14 of the raiders returned to their home base, for two,were brought down by British guns.‘ The British casaulties were low, orly two being killed and 29 injured. The raiders next met With a lively reception, extra precautions having. been taken by British authorities after the previous raid. The Ger- mans were attacked by British avi- ators before they had an opportunity to carry out their raiding intentions to any great extent, and the British anti-aircraft guns were very effective: ‘The official statement said that the raiders also attacked the naval estab- lishments in the Medway. A consid- erable number of bombs were dropped and a certain amount of damage was done to house property, but the dam- age done to naval and military estab- lishments was practically negl:gible. The greatest crime is laziness, and business does not weicome the lazy man. The second crime is self-satis- faction. Business dislikes the self- satisfied Selfridge. Pe | Stickler Solution i — when the time came for Harry’s team. i with some of my . theres 8 Shatiee that Buckbee won’t put me in the box against Harry,” I said. NOt ‘@ chance,” McPherson, de- clared, “do you think that — would let anything like that ge past him?” ‘ “Sure not,” Lon Hale agreed, “it’s box office stuff, Bert.” seen eh They were calling me, “Bert” it wae’ @ pleasing sign. Sometimes a new man is considered still & “rookie” jose @ season and al- Ways addressed as “Kid.” “Buckbee will have you up there all right,” Kirby assured me. \ easy, but 0 guess it won't kill me,” I told them, en we fot back to Chicago 1 found that Dolly new show was playing there. That surprised me be- cause I thought it was still running in New York. l Dolly Again | I dropped around back in the evening t, see some of the people I knew, but I didn’t expect to find Dolly because she wasn't playing now. She had become a producer and was living up to it. To my surprise Dolly was there me with a squeal of delight and a big hug and kiss. ke it was the matter, Dolly, that the show didn’t stick to New York— Hi ee it was good all summer?” ‘oa My dear boy, it’s right there. \This is my second company. I came on _to get it started.” Dolly had been one of the many to send me a crete me the Ts announce at Eigned up with the Loopers, “How's it going in the big league? I knew you'd finally get there,” she I told her everything seemed to be Jak ce, “Have supper with me after the show,” she Besged. “No can do; have to hit the hay early. Got a {#:me tomorrow, Dolly, but pop around and have dinnci with me. I'll meet you about 6, any place.” We fixed a meetii lace. There T'wanted td talk about was a lot ant with her and thought it best not T left her and to start it then. So got my sleep. rebgme seem to think that to a pro: ional player one musi just like another. Not so with some new angie, lis ion, and the of suspense and of anticipation al- way me. fe had a lively game that after- noon and won irom the Indians. ‘They sure gave us liso of hard work, As usual, Buckbee let me in the box for a few frames, and as usual I didn’t set the baseball world afire, nor did I let them bat me out of the box. I was satisfied about it and felt that the time I was learning things t I had never ex- perienced in any of the minor league games. I met Dolly and we went to a nice place for dinner. “What's on your mind, hand- some?” she asked. “Where's Mona Lorrin?” I asked gag “Well, for Fate's reed Dally you mooning over that thing?” ex- claimed in di “Til moon her if ever I get the chance,” I declared, “Don’t tell me that she done you dirt—deceived you, or something, you poor li'l’ innocent thing!” “It isn’t funny. She happens to be a friend, or at least an acquaint- ance, of Mavis Merrill, and she la- dled out a lot of filthy lies to Mavis about us. Mavis believes them.” Dolly looked at me queerly. “Still in love with this Mavis Merrill?” “I am, although that doesn’t do me any |. She's off me now worse than ever. Aren’t you inter= ested in the lies Mona passed out about us?” » because they aren't “Not ve true—and I wish they were!” “Thanks 8 lot and all that, Dolly, but I'm serious. Mona filled Mavis pp with a lot of bunk about you and being—more than pals. Mavis Sinks you are or have been my se" we you want me to fix it up for t “You can’t, She wouldn't believe “But why didn’t you tell her, Bert? She would believe you.” So I ex ed about the sudden Sst Man tee ee ve to her at that time. Where is Mona?” I asked. “Playing second lead in that new show, “Deodar Lane.’ It’s likely to stick out the season, as it isn’t a summer show.” “Wait until I get to New ¥ Tl hunt that dame up and Tell net & few things,” I declared, alvaps irc ieee ae But Ill be in New. York. 820 me first, and perhaps I can help you straighten gs out.” I promised to see her, but shook Blitt i, sa PS a that couldn’t be done, eee “Well,” Dolly said, “we were ale ‘Ways chummy in those shows and, of course, Mona knew that you were came nearer the time when we were to meet the Gothams, I got rather nervous. ~ We were having game Face pantine whe som They this seasons Aut ot 50 teedy as the other St. Louis | would be quite a while before we got up against the Gothams, according to the schedule. " That suited me. The Hata saad Hp gd we | the better condition these fast top-leaguers ee ae dainst Ty OUR friends. | -“Pat the iia m; put Rushe in Ym _shot,” he said to Buckbee. “Too bat Rushe isn’t in suc} good form, either. What the so- and-so is the matter with you boys? Di all go on a boom party last night?” Buckbee was sore and worried. “Try and G34 the runs; never mind the hits,” he said to me. So I was elected for two more in- 8. That would make five, and here- tofore four had been my limit in one game. “Here's where we murder ’em,” } heard one of the Browns say as J was starting for the box. : I sup; he had_every right te say it, for I sure had been far from hot when I tossed for the first three innings. But it made me sore. On my way to the box I signaled Noyes, and he was ready. The um- pire tossed me a brand new ball, I sup] the batter expected me to fool around with it, toss it in the dirt and take some of the luster from it, But I didn’t do anything of the sort. The moment the ball came to my hands I let it drive. It was too sudden a throw ani went wild. The batsman, to my surprise, reached for it. It was away out o' the way and he missed it, but his mighty swing couldn’t be pulled in time and a hoot of derision went up from the fans because he had swung at it at all. That gave me plenty of courage and I drilled the next one down with the knuckles. It wavered craz- iy, as those balls almost always do. The lad at the gt evidently believed it would be another wide ball and he didn't intend to be fooled, so he didn’t swing at all and the pill wavered and turned in sweetly, across @ corner of the plate. “Strike tuh!” the umpire informed him. “Wha-at?” howled the batsman. Then he grinned and tapped the Plate with, the bat. Tana wound up slowly an al the time I dared. i ‘When it went down it was travel- ing with my best speed, and, while I was no Walter Johnson, it had Jenty of stuff on it and came along like a shot. The man at the plate grinned as he le @ beautiful straight swat at it, He expected to smack it for fair. Perhaps it didn’t occur to him pet ne ert ieee two freak balls woul lo anything else except per dro} and it ducked beautifully. 6 The man had been neatly fanned. And he was pee who had said, at I was to be put it box, “Here's where we murder ‘The second man reached out and socked an outcurve for a clean i single, but the third man up went \ down at once, and the second man hadn’t moved far from the first { Not So Good | mene so _ ace had told vent runs and not about hits. “Easier said than done, t even with clockwork fielding. Karle of the Browns f; next, and he was their atting home I had seen that baby work, and he seemed to have a faculty of finding the pill and jolting it for at least a Eouple of tee fasses cama ree ba; ims in this game. ‘pia for wa ‘ Karle had his batting eye the job for the first two Heeen made a move and got plenty of ap- Plause for having such a good eye. But he slammed at the third one, which was also just off the plate, and seemed to have reached Plenty far enough, for there was a sharp crack as willow socked .the horsehide. ‘ see how far out in the nae e le le ball was traveling, Was speeding for first, and it me tainly looked like @ run-around for him, pushing one man ahead of Bert is getting a taste & means" 0 play against i league men. Karle of the Browns? ane Read tomorrow's installment of meets his breinert” | "hen Bert BARBS As the farmer would 7 it with showers, peat: * * * Now they're saying Germany is po- lite Fad can joes this customs-unton controversy use she’s on Curtis diplomacy, eonraaing The di ‘ aye le dagger look, says the office sage, is often more eloqui mee eee loquent than the a * oe & 's one close shave tl for the Scotch barber" “%® other, (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Se aunatiemaenne ee) FLAPPER FANNY Says; U.S. PAT, ° Say v « It doesn’ with ateg paRROVE Your Tuck to fia