The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1931, Page 4

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Logan Payne Co. OHTCAGO NEW YORK BOSTON — OUR ISOLATION POLICY Those who like to think that the Atlantic ocean still isolates America from Europe as effectively as it did in the days of sailing vessels must be finding it hard to understand the high significance of President Hoov- er’s proposal for a year's moratorium on war debts and reparations. ‘As & matter of fact, this event—which probably will be what 1931 is remembered for in the history books of the next generation—ought to dispel the last shreds of belief in our “splendid isolation.” The plain truth of the matter is that the future of Europe rests largely on what America does. When an American president, by a simple statement to the press, can check-the prob- ability of revolution in Gefmany and inspire all of Europe with a new hope, it is evident that American isolation is ended. Just where has this isolation of ours goné, anyway? Most historians say that it really ended with the war with Spain. By seizing the Philippines and set-| ting Cuba free, the United States announced itself as a world power. Less than two decades Jater the country found itself engaged in a European war, sending troops 3000 miles overseas, maintaining a fleet in the North Sea, sending smaller squadrons to the Mediterranean | and dispatching an army to Siberia, The transition had come rapidly. Yet nobody willed it. It.came inevitably. The in- dustrial revolution, which made every nation at least partly dependent on every other, was largely responsi- ble. So, too, were the new methods of travel and com- munication, which divided all old distances by ¢en and made messages move with the speed of thought. Dur- ing the last half century the world became a hundred times more complex than it had been before; and it also shrank to a fraction of its former size. The policy of isolation, as a result, simply ceased to have) any meaning—although we have not yet entirely real- ized it. Today Americans are reading again about German reparations, war debts, the internal political currents of distant nations; and while we may find it unpleasant to be obliged to understand these things, we cannot escape the job. We have got to4nake ourselves realize that we are not isolated any longer; that the entire world is looking to us for leadership; and that our own welfare gnd the welfare of Europe are inextricably inter-related. COMMODITY PRICES = One of the things which has helped to sustain the Tecently improved prices of stocks in Wall Street is the stiffening of commodity prices. Ever since 1930 the price trend of most articles has been downward. By almost imperceptible degrees, in some cases, the staple materials of trade have sought new low levels. The trade indices show that the.common articles of commerce are now at the lowest marks since before the war and some are below pre-war prices. For several months, now, there have been fndica- tions that prices had just about reached the bottom. In a few cases recently, there have been advances. The review of R. G. Dun and company for the week ending} June 20 listed 35 price advances and 15 declines, the first marked reversal of the trend in almost two years. For the same week in 1930 there were 20 price advances and 49 reductions. The Wall Street view is that commodity prices will play a big part in business improvement. As soon as the ordinary staples are held at higher prices in the principal markets, according to this idea, there will be a rush to buy before the price goes still higher. Until now, with prices sinking, every merchant or other purchaser has been buying as little 2s possible. Inventories are at an unusually low ebb. But when the buying rush starts the stimulated de- mand will provide more employment; purchasing power will increase; prices will go still higher and the first thing the country will-know it will be headed toward another boom. It is certain that this business phenomenon his oc- curred in the past and, despite all the schemes to guard business from both booms and depressions which ws have heard in recent months, it probably will oc- cur again. SAVINGS DEPOSITS GO UP One of the most encouraging signs in the rather discouraging economic situation today is the fact that savings bank deposits are rising again. A bulletin from the Alexander Hamilton Institute| points out that the years of prosperity did not do these deposits as much good as might have been expected. From 1920 to 1925, the deposits made an average gain of 8 per cent a year. During the three following years. the gain dropped to 4 per cent and in 1929, with pros- perity at its peak, there was actually a loss. Commenting on the prevalence of the advice from all quarters to spend money more freely, the institute's bulletin remarks: “As a matter of fact, one of the contributing factors t6 the current depression is that in the years preceding le spent too much and saved too little. Part of the slow Process of recuperation must be « building up savings.’ i). HELPS YOUNG FOLKS mM Insurance » Which ate very much inter- eeted in keeping their policyholders alive as long as }g9| 800d turn by planting grain or other foods for the fore insulin was: discovered \but from 64 upward the increass is rapid. Another dact disclosed’ by the sta- tisticians is that the increased death rate is more pro- nounced among women than among men in the higher age brackets, NOW IS THE TIME According to the American Game Association now is the time for the thoughtful hunter to do himself a field birds to eat next winter. Varieties recommended are field corn, sorghum and kaffir corn, the idea being that the stalks must be stiff and hold the gtain above the snow in winter. Some rape is recommended, since this’: plant reMains green throughout a good part of the winter in most climates and serves. as “salad” for the birds. Places recommended for plantings are near natural cover for the birds, since they will not then have to tisk being attacked by predators to reach it, The idea seems sensible. ALMOST AS SAFE? According to a pamphlet, “Accident Facts,” pub-, lished by the National Safety Council, 6 per cent of all| the deaths which occur each year are the results of accidents, Of this 6 per cent, in number about 96,000, one-fourth occur in working places, one-fourth happen in the home, one-fourth are the result of automobile atcidents and the other one-fourth ate due to miscellaneous causes, ~ These facts might tend to show that, despite all of the propaganda to reduce automobile deaths, we are al- most as safe on the road as at home. This might be true, of cotirse, were it not for the greater periods of | time spent around one’s own fireside. | SPELLING BEES One of the most fashionable diversions on trans- atlantic liners, we are told, is the holding of spelling bees. The passengers line up in rows with one person giv- ing out the words and there is an old-fashioned spell- down. The new fad has its points and many a business- man will regret that he is too poor to send his stenog- raphe on & trip abroad. i Editorial Comment Eaitortale printed below show the trend of thought by other éditors. They are published Without regard to whethér they agree or disagree with The Trib- une's policies. THE DALLAS “HANGING” (Washington Star) From Dallas, Tex., the other day came a blood-curd- ling story. A preacher had been found bound and hanging from the chandelier of a church above the pul- pit where he had preached. He was living, but in a sorry state. When taken down he told a tale of hor- ror. He was accosted near the church by a band of men who took him into the building, stripped him of his ¢elothing and tied him up, intending to kill him, but they relented sufficienty to leave him partly suspended in the condition in which he was found after some hours. Various speculations as to the cause of this outrage resulted from the disclosure. It was suggested that the murderous attack had been due to a rancorous quar- rel in the congregation over the length and quality of the preacher’s sermons. The suspicion was also voiced that the clerical victim had been..guitty of unclerical conduct. Now the mystery is solved. The partially suspended minister has publicly avowed that his tale of kidnaping and assault and hanging was a fake. He had in fact, he confesses, undertaken to commit suicide, but after he got the rope fastened. and his hands bound he ex- perienced-a-change of heart’ and decided to cling to life. Then he could not release himself, and when found he gave forth the cock-and-bull story of attack. Which still leaves ground for speculation, although it clears the matter somewhat. ONCE MORE, HOOVER BRINGS HOPE (Duluth Herald) It may very easily be discovéred, soon, that: President Hoover’s very wise and exceedingly timely step in pro- posing a moratorium on war debts was the very tonic needed to stimulate the palsied circulation of world commerce. Julius Curtius, German foreign minister, in express- ing Germany’s joy over the sudden appearance of this helping hand, put his finger on the seat of the trouble with the world when he said: “What I admire par- ticularly is the president’s realization that what is needed now moresthan anything else is restoration of} confidence. I don’t care what people say about lower prices and such-like economi¢ factors—at the bottom of it all is lack of confidence.” That is always so toward the end of a period of de- pression, if not at its beginning and all through it. In this country there is the machinery for prosperity, there is the money and ‘plenty of it, there are needs and desires to be served by industry—but all have been paralyzed by fear of the future. The greatest menace to the future was that Ger- many, heavily burdened by war debt and hard times and with Communists and Hitlerites playing upon the irri- tation of a discontented population, would sink into an abyss of turmoil, or perhaps be swallowed up by a dis- astrous revolution. Mr. Hoover's plan, which has the approval of con- gressional leaders of both parties and of the public generally, goes straight to the heart of that difficulty and, if France will only for once quit being skittishly rescue the world out of its doldrums and set it on the highway to a larger property A light has suddenly flashed out of darkness, and the future looks brighter than it has for many months. JUDICIAL ABSURDITIES (Washington Star) American judicial: procedure is replete with absurdi- ties, growing out of the retention of ancient forms of law and rules of practice. Sometimes these absurdities cause-defeat of justice. Now-and again they result. in mistrials when the guilt of those standing, before the court under accusation is patent. A case in point is that of the trial of four officers of the Bank of the United States in New York, accused of felonies in the misa eae of funds. After twelve weeks of testimony tak tg and arguments and instrue- tions fhe jury retired Friday afternoon. .An hour or 80 later they came out with a request. - They wanted the indictments and a list of the defense exhibits. The tempermental and agree, will solve it and over night]: 4 My N AY) AH, lt Fe MLS Te judge, with “considerable asperity,” according to one feport, denied their plea. “Three times I have inter- preted the indictment to you,” he said sternly; “it is not in evidence, and you are not entitled to have it. I will read it to you, though. It is phrased in legal terms, and you have to take my interpretation of it.” Under a strict interpretation of the law of evidence the indictment, the very basis of the procedure, the very charge itself, was not available to the jury. It had been read in their hearing, it had been analyzed by counsel and finally by the judge, but it was not “be- fore the jury” in the sense of a statement that the jur- ors could take under direct examination. They could have other items, but they-could not have the founda- tion document of the case. _ As the court declared, the “indictment was phrased in legal terms.” That, perhaps, was intended to con- vey to the jurors the thought that even if they had the paper in their hands they could not tnderstand it. They probably could not have read it with any comprehensive understanding. For the indictment, as are all indict- ments presented to court in this country, was a tie maze of cifcumlocutions and titions and indirect references and confusingly explicit descriptions. Its reds of words could have been reduced with by the fact that insulin, discov- ettective when administered to young per- Py increasing. Between 45 and 56 matty hund: safety to a quarter of thé number and its clarity in- eréased infinitely. But it was in accord with the doc- trine of obscurity that has prevailed in the American courts since theit establishment, brought over to them from the British court ire. The British judiciary has in recént years. adopted the simpler form of for- mal accusation, but’ the American courts hold to. the archaic of indictment. ; , If the indictment is not in evidence-it shouldbe. If is not plait enough in tts meaning to ‘be-understood by the 1a; who constitute a ay. it should be. The the evidential status Ne indictment is not’ of grave importance. The matter of the clarity of tire accusation is of the utmost importance, See mmm La TOAD LTE A RRA RAR 1 AER 7 aR 11M cSt pS ETN TODAY IS THE a RUSSIAN CHURCH REPORT IveRS | fital, live: You a in a an tow Then th offer to piay ot Stream 7! been working In ment store ond hay Gene to dine sLY CRONIN, neighbor of whom Cans disnp> Molly's men Soon a note arrives from bexzing her’ mothe GME A once to n dowen-town dresn, Frantic, Cann hastens the SUANE MeDERMID, young polices man In charge, tells her that the ner with Proves, friends, Liane, and two of Felenser her, Liane encounters a ha atranger who enils her and F en TA; and graceful. She had was a exquisite sports clothes, & gypsy scarf about her age she felt singularly ness of Biarritz and Havre de Grace and She told Liane that she onés because the of didn’t know what she said so, Muriel explained tole: & Smoothy was a darth, cute thing or what hav dida't—seem to despise her abysmal ignorance, Ughten her, “Don’t you think @ Murtlel drawled. Liane looked.shocked. St, Anne's would have Muriel Ladd. tered, about it.” 1 think we're awfully. provincial over here.” She blew a cloud Jovi Hap) wit ‘me I'll ask mother.” one,” she trilled, mother’ stuf amuses m Really “tt does. { thiik NEGIN HERB TODAY LIANE BARRETT, 18 and be ¢ramp. th her ong Intan ich wealthy MRS. news. The girl Rack nt the theater ane leave for Willow MINTER, Inzenue, ane to CLIVE, n of fi NOW Go ON WITR THE STORY CHAPTER III McRreEL LADD was the girl who was to share Liane’s duties in the box office. Muriel was slender] Porcelain, delicate, insolent brows ‘and an intimidating drawl, Murtel Willow Stream Juntor Leaguer, bored with life and anz- fous to “express herself,” Sho wore she rode. Her fingernails long as a mandarin’s and si quantities of exotic scent, Liane was impressed. Beside this other girl who was her own Muriel spoke with equal careless- Milan and Gibraltar and Burlin- game and Hawali and Saratoga and Muriel had been everywhere, knew everybody and liked nothin Dutch boats better than Bnglish Dutch line were “smoothies.” Liane patronized her and tried to en- have affairs before she marries?” bled to think what the sisters at “I really don't know,” she tal “L badn’t tought much “Well, { do,”. Muriel ‘sata coldly. “I think {t accentuates her obarm. “Come'to dinner Saturday bight,” ‘she offered tasily, ste oot gem smoothy 1 want you to ses. He's 4| pein; Awtully old tor me, of course. ‘He's 38 But | like ‘em that wry. to be married but bis| manded a “dud and doesn’t matter. Come and watch my technique.” Liane said, “It you really went Martel laughed. “You're a quee? “All this ‘ask grad a report of Russian church re- forms. His message said in part: “In. the revolution that is taking place, the Russian church is making more rapid progress toward adjusting itself to the new conditions than th? state. It has practically been separ~ ated from state and. is now managing its-own affairs. ‘The process has been one of de- a depart. a ndsome by_name, a skin like and banded head when Te as used “May I take you you do. Isn't she on the stage? Isn't she broadminded? Seems so silly, to talk as if you were still in kindergarten.” eee [Ane defended herself. “My mo’ ‘3 frightfully particu- tar,” sho said. She couldn't help being scornful of Muriel’s opinions, Shoe allowed herself to be lofty on this familiar ground. “Hverybody who knows anything at all realizes that people in the profession are extremely circumspect in their pr! vate lives. You evidently believe all you read in the papers.” Be? looked slightly surprised. “Oh, come on. I didn't mean any- rently that/ thing, really.” she sald apologetl you? She| ‘lly. “I was just trying to see Liane for| hat you'd say. But do come! We Rather.she| 2¢e4 an extra girl. Mothe: Bar Harbor and I'm throwing this {party myselt.” Liane allowed herself to be moll! fled, She felt that she had won the upper hand with this superior girl' once at least. She was glad she had been so emphatic, “But, sweet, you've nothing de cent to wear” Cass demurred when Liane told her about the invitation. Cage was pleased though. You could see that. Willow Stream, after all, hide ta out to be a rather dull ‘or & youn! rl with no stupid and Fata fd feds ind position. i ne belonged neither of smoke. | fashionable crowd, aor tot ee! tives. She was one of the-in-be twecns and for « girl of her age in in-between is sometimes immature, Monaco, of Asheville. could bear rs on the meant and girl should She trem- thought of BUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1981 te at ee 4, | mocratization. Every priest has had to have his position confirmed by a vote from the people of his parish. Twelve bishops have been dismissed, including the bishop of Petrograd, and new bishops have been installed only after elections by congregations. Property of the More changes were churches has been transferred from |made in the Russian church duriag|the state and is to be administered On June 27, 1917, Charles R. Crane, the month of May than had been|by the congregations, the clergy and a member of the United States Com- | made in two centuries before. mission to Russia, cabled from Petro: “The physical bishops occupying themselves solely with theological affairs.” in2” Van Robard asked. arms upraised, as Elsie tossed the drifts of smoky stuff over her head. “There!” She stood transfigured, dimly mysterious and alluring in the half light, “You're really—quite—adorable,” Elsie drawled. “Give that little hell-cat from the upper crusts run for her. money.” “You don’t like Muriel, 60 you?” , Liane asked. “Not much!” said Elsie with some bitterness, “As soon as she saw Clive was making & play for me she put her oar in, She barged in and interrupted every time we had a minute to gether. Now she’s got bim. Ob, she’s @ vixen, that girl I'll get her yet.” case looked troubled. “Does she| again. seem quite—quite nice for you, dear?” ehe asked Liane, “After all, you know very little about her.” .“Oh, mother, I've got to have some fun!” begged Liane, “Let the kid go. She'll probably crab some of the little, snal Plans without meaning to,” EI urged, low-voiced. “Liane’s pretty enough for anything.” On Sunday aight, since there was to be no performance, Murfel sent the car around fot her guest. Liane, | lowed the with high beating heart, was handed down by an attentive foot man. The house looked infinitely imposing with its great verandas, its maroon-frocke@ maids moving attentively about, She left her in an upstairs room pinks and blues, & & very dificult matter indeed, “Nothing to wear to what? de fe, bounding tn, Told of the coming festivity, Elsie dec! “My black chiffon ts to be had on & moment's notice.” She went to her room and returned with the drese trailing over her arm. -“Sweet’ of tering group. She turned, Nfting these tnsctent eyebrows § quizzically “Port Rod sald, puttieg ta By Le MORRIS FISHBEIN (Editor, Journal Medical tion) Tt ts generally well known that American quackery is highly ai vanced so fat as concerns its tech- nical and complicated eharacter. We have more quacks ahd a ter va- riety ih the field Of tm than any other country in the world, but it should hot be (etait actin, unite any kind of a monopol jis mat- ter. In ® recent issue of Hygele, Dr. Otto Neustattér, Who is among the Teading health bpd if Germany, falls about ghosts, 5 baby ey and mitacle men who affitet the Ger- man people. ‘The German folklore of disease and its treatment is as comical as any of the superstitions that prevail in back- Ward -sections of the United States. ‘Thete ate people in Germany Who believe that afernia and jaundice can be cured by cooking sheep's lite into m; that the way for a mother to ve a child without much pain is to open all the doors, windows and boxes, to pull out all the drawers and to untle all the knots atoutd the house. They have their magical qires for epilepsy and scrofula. ey think that paralysis can be cured by putting the patient to sleep on the straw in @ stable where a donkey has slept Daily Health Service. Quacks Here and Abroad- ** ‘America Leads World th Charlatanry But Cult for Magical Cures Flourishes in ‘of the American) should not lie on its left side, besaiive rmany Some think that a new-born baby that will make: it left y also believe that @ person will be eick all through his life if somohe gets some of his hair end buries it in a cemetery. These are examples of sympathetic magic, based: abt on. the Ideas of similarity or symbolism. me dah Bee how a simple mind ja attive at the conclusion that the pains of childbirth can be relieved by uhtying @ lot of knots. No doubt, the idea of healing paralysis, by having the per- son lie on theStraw where & donkey had og ié seth Haytin oe Raralysis seems as in ie animal credited with being the most stupled of beasts. One's beliefs depend on the en- vironment in which he grows, the thoughts and beliefs of those about Aim, the amount of education, and the ability of the mind itself to rea~ son. The simplest type of reasoning is sympathetic reasoning, which makes people believe that a yellow flower, like @ dandelion, will cure jaundice; that @ red flower or ruby will help diseases of the blood; that heart-shaped flowers will cure dis- eases Of the heart, and that the way to get strength is to use the bonés or organs of strong animals. New York, June 27.—Reverberations from the recent wave of murder and lurid crime in New York have waken- ed this town’s officialdom to action @gainst the more sinister night re- sorts and dance halls. At the moment, they are talking about @ new commissionership in the Police department which would have immediate powers to act against a bronze curls, “I'll begin with you," Muriel said, indicating « tall man who lounged against an atrocious white marble mantel, “This is Van Robard, Liane, the well-kn hbeart-wrecker.” Liane looked into the deep-set eyes and met the mocking smile of the man who had called her by her name that night outside Vernon's office Her confusion was Jost in the. chatter and the’ clink of crystal as &@ man in livery went: from’ group to group, proffering goblets and napkins, sea green and smaller than a lady’s handkerchief, Liane accepted @ goblet and then put it down surreptitiously. No one saw the gesture and she was glad. The man called Van Robard seemed the very hub of the gayest crowd, Murtel aimed her deftest sallies at him. Liane felt Cinderella-wise, The gayety, @ little noisy, a little shrill, ebbed away from her. Why had she come? She didn't belong here She longed to slip away into the quiet of the summer night outside. Almost she suited the action to the thought. se A RED-HAIRED youth who looked like an infant Bacchus caught apd vicious breed of socalled night club. Strangets in Manhattan have been the most frequent ~ victinis of such tenderloin spawns, where the rules not only néver give a sucker @ break but generally leave the victim beateh in some dark doorway with his pock- ets inside-out. Visitors, however, are not the sole prey. Townfolk, out on 4 lark, fre- quently stumble upon eye-opening evidences of what goes on behind locked or barred doors in their twh town. New Yorkers who stumble in- to such traps have only themselves to blame, since the warning signals have beeh displayed time and again. So raw is the initiation of a vit- tim that, were it not for the beatings be funny and recall the old days of Uncle Josh in the big city, For the places now being dragged out of the dark into the light of day are of the old melodrama variety that we met in cheap novels and tent shows in past years. * RK Briefly, the most common proce- dure of such spots is this: They work in league with a type of taxicab driv- er who cruises about the mid-town section in search of fares. Usually the driver has a “gyp” cab; that is, @ cab charging the highest rates. But there are any number of other “steerers.” ‘The driver, of course, is aware that the average stranger is likely to be a little giddy; likely to want to go places and do things; likely to take a few drinks and want to keep going. Sometimes the fare asks the driver for a recommendation—and this is a truly fatal.procedure in six out of 10 gases and a long chance in nine out of 10. For you néver tan tell where you will wind up. ° ,On the other hand, the cabby may hint that he knows where there- is plenty of goings on; lots of music; pretty girls to dance with; and even a drink to be bought. At the very @uggestion, the. stranger would do well to stop the cab and get out, for the driver means no good to visit- ing firemen. But if the sucker goes along—and most of them do—the old, old game begins. He is deposited at a place the address of which he is not-likely ever to remember again. He is turned di- rectly from the cabby to a doorman who hustles him inside. There is, as was , some music and some girls, There is, on occasion, a drink to be bought—yes, even bathtub champagne for the girls. And per- haps the very worst straight liquor to be found in New York. If the her arm slyly as she made a sud- den, instinctive movement toward the French door. “Don't go,” he said slyly. She shrank from bis touch and from the ‘scent of liquor on him. “I wasn't going.” Liane Med, “Just wanted some air.” sucker has his own supply, there’s the setup. “Here's @ good number,” chortle the boy Bacchus, rumpling bis hair anew. He challenged the crowd with his discov. “Good number desires air. What d'you know about that?” Liane felt the hot color rising to the very roots of her hair, How she hated them all at that moment! Rich, good-looking, unmannerly crowd! Tho man galled Van Robard away from Muriel’s small court and came toward her. “Bky, beat it,” he said, in a tone £0 low none of the rest could hear. © “You're annoying the lady.” The red-haired youth mumbled incoherently and Grifted back to the others. “Don’t mind that idiot,” said the man with the dark eyes, speaking vety quietly. “I don’t—now.” She could smile outers, Be sents ca ity about it. ‘The man sald, “Hope we get some food soon, I played tennis for hours today and I’m hungry.” Liane smiled at Bim in sympathy. “May I take you in?” Van Robard asked. “There's never eny cere tony about these affairs of Murt- = room eas with # Van watch FF ehRes S#REs zen rye bal i i : rH ‘ ; i § E : [ i g happy, compared with some where men have been all but beaten to death, robbed and. carried out to be dumped in the most convenient gut- GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1991, NEA Service, Inc.) It is up to the war mothers to teach their children § and robberies, the whole thing would .