The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 198 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 2 An Independent Newspaper i THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘@8 second class mail matter. « President and Publisher D. Mann ......0. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ... sees Daily by mail per year (in Bismarck Daily by mail per year n state, outside Bismarck) Daily by mail outside of North Dal ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year . ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, POL YORE oiccscecssesscees ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per year oe 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 also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS i (Incorporated) ? Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. { CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON ———. Survival of the Fittest Recently The Tribune had something to say about the problems of the railroads—the more immediate problem of making both ends meet by adjustment of rates, wages, faxes, interest, etc. The bigger problem of readjustment of the railroads through consolidations was not touched upon. Competi- tion of many forms of transportation, undreamed cf when. the steam car was taking business away from the steam- boat and building its tracks along the great waterways of the nation, complicate rail operation today. The slow moving side-wheeler and crawling tug got very little rympathy in those days. Everyone was for the faster and more efficient iron horse which made the route in; hours that took days and weeks on the river freighter. Fitting Tribute It was a fitting tribute which President Hoover paid Tuesday to the late President Warren G. Harding on the occasion of the dedication of the Harding tomb at Marion, Ohio. The brief speech which the president made revealed something of his own character as well as shed some new light upon the dead president, whose character and record remain something of an enigma to the public at large. More has been written and said about Harding than about any of our recent presidents—and not all of it has been wholesome. Those who had stomach for it regaled themselves a few years ago with “The President's Daugh- ter,” a book which purported to deal intimately with the private life of the one-time chief executive. There also was “Revelry,” a book which claimed to give the “in- side” of the goings-on in Washington while Harding was 00) president, and more lately the infamous Gaston B. Means has contributed “The Strange Death of President Har- ding.” In each of these books there may have been a little truth, distorted and magnified in the hope of creating @ best seller. None of them give a fair picture of the man who assumed the burden of guiding the nation out of the throes in which it floundered after the World war and the treaty of Versailles. Hoover conjures for us the picture of a man who was himself so faithful to his friends that he could not ima- gine their being unfaithful to him. Great-hearted and broad-minded, Harding was distinctly a man of the peo- ple and it was he who bound up, as best he could, the wounds of war. The success which attended his efforts to restore political sanity and a rational view of busi- ness is liberally attested by the record of this country during the last 10 years. It was upon the foundation laid by Harding that the Coolidge administration estab- |lished its record. The nation should not forget, in at- tempting to estimate the worth of the Harding adminis- | tration, those factors which weigh heavily for good. | President Hoover did not and he is to be given credit | for rising to the defense of his friend’s good name on the | occasion of this dedication of the Harding tomb. | If the way to gain a friend is to be one, Hoover Tues- | day proved himself worthy of personal friendship. The fact that his friend now lies cold in the grave and that {he gained no appreciative handclasp in recognition of his tribute, makes Hoover's action all the more com- Whatever else may be said of the president, He did not hesitate to cut through the | mendable. |he is no quitter. But that competition with the steamboat has resulted) smoke screen which the muckrackers have thrown about today in a tangle of rail systems which, in some degree, | 4s responsible too for the present financial complica- tions. River competition eliminated, there followed com- the Harding administration. On the other hand the president made no attempt to {excuse the shortcomings of his friend as president. He Petition between the carriers. Great systems raced tO’ condemns in ringing terms the activities of those alleged reach seaboard or the great freight producing centers.| rriends of Warren G. Harding who betrayed both him Competition with the steamboat was a dead issue ex-| and the nation. wept as the potential river route kept freight rates! down in the vicinity of such competition. After the steamboat, tug and inland canal ceased to}! menace the railroads, materially, came vigorous com- petition between the railroads themselves. Millions were) poured into railroads and vast regions opened up. Some) were great revenue producers and others proved a disap- pointment to the promoters. ‘There was talk of consolidations and mergers to pro-| fect earnings, but then states and federal authorities) fought them vigorously. One has only to recall the days) of the famous Hill-Harriman contest over the Northern) Securities combine. Hill lost in his merger in the early years of 1900 and today rail executives are begging for this same kind of protection. One writer on transportation declares that the slogan today is “Consolidate, Straighten Out, or Dic.” Excessive competition has produced a system of rail-) roads which, in view of the industrial situation of 1931, is hard to operate at a profit. Several important mergers | nation’s newspaper offices in recent years. For Hoover feels in his heart that Harding really was | the victim of his own blind confidence in men whom he liked. He appreciates how keenly Harding felt the igno- miny which was heaped upon him when it was shown) that Daugherty, Fall, Forbes, Miller, Jess Smith and the rest had used high office and his friendship for their selfish and illegal ends. One gets a new picture of Harding if he places cred- ence in a story which has gone the rounds of the It tells how Harding, when he learned of the manner in which Forbes. had looted the veterans’ bureau, leaving the nation’s) | wounded soldiers to suffer while he lined his pockets, | sent for Forbes. In his white house office he wrung the truth from Forbes’ unwilling lips and a great rage over- icame him. For Forbes had been his appointee; the gov- | ernment's failure to care for the shattered human wrecks | tossed up by the war had been his failure. And so his great hands clutched at Forbes’ flabby | throat. The wily tongue stuck out as the betrayer gasped }for breath. and consolidations have gone into effect already. More! wretner this story be true or a fable, one gets the idea| must follow. that Hoover thinks of Harding somewhat in that light. Economies of operation, if depleted revenues continue./rn6 people of Ohio think of him so, for they knew him must follow and doubtless a realignment of ail railroads! 44 toyed him, ‘They looked upon him as @ man, whose will bring about increased revenues faster than increased | | atest personal charm was his greatest political weak- rates. That process, however, is slow. Public opinion and governmental policy have opposed many necessary) mergers and consolidations. It is not going ‘o be an) easy process to unscramble the transportation system built in a time when the whole industrial structure was &o different from what it is today. | The Receding Wave of Sophistication | The World war, which had such a cataclysmic effect} on mental outlooks and ethical standards, left a state| of moral anarchy in the nations affected which some-| ‘times made it impossible to maintain a line of demarca- | tion between right and wrong, truth and falsehood,) liberty and license. The young people who were reach-| ing adulthood when the war terminated, suddenly found} themselves in a limitless pasture with all the old bar-) riers broken down. The rules of life handed down by} parents and teachers were thrust aside and the “disillu-/ Bioned” youngsters joined in a revolt against blue laws fnd the social and intellectual restraint of the Victor- fan age. | Having attained their freedom, the young people set! out to study life at first hand, to scrutinize all its hid- @en seams and to formulate a new and realistic code of ethics. After being engaged in this adventure as Jong as the illusion lasted, many of its participants have retraced their steps, heart-hungry, soul-weary, and ready to admit that moral standards that have stood the test Zor 20 centuries cannot be ignored. To be sure, the returning stragglers have brought back mass of intellectual plunder. Most of this is utterly mworthless, but an occasional pearl of wisdom has been @iscovered that may endure and prove of social value. ‘Another useful result of the revolt is that the old stan- @ards have been cleaned up and stripped of numerous shams. These items will go far toward counteracting what might otherwise be called a 10-year social debauch. Since the war the printing presses have spewed forth y@ constant stream of books utterly devoid of love, modesty or reverence and preaching the sordid doctrines of irreligion, cynicism and despair. Such books have pictured the world going to mechanistic rack and ruin) end promising nothing but unhappiness ahead. Other essayists, novelists and playwrights have found it im- mensely profitable, financially, to produce lewd and shocking material that catered to the depraved moral taste of the period. These panderers to depravity are | now losing out because the people have become so used to having vulgarities paraded before their eyes that they no longer care. This negative attitude is at least a healthy sign and gives promise of a coming moral re- construction. ‘The present situation is graphically illustrated by an- other student, in these words: “Yesterday's youth, dis- gusted with traditional morality, traditional religion, traditional standards of beauty, threw the whole lot over- board. Today’s youth, disgusted both with traditional standards and with the chaotic results which have been achieved by throwing overboard those standards, is look- {ing for a re-statement of morality, of religion, of beauty, (of love.” |ness. This was his faithfulness to and his willingness to believe in his friends. Cadets and Kisses i ‘The company of cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy that surpasses the other companies in matters of drill, | athletics and all-around smartness has the privilege, each graduation day, of receiving the colors from the hands of a pretty girl. In former years the company commander who received the colors got, at the same time, a kiss from the pretty girl; but this year he had to go unkissed, by order of the academy authorities, who felt that the custom was un- dignified, flippant and vaguely unmilitary. It isn't any of our business, to be sure, but we can't help feeling that the authorities have made a mistake. Commencement time at any institution of learning is a time for kisses—and especially so at a place of uniforms and romantic traditions like the Naval Academy. Democracy rightly figures that the first step toward self-improvement is to get out of debt. 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 Tribe une's policies. Mr. Hoover Swings West (Minneapolis Tribune) By design or not, Mr. Hoover's itinerary does take him this week into territory where the citadels of Republican- ism are reported in a bad state of disrepair. The thought must at least have crossed his mind, as he set out for Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, that these were among the party strongholds of 1928 most disposed to crack and| crumble under the mid-term batterings of November, 1930. Thus Indiana, which gave Mr. Hoover a margin of very nearly 300,000 votes in 1928, was found two years \later replacing six Republican representatives in congress | with Democrats. Illinois will present to the president jthe enigma of a state which could go Hoover by ap- proximately 450,000 votes in 1928, and which could elect the Democratic J. Ham Lewis senator in 1930 by 745,000 votes. As for Ohio, Mr. Hoover can hardly recall the handsome margin of nearly 800,000 votes accorded him in 1928 without being disagreeably reminded, at the same time, that two years later the state discarded a Repub- lican senator and a Republican governor and replaced them with Democrats by pluralities running from 110,- 000 to 175,000. | It is probably no inaccuracy to say, then, that the president's swing through these states is in a sense an exploratory swing. By no stretch of the imagination is Mr. Hoover invading enémy territory, but he is at least entering territory which the Democrats have been led to believe, as a result of last November's defections to their ranks, is by no means impossible of capture. If the president ponders the significance of those defections on his tour west, or if he keeps an ear close to the ground to detect the faintest rumblings of sentiment, it will not be surprising. Where the extent of the mid- term political upheaval in these states is known, the signficance of that upheaval remains a trifle blurred and indistinct. We only know that local considerations One of the young women who recently bid farewell to must necessarily take on the form. of promiscuousness and that every baby is a mis- We think that a modernism that out and cynical at 30 is a flop. ‘We will have to siieve that life may hold beauty.” leaves You} wy Which had little or nothing to do with Mr. Hoover played wrote as follows: “We are not at all] their part in it, and that the economic situation and the discontent it engendered must have lain close to the roots of the vga ei eed Sey Be that as it may, the president can hardl without having sensed something of the nature and extent of the rebellion which is supposed to brooding over the states he visits. What Mr. Hoover of the middle west on this tour, and what the mid- of Mr. Hoover, could easily help to shape hence. For) New York, June 17.—The religious life of New York is one of its least known aspects. In fact, it seems to me I hear a snicker from somewhere at the very mention of the idea. Yet nearly 1,000,000 people go to cHurch each Sunday in Manhattan, and only a small percentage of these are visitors. There are some 600 churches :n New York City and twice that many in Greater New York. Sev- eral of these are among the city’s out- standing landmarks. In Fifth Avenue most of the churches keep open during the busy shopping hours and bear signs invit- ing the tired and weary ones to drop in for “a moment of prayer.” And you'd be surprised how many in the hectic throng find solace and renewed hope thereby. Hundreds of noon reli- gious meetings are held for business men, workers and shoppers. The “bishop of Wall Street” has become one of the city’s most famous figures. In lower Fifth Avenue, a_ pulpit opens out of a doorway and almost every day noon sermons are delivered to street throngs. Neighborhood sections have scores of churches about which the social life of the district swings, just as in thousands of small communities over the land. Ice cream socials are held in summer; Aunt Hattie brings a pie and some potato salad and the chil- dren are anused by various games. Much neighborhood welfare work quietly goes on from such church or- ganizations, through social centers are scattered throughout the tene- ment belt. es Furthermore, it's possible to find almost every belief under the sun Tepresented—from voodoo fanatics in Harlem basements, to mystical cults in the Sixties and Seventies, to Orien- tal temples and hallelujah missions down in the Bowery. Broadway has several “actors’” churches, of which St. Malachi’s is perhaps the best known. The Little Church Around the Corner has, of course, quite a following among thea- trical folk, since its liberal attitude toward the stage dates back to the days of Joseph Jefferson. An actor friend of Jefferson having died, the historic Joe went to a certain fash- fonable church to arrange for a fun- eral. He was told that no service for an “actor person” could be held there. Jefferson, greatly hurt by this recep- tion, inquired how he might bury his Daily Health Service Greater Efficiency Care in Modern Building Provides Privac: Once Shunned Reduces Expense of Hospital Even in Wards, by Middle Class By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association The people of the United States are not the only ones who are con- cerned with the gradual increase in the cost of medical care and particu- larly with the cost of hospital care. The problem is concerning the whole world, The development of hospitals, of specialties in medicine, of numerous advances in medical science both for diagnosis and treatment, and above all the necessity for two or three workers for each individual worker who was formerly employed explain a large part of the increased cost. Recently, Dr. M. Setz-has analyzed the reasons for the increase in the cost of hospital care in Germany. He says that the principal sources of ex- penditure in a large hospital are the catering, medical treatment, nursing, administration and the maintaining of special departments. Thus the hospital that is able to buy food in large quantities and store it can cater more cheaply than one which has not adequate storeroom facilities. Modern electric devices in the kitchen enable the hospital to operate with many less employes than are necessary when the dish washing, ‘vegetable slicing, and similar proce- | dures must be done by hand. The cost of nursing is being re- duced by group nursing and by simi- lar plans for dividing the service of one nurse among several patients. Cleaning in the hospital demands a considerable number of employes. If corners are rounded off, if radiators are properly recessed and if the building is equipped with the clean- ing question in mind, a much smaller number of ward maids and orderlies can be used than in institutions in saat this point has not been kept in Modern hospitals are being con- structed more and more with the idea of reducing the number of workers and in this way distributing the cost. Patients used to be sensitive on the subject of wards in hospitals. People of the middle class who were not ex- tremely free with their funds felt that in times of illness they had to make an extra effort in order to have a private room in the hospital. In modern hospitals, arrangements are being made to care for two, three, or four patients in a room especially adapted for the purpose with sliding screens so that almost a maximum of. privacy is furnished at a minimum of expense. = Large wards, containing from! 10 to 20 beds, are now found only in charity hospitals, and even here there is a tendency to build the hospital in such @ manner as to provide some privacy. ‘When four patients occupy one small ‘ward, they are able to save on the cost of nursing and on the other costs associated with hospital care. Next: ment. The Cost of medical treat- “Well, you might try that little church around the corner,” he was told. Which, by the way, is how one of the most .famous churches in America got its name, in case you didn’t already know. ** * All Saints’ Episcopal, in Henry street, was selected by Edward, of England, who visited America as Prince of Wales many years ago. The Wales crest adorns a balcony and, since it dates back to 1827, the last “slave gallery” to be found in New York may be seen there. The oldest building remaining in New York is a church—St. Paul’s on lower Broadway, with its historic gravestones. Trinity, just down the street, was built prior to St. Paul’s but has had to be rebuilt a couple of times since then. The pioneer of Fifth Avenue is the friend. Brick Presbyterian church, at 37th if K YOUR BALL OUT, QuicK ! HERE COMES “THY Gut = He'ue SwiPe iT. street. When built, the “avenoo” was merely a country road and here it was that Henry van Dyke became one of the great pastors of America. Its architecture is unique because the builders tried to mix the new “brown- stone” front vogue of the ‘eighties with the old tradition of red brick churches. The elaborate “show spots” in the Manhattan church world are, of course, St. John the Divine Cathedral which, if and when completed, will cost $15,000,000, and the famous St. Patrick's, un “the avenoo.” There are skyscraper churches and churches that blazon electric crosses, ‘;tions in the western part of North and there are tens of thousands of devout churchgoers who know little or nothing about the night life of the city—know less, in fact, than millions of outsiders who have read about it, at least. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TIMES T’ DAY! OUT OUR WAY By Williams LVE CHASED EM A DOZEN oo Bo SS R500 J.RWILL AMS PART OF NORTHWEST GROP IS EXCELLENT, FARMERS UNION SAYS Situation Has Improved Mate- rially in Last Two Weeks, Report Says Some areas in the Northwest spring wheat districts will produce excellent yields this year, while there will be marked failures in other territories. if present crop prospects materialize at threshing time, the Farmers’ Union Terminal association's weekly crop report says. “Conditions of crop generally in North Dakota on June 1 were the Poorest ever reported on that date— 67 per cent for spring wheat,” the re- cent government report says. The review reads: “However, there have been moderate to heavy rains throughout most of the grain terri- tory of the Northwest since the first of June. “The crop situation has improved materially in the last two weeks. The outlook in Minnesota is almost ideai as far as small grains are concerned and corn is getting a good start. In the Red river valley of western Min- nesota and eastern North Dakota the present crop outlook is almost perfect Grand Forks, Crookston, Buxton, Reynolds and Mayville report fine} Prospects. There have been several good showers and moisture reserves in this district are sufficient to carry grains along for some little time. “Heavy rains have fallen in Ran- som, LaMoure and other southeastern counties of North Dakota. There have been fair rains around Kathryn, Jamestown, Casselton, Forman, Kulm, Hope and other territories extending over most of the eastern half of the state. Crops are reported to be doing nicely around Karnak. “The situation, however, grows steadily worse as one studies condi- Dakota, particularly in the north- western quarter of the state. “While there have been some light rains around Williston and Minot, the condition has registered very slight improvement and even with fa- vorable weather from now until har- vest, it is doubtful if there could be more than a 50 to 60 per cent of nor- mal yield. There must be arequate rainfall within a week if the creps are going to amount to much of anything. “The situation also remains de- Pressing in northeastern and parts of Sooner or later, flighty young ladies come down to earth. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE On June 17, 1917, the Russian Duma, in secret session, voted in fa- vor of “an immediate offensive in close cooperation with Russia's allies.” The offensive began on July 1 and its initial success was encouraging. It seemed as though the miracle of the restoration of the Russian army hhad been achieved. “Here,” as John Spargo said, “was an army whose dead and wounded already amounted to more than 3,000,000 men, an army which had suffered incredible hard- ships, again going into battle with Songs. “On the first of July more than 36,000 prisoners were taken by the Russians on the southwestern front. Then came the tragic harvest of Bol- shevist propaganda, Regiment after regiment refused to obey or- ders. Officers were brutally mur- dered by their men. Along a@ front of more than 150 miles the Russians retreated without attempt- ing to fight, while the enemy steadily advanced. This was made possible by the agitation of the Bolsheviki, espe- cially by the mutiny they provoked among the troops in the garrison at Petrograd.” east central Montana, where drouth | @————__________» has damaged all grains. In western || BARBS | Dakota and eastern Montana there/g have been heavy losses from soil blowing. Conditions around Sanish, Stanley, Plaza and Van Hook, N. D., and Richland, Wolf Point and other eastern Montana points are showing virtually no improvement, and ex- ceedingly heavy rains would be neces- sary if conditions were to show any real improvement. Wolf Point reports that winter wheat is damaged almost 100 per cent, that cut worms are doing much harm, and that spring wheat has been hurt. In central and western Montana the Brazil is dumping tons of coffee into the Atlantic ocean. Mixing their drinks, as it were. ** * Ships are reported making fewer calls at the Virgin Islands. Perhaps it is now an ex-port. * * * The boa constrictor, it is said, can digest a golf ball. Next time you miss one, look for the snake in the grass. * oe OK It behooves the golfer to keep his crop situation is considerably better than in eastern, but only a fair crop at best is indicated. Reports from the territory in which the Thomas Campbell farms are located indicates heavy damage in that territory. Around Billings the situation is fairly good. “The rye crop promises to be one of the smallest in years. In the firs: place, acreage was considerably cur- tailed. Lack of moisture has dam- aged the rye prospects even in dis- tricts where wheat is good, according to reports from Fessenden, Williston |&™ and Buxton. “The crop outlook in northern South Dakota is reported much im- Proved, due to fairly heavy rains in recent weeks, “Bismarck reports that rains have greatly improved the crop conditions in west central North Dakota with wheat plants in good conditicn and early corn getting a good start, but steady rains are essential. There has ‘been more moisture south of the main line of the Northern Pacific than north of it.” News of Interest in N. D. Towns (By the Associated Press) Aneta—Miss Beulah Johnson was awarded ‘the silver scholarship cup by ihe local American Legion post for ‘ing the outstanding student of the 1931 class graduated from the Aneta high school, Valley City—Bids have been called for by the city council for @ proposed extension of water mains in the southeastern part of CA a Contracts will be let july 6, Linton—Eleven aliens were granted. full citizenship here following an ex- amination by Judge W. Hut 5 LaMoure, and L. L. Welch, repre- senting the government, of applicants who applied for the final citizenship Papers. McClusky—aAs the result of federal aid appropriations, the state highway department is un- dertaking the greatest program of road construction and improve- ment since its organization, A. D. McKinnon, project engineer for the department, said in an address here, ‘ Selfridge—Sioux county school of- ficers gathered here for their annual meeting. Superintendent of Schools HO. Pippin, Dickinson, was the chief speaker. Fessenden—A four-day program with many of the features of the larger state fairs will be staged here July 7-10, when the Wells county fair holds its annual ex- position, E. W. Vancura, secre- tary, announced. Minot—The House of David Base- ball club of Benton Harbon, Mich., will play at the northwest fair grounds, Minot, June 19 at 9:30 p, m, The House of David team will bring Portable flood lights. Engineers have uncovered five new seams of coal near Gadsden, Ala., which they say contain fuel in paying quantities. eye on the ball lest he get a ball in the eye. * kK One good feature about Einstein's new book, “Systematic Research of the Compatible Field Equation Con- sistent with Riemann’s Theory of Distant Parallels,” is that it is un- likely to be made into a movie ‘scenario, * *e * A Washington preacher talked for 12 hours, illustrating the malicious influence of close proximity to Con- CSS, (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) i Sey ne 2 Quotations | —_—_—____—_.._____-« Many & devoted father is nothing more than a banknote to his sons and Spuenient Cougs, W. Wickersham, * * In politics there are three kinds of Speakers—a statesman, an orator and a windhan-—Gaores Bernard Shaw. * Preparation for war is a step to- ward war.—Rev. James MacLeod. * x * It is not always easy to say when yes- terday left off, when today aad nor yet when the two will merge into our tomorrows.—Henry Ford. * ee Wars have never been made by sol- diers in this country; they have been stopped by them.—Major General Smedley D. Butler. Mountrail Once Was Part of Ward County Editor's Note: The following is one of a series of articles dedling with the history of North Dakota counties. (By The Associated Press) Mountrail—-The county was formeit out of a part of Ward county in 1908 by a vote of the people. At that time Ward county comprised the present counties of Ward, Burke, Renville and Mountrail. The soil is of a rich black alluvial nature, and is prolific in Yielding wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax and other cereals and vegetables, The county les within the Missouri river eepmret. 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