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

i The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in . Advance Daily by carrier, per year. ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 Weekly by mail in state, thr Dakota, per year .. Weekly by mail in Ca: {the good will of upon to keep the organization on the right track. A certain number of war veterans have done little else since the war except clamor for special consideration based on war service. But the rank and file, while they have insisted that the government, take proper care of the wounded, the widows and the orphans, have not forgotten that, as citizens, their prin- cipal civic duty still is to their gov- ernment and that patriotism may best be judged by what one does, rather than by what he says. General Harbord’s caution and the character of the men within the Le- gion itself are evidence that the vet~ erans will be slow to impose upon the government which it is pledged to protect. To be perfectly truthful it always has been, the last bonus having been given to war veterans at the insist- ence of politicians seeking their fav- or rather than on demand of the year Member of Audit Bureau o! 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 news- paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other veterans themselves. The latter merely took what was offered to them. Fighting Forest Fires Anyone who thinks he might en- fighting as a first class sample. A young man heading eastward from “the front” recently stopped in matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Fe Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON i A Grand Document It takes time to give man a true perspective of men and events and the same thing may be said for docu- ments, hence it is all the more not- able that the Constitution of these United States stands out more grandly today than it did nearly a century and a half ago when it was written. Today, it has the halo which age places around it. It carries with it the admiration of e nation which it has helped to bring to greatness. One of the greatest political docu- ments of all time, it still is a vital force in the affairs of America and the world, keeping the nation into whose custody it was given on the path of sound-thinking and public righteousness. Since this is Constitution day, a great many things will be said about this historic instrument by speakers throughout the country. Its halo ‘will be enhanced. Its history will be glorified. The sonorous tones of ora- tors speaking fine words will almost make it sacred. If they do, and there has been too much of that kind of thing recently, the nation will suffer, because few things become sacred until after they are dead. And if the Constitu- tion of these United States ever is permitted to die, the end of our gov- ernment and our institutions is not far off. It would be much better if the’ pedple of Americs were to regard the Constitution as the vital, living thing it is; af they were to pay it the re- spect which its forcefulness deserves and observe its teachings, both in letter and spirit. ‘The Constitution is the measured voice of the fathers, it is true. It speaks to us through the years, glv- ing us the wisdom and the advice of the men who founded our govern- ment. But it is more than that. It is a voice coming loud and clear through the welter of petty detail in which all of us have become in- ‘almost negligible. Mandan long enough to tell a Tri- bune reporter that he longed for the peace and quiet of his native Chi- cago. The timber wars were @ little too strenuous for him. Another thing which makes fight- ing forest fires a good deal like mod- ern warfare is the method used for combatting them. As described by the department of the interior, the system is to establish lookout towers in areas which likely are to be strick- en and at strategic points. Men in these towers can locate a fire miles away with absolute accuracy. It is done by a system of triangulation, checked by telephone between two or more powers. In many ways it is) similar to directing the fire of an ar- tillery unit in battle. Once it is located, all that is neces- sary is to put out the fire. The meth- ods used in this part of the job are relatively simple but require a lot of hard work and are fraught with no little danger. The casualty list, too, reminds one of warfare. More than a score of persons have died in the forest fires im the United States this year and hundreds, perhaps thousands, have been made homeless. Another similarity between fight- ing forest fires and fightirig wars is that most forest fires, like most wars, are preventable by the exercise of careful intelligence. Fire Loss Still High During the first half of 1931 the total estimated fire loss was $242,- 568,267 as compared with $242,299,- 11 for the same period last year. ‘The increase is so sntall as to be But 1930 was a year of high losses, and we are con- tinuing to hold the total to an ex- cessive figure. Carelessness and thoughtlessness, coupled with arson, are still combatting the fine work of those organizations, public and pri- vate, which ate laboring to instruct, the people in the fundamentals of fire prevention. ‘We have not yet learned, as a peo- ple, that it is better to prevent a fire than to extinguish one. We may have the best fire departmert in the world—but every fire, no matter how’ slight, results in some waste. We may point out that there are few great conflagrations any more—bu! & few comparatively small fires can volved. It speaks of principles, not, expediencies. It has authority in a day when few really know what au- thority is. Whether we realize it or not, it offers to Americans who will recall its history and the history of the men who wrote it, a way out of a good many of our present difficul- ties. Timely Warning While the “Boys in Blue,” who de- fended the union from 1861 to 1865, meet in reunion at Des Moines, Iowa, the American Legion holds a confer- ence at Washington to consider ways of alleviating the unemployment sit- uation and restore economic balance to the country. While the old men renewed ac- quaintances and pondered by-gone days, their successors were tackling a vital modern problem which the Le- gion’s national commander character- ized as a national emergency similar in scope and importance to that of the war itself. General James G. Harbord, one of the leaders of the A. E. F., attended the Legionnaires to give mere lip-ser- vice to their country in these times of peace. He was quite blunt in calling to their attention that the Legion could not enlist in the fight for. economic stability one week at Washington and clamor loudly for an edditional bon- us in convention at Detroit the its He clear that efforts cause @ waste of millions, not only in property damage, but in loss of business, employment and higher taxes for other property. If the last six months of 1931 are Uke the first six, we will again ap- proach the $500,000,000 mark in de- struction by fire. The fire records of past years are a series of black marks against our much vaunted American efficiency. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the tht by other editors. trend of thou: They are published without regard. to whether they agsee or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Sales Tax (Duluth Herald) Senator Reed of Pennsylvania pro- Poses that congress impose a general sales tax on the country as a means of raising revenue without increas- ing income taxes. Congress could indeed raise a vast amount of money that way. Every- body would help contribute to the fund, and the beauty of it from the viewpoint of those who levy taxes is that most people wouldn't realize that they were paying it. * If the ideal tax is the tax that raises the most money with the least Joy getting into a war might try fire wrote an account of the fighting and bombardment of Lens in which Ca- nadian and English troops faced the enemy. without roofs and with broken walls leaning agains’ brickwork and timber. sent out @ wireless message that the English gunners were destroying pier, then the sales tax is the ideal But that doesn't describe an ideal tax at all. In fact, a tax hidden from the taxpayers may be the most vicious form of taxation imaginable. Honest taxation is open and above- board where everybody who pays it knows what he is paying, and how. A sales tax would’ not only be an enormous nuisance to every mer- chant, but in a very large measure it would be the very reverse of fair taxation, for it would not be a tax: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1937 ™~- — — | The Spirit of ’31! Get in Step! | ~~ = S oes FIGHTING AT LENS « On Sept. 17, 1917, Sir Philip Gibbs “Lens is a town of battered houses rubbish heaps of The enemy BEGIN HERE TODAY Pretty NORMA KENT, 20-year id secretary. {1 A Mee, re Flee MARK TRAVERS, son of F- 3. TRAVERS, millionaire rea dealer, after vhe father has sworn t Mark off wit ata wot ken seateahle that he'w Tonalte's son. mind ae Py eg pe sd THMETINE SAUNDERS, with whe pha an rt ari N im brea! with A little later Natalie eee to cone NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPDER XXII ‘ORMA poured the steaming, fragrant coffee into a yellow cup, She held it across the break- . fast table toward Mark. “You'll feel better after you've eaten some thing.” she said brightly. Norma's tone was a little too cheerful; she was so obviously trying to be en- couraging. Without reply Mark took the cup and put it down, He was coatless. Ho had shaved and brushed his hair. He wore a fresh shirt but no necktie, and his collar was open. Mark frowned at his plate—the perfect picture of a young man who has undertaken to prove sleep an unnecessary evil. “Cream?” Norma offered the She was still determinedly “Don’t want any!” That was definite enough. Tho three words implied utter disgust with the breakfast, the clear bright morning, the world in general, even Norma. “Good Lord, Norma!” The ex- clamation was sudden and violent. “Do I have to face a soft-bolled egg every morning of my life? Is there some kind of law or something that it @ guy doesn’t eat seven soft- boiled eggs a week—!" “But I thought you ttked them! I—oh, I'm sorry! The otber day when we had sausages you said you'd rather have eggs. Why didn’t you tell me you were: tired of them?” “Anybody’d -be tired of- them if they never saw anything else!” “You don’t have to eat it. There's onset can fiz that——" lever mind! As i as it's here I'll eat it. Don't ry anything else! Just because a person likes something once in a whilé doesn’t mean they want the seme thing French property by bombarding the city, and then made a deep belt of destruction by blowing up long blocks of streets. 5 “After that the British guns com- pleted the ruin, for there was a Ger- man garrison in every house, and in this kind of warfare there must be no tenderness of sentiment about bricks and mortar if the enemy is between the walls. the only cover for the Germans and| Eustace their only chance of safety is below the ground in tunnels and cellars. So now in Lens “The Canadians have filled the city with gas that kills and soaks down heavily into the dugouts and stifles the men in their sleep before they have time to stretch out their. hands for masks.” every day, yon know.” Mark’s tone| was easier. He was trying to ex- cuse himself for the outburst. “You You can cook all right, Norma, only you ought to think more about variety. Couldn't we have grape fruit occasionally instead of or- anges? And cantaloupe. That's better yet.” \ “It's out of season. There may be some place in town where I could get cantaloupe but it would be terribly expensive.” “Oh, I cee! One of those delica- cies that’s not for the undeserving poor. Lot of nerve a dub like me has, speaking of cantaloupes in October—a dub that can’t even earn an honest living! That's what you're thinking about me, isn’t it? ‘Why don’t*you say it? Well—why don’t you say itr eee HE had thrown down the napkin, sprung to his feet. “What makes you talk that way?” Injured appeal in the girl's voice. She went to him. “Darling, you know I can't bear to have you say those things! They're not true!” “Oh, they’re true all right.” Mark stood, handsome and glowering, de- fying her sympathy. “Everybody ‘knows I’m no good. What's the use of pretending you don’t know it toot” “But they don’t know it! They don’t know it because it isn’t so! I won't have you abusing yourself. Darling, you're going to get a job. Why, maybe this very day—” “Doh’t go on with that one! I know the whole speech. Maybe this very minute opportunity is lurking around the corner! Or sitting on the doorstep. That's where oppor- tunity sits, isn’t it? All I have to do is put.on my hat and coat and go grab it! Sure! Only I won't do it, I'm a failure. A no-good, The kind of fellow who'd rather stay out nights playing cards and neg- lecting his wife. Well, madam, to pay for last night's little indulgence T have in my vest pocket $40. It wasn't there at dinner time last night. It’s there now. Forty dol- lars! We can eat on that a long while if we don’t waste it on canta- loupes and artichokes and cavi- are—" : Bitter, bitter words one after the other. Bitterness and discourage ment and reckless defiance. It had been three weeks since Mark and Norma had returned to Marlboro. During that time the girl had often seen Mark discouraged but never so bitterly defiant, - There had been half a dozen nights like the previous one when he had not returned to the apart ment until near dawn. There had been times when he had asked her for car fare from the household money. Norma turned to the tiny gas stove. “Your coffee’s cold,” she said steadily. “Wait a minute and I'll have some more boiling.” Five minutes later Mark was drinking the piping hot beverage. The outburst had ended. He was subdued and quiet now. Across the table Norma began hesitatingly, “I've been thinking, Mark, maybe—I mean just while| do. things are the way they are—I've seen some ads in the paper and I have so much time ‘Would Quotations S Civilized society today is composed not of individuals exercising their ‘own minds upon the problems which face them and determining for them- selves their responsibilities, but associations whose busindis it is do the thinking for them.—Lord Percy. ‘+ # ‘The more we restrict immigration the greater the pressure to enter this illegally.—Herry §E. Hull, immigra- country commissioner general tion. of to see if I could find a -job—you know, just something until you're working?” He let her finish. “That makes tt perfect,” Mark said slowly. “That's the final touch. Well, Norma, you can look for a job any day so far as I’m concerned. But the day you find one and begin working I walk through that door and don’t come back, I may be a hell of a good-for-nothing but I'm not quite low enough to live ‘off my wife's wages. Not yet—!” He halted a moment before the mirror, adjusting his tie. Mark picked up hat and coat and left the apartment. a oe 'O ence more Norma lunched with Chris Saunders. Toward Chris the younger girl turned as toward the last remaining stronghold -of courage and comfort. They met in a crowded cafeteria but the very bustle and ham of the eating place provided privacy. In the drone of hundreds of other voices thelr confidences were se- cure, “I—I don’t know what to do, Chris!" Norma's voice rose tremu- lously with the last words. “We're not getting anywhere and—oh, I'm so afraid something's going to hap- pen! I don't quite know what, When Mark talks the way he did this morning—he doesn’t mean it, of course, but not being able to find & job is getting on his nerves. May- be it’s getting on mine, too, I try not to let it. Chris, I hate to talk to you like this but what can I dot. Chris Saunders selected a tender section of celery. “He's right, you know—" she sald thoughtfully, “at least about your getting a job. A man with a grain of gumption isn’t going to let his wife bring home a pay check while he’s doing nothing.” 3 “But I didn’t mean it that way—!" “Of course you didn’t, lamb, It isn't how we mean things; it's the way other people take them that’s important, Anyhow I think Mark's right. kind of job has he been looking for?” “Oh, anything! I've heard him say @ dosen times he's willing to do anything and he means it. Mark would de anything at all so long as it paid enough for our living. That's what worries me. You see the money we borrowed 1s almost gone.” “Your credit’s good with me, kid.” “Do you think Mark would let me borrow from you? Of course not!” +e & ‘You know I don’t care for money Pee Henry L. . +e & E. M. L. Gould. @ convénient cuff: the ladies to worry about. Otto Kahn appeared at the open- ing of the new Earl Carroll theater. «. » Which makes the new season + Unless Banker Kahn's white hair and mustache are observ- able no theatrical event is “strictly kosher,” as they say hereabout. . Sew Will Hays and Roy Howard there, too. . . . More signs of ap- proaching winter: Barney Gallant, tht clubber to more intelligent » including writers, is back from . Although he trades off Broadwayites, he seldom travels Europe as soon as spring threatens... . Although Barney North Africa... uptown, heading for hhas become one of the bet- own New York night charac- he was a@ police reporter in St. e. once upon a time. ‘old cuff tells me it's about|°UPreme court benches, prime min- I said something about Jimmy » + » « He's a lad from Broad- who made good in the films. His name hangs in the big and his latest ” is breaking box- He was a product ‘| of New York that | ading character in @| ‘Bad Girl”: that is, upper Broad- way around the Bronx-Harlem line. . Got started toward a business career by selling lunch wagons... . Became a stock actor and “hammed” around to now! of to eee got a phone call from Ran- one doesn’t like New York. » The Orient got under his skin. He had the United Press bureau in Shanghai, and was constantly urg- ing to “get back home.” ... His folks hadn’t seen the baby, nor the wife he married out there. . . . Well, the wire service finally let him come PAETIRCA IAI: LAURA LOU ~BROOKMAN Jaec“MAD MARRIAGE’, he could just get a chance!” While she was still speaking the gther girl’s face had lighted. “Listen!” Chris exclaimed dramati- cally, “I've got an idea! Do you suppose Mark could sell advertis- ing?” - “Of course he could!” “Well, I just remembered some- thing. Bud Jamieson’s, quitting Seturday and Brad hasn't hired anyone to take his place. Brad doesn't ordinarily take inexperi- enced salesmen but he likes Mark!, Tl tell you what you do—” eee ‘ASUALLY that evening Norma spoke of meeting Chris. She added in an off-hand way, “Chris said Mr. Hart's been wanting to see you. Asked if you could stop in his office tomorrow morning.” “What's he want to see me about?” Dark fringed lashes fluttered faintly. Then the better part of valor won a victory. “I don't know,” the girl said. “She told me Mr, Hart's always in about 11 o'clock. Chris is looking awfully well, Mark. I don’t believe she's putting in as much overtime as she did.” Shortly before noon next day Norma was called to the telephone. A 4ubilant-voteed Mark almost shouted the glad tidings: “Brad Hart's got a job for me! Wants me to start right away. Do you hear that, Baby? I said Brad Hart wants me to work for hin— selling advertising. Sure I can do it! Why, of course. Everybody knows advertising’s a good thing! except what I can get for it—Major Man’s right to possess should rest. upon his ability to use the possession unselfishly.—Rev. ‘New York, Sept. 17.—Notes from /|one and one: ‘A memorandum| !n the United States who have reach- reminds me that since the new Em- press Eugenie hat styles have @9-/ vate. This means that 28 per cent peared the hair net business, which|or more than one out of every four was slipping, has picked up 30 per| Fe dependent. cent. . . . Which is something for ti — iN Daily Health Service : Retirement Frequently Speeds Death of Average Successful Person ‘Active Man Gives Too Much Attention to Trifling Ills If Not Occupied By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Before giving advice to the aged as~to the conduct of their lives it timated by Dublin, statistician of a famous life insurance company, that million persons ed the age of 65 are in want and are supported by charity, public and pri- It has long been known that re- ‘rement not infrequently has has- tened the death of the aged. A suc- eessful business man, when relieved of the usual life and caused to re- sort to idle luxury, tends to degen- erate rapidly. Every trifling ailment | choose begins to receive his undivided’ at- tention. The mental attitude is im- portant. Sir Humphrey Rolleston says that “a well-occupled mind, a happy disposition that thinketh no evil, naturally smiles instead of frown- ing on a stranger or a new idea, free from anger, hatred or jealousy, the vice that gives.no pleasure to any one, and an attitude of charity in its original and best sense to all, tend to prolong life and make it a happy, healthy prelude to crossing the bar.” Thus one may point out that tigni- taries of the church, chief justices on @ig your grave with you teeth”; “Man does not die, he kill himself,” and best of all the double edged statement. of the Hoosia farmer: “Pigs would live a lot longe if they didn’t make hogs of selves.” An investigation madé one life insurance company revealet that 13 per cent of some thousand of policyholders beyond the age a 40 were more than 20 per cent oven weight. Persons at this age hav taking thi of cautions and by having aminations at cel to detect the presence of the of middle life that come on ously. Avoid worry since it is things, a certain amount of ment and physical exercise, some time the open air, and a reasonabl amount of heppiness—these tute the prescription for a long and a useful one. back... . And then he couldn’t get back to Shanghai fast enough to suit him. All the Broadway paragraphers have been saying yes-or-no to ru- mors concerning the match between Queenie Smith, music show star, and Robert Garland, World - Telegram drama critic. ... Just to get the rec- otd straight, they were married last May, and have been denying it for reasons best known to themselves. newspaper. No one dare dispute of what he said in his article. Ni let us stop and study what he when he says “The farm marke’ act was drawn up by the industrial ists, contrary to the agriculturis' and the former party is the maj party, where the latter is the party.” Now, then, I take it fof granted that the only way we farmé ers can cure that is to make the ag« riculturalist the major party. Wi Et One cabaret has a number titled, “Rhapsody in Blonds.” ... And slightly cracked record. + # # Groucho Marx, back from Holly- Marx brothers, gives away gum be- tween acts at Broadway first nights and thus amuses the blase natives. And just to show you how big this town is getting, a “block party” of the old-fashioned variety was held in 65th street the other night... . The steamship com} Picked up 80 much quick ness with their entertainment - cruises summer months that they hope to keep it up during the winter months. . . They'll run to the West Indies instead of Halifax, however, to give the tired Manhattans some tropical . .. . When you figure that liners have been carrying 800 passengers and more on each trip, when Euro- pean business was falling off, you'll agree that it was a smart business notion. George White, the producer, shows up without a shave when he has a revue in rehearsal. i And cider is getting to be a most popular drink around New York... . Of which, more later. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) People’s Forum returned to -the rs MUST be signed. If you wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We wili re- reserve spect ‘such requests, We gho right to delete such parts of otters ae may be necessary to this conform policy. SEES SOMETHING WRONG Baldwin, N. D., Aug. 27, 1931. Editor, Tribune: In your dally issue’ of the 17th inst is an article in the People's Forum, written by James M. Witherow of Moorhead, Minn. It reads in part: “The farm marketing act, of which the farm board is the chief adminis- trative agency, unfortunately was drawn by the industrialist over g talking , about or he could not make a state- ment like written above in a public It'll be a snap! Hart's taking me around to meet some of his cus- tomers, this afternoon. I'll tell you all about it when I get home. See you later, Baby. "Bye!" ‘They celebrated by going to the neighborhood motion picture house that evening and holding hands throughout a talking drama which ‘was neither very funny nor very moving emotionally. To Norma the picture glowed with a hase of ro- mantic beauty that was to make it memorable. For a week thereafter Mark ‘Travers arose to the clangor of the new alarm clock, downed his break- fast and sprinted for the 8:15 car. Each evening he real be tween 5:30 and 6, After dinner he read a volume Norma had un-- earthed in the public brary. “Psy- chology in Selling Advertising” was the title of the book. Norma got out the paper note “Well, about this job. What does.) book containing her much-thumbed Swiftly Norma took the defense. budget. Forty-five dollars a week Gay—she waited impatiently for his arrival, She waited until tremors coursed her spine “But .{t wasn't Mark’s fault! That| vented reasons to believe the ex- father wanted him was what his to|cuses, She waited and waited— And bdesides it’s different now.’ and at 4:30 there were steps on the Mark really wants to work. He/ stairs, wants to work hard and he's been| “Is that you, Mark?” Norma through college and he's so clever, | cried, running into the hall, Yarmers must get into politics, éleci men who will fight against speciai four years before he got back| speakeasy phonograph plays a/|privilege and vote for equal rights Broadway. ... And look at him}“Rhapsody in Booze,” which uses a|to all. There is something wrong somewhere. Let actual farmers gel into congress and let us-see if they will work against themselves. The +. + It seems that every-] wood adventures with the other three| industrialists don’t do it. Yours truly, JULIUS MEYER. A wood block, three mches on each sade, is pated red. If you cut this block ‘nto one-inch cubes, how many cubes would there’ be? Of these one-inch cubes, how many would be red on three sides, how many on two sides, how many on one side and how many would have no red side at all Some people fly because they go up in thelr own estimation. ” e yore ~ ~ st ? A, * s ath! 4 |