The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931 The Bismarck Tribune ' An Independent Newspaper i’ THE STATE'S OLDEST § < . NEWSPAPER, cant (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 i President and Publisher. | i Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year......$7.20| Daily by mall per year (in Bis- Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ........... Daily by mail outside of Ni Dakota ‘ Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years seeee Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year Weekly by mail in Canada, pei year . ++ 2.00] ‘Member of Audit Bureau o! Circulation 2.50 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. Ail rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives ‘ SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Edison. Will It was no surprise that announce- ment of the terms of the will under which Thomas A. Edison disposed of his property was followed quickly by the statement of one of his older sons that an effort would be made to break ‘the document. As with many another man of means and accomplishment, his chil- dren had very little todo with Edi- son’s acquisition of wealth. It came to him as the result of his own genius and the fertility of his own mind, so that, as he saw the sunset neering, he was free to do with it as he Pleased. Why he chose to give the vast bulk of a large estate to the two children of & second marriage, assigning com- paratively little to his four offspring by his first wife, is hard to under- stand. William Edison, preparing to bring suit, says the widow influenced the inventor to do so. The merits of the suit will be tried in a court of law, but the American public, even as it reverences the gen- ius of the man, will come to the con- clusion that, in his ordinary human relationships, he may not have been above’ the average at all. Time—the Whitewasher | When Professor Herbert A. Miller; remarked the other day that Sir’ Francis Drake was a pirate “who should have been. hanged” he was not! simply trying to make a startling! comment that would land on the front pages. He was testifying to something that is self-evident, if you! stop to think about it—the fact that the romance and glamour which clus- ter “about..certain historical person- ages-are usually put there chiefly by the passage of time. Nothing looks quite the same at. Close range as it does a century or two later. In the days of Elizabeth, for example, there were plenty of people who felt precisely as Dr. Miller fcels; the Spanish ambassador in London wore himself to. a frazzle trying to projéct that. viewpoint on to Eliza- beth herself, and a great number of Englishmen were ready to agree. But today Drake is something more than an English national hero. He 4s one of the great adventurers the race has produced, with a name that evokes dreams, and we may envy the men who sailed with him around they world. For time has a way of white-ash-| | ing things and people; and that, very likely, is why we look back to the “good old days” and complain that our times are out of joint. If we could go back, to any bright epoch we might choose, we should gain very little. -. We should find Drake, as Dr. Mil- ler says, something very like an out- and-out pirate. And the same would be true of the others whom the ro- mantics love. . King Arthur's knights, if we could) sec them in the flesh, would very like- ly turn out to be a group of swagger- ing, uncouth roisterers from whom we would depart with relief. Christo- pher Columbus, greatest of admirals, quite clearly failed to impress very many of his associates with his splen-| did halo. The men who followed Cortez into Mexico would prcbably- have said that it. was a miserable Job, sadly underpaid. Lee's army of northern Virginia—perhaps the most “romantic” group of soldiers ever seen—was really dreadfully ragged, frequently downright filthy, and in its off moments utterly unpreposess- ing to the casual observer. ——__.—_—_—. And so {t goes. Those bright human | Gladstone‘ Seeks actions that men of all ages love to: remember usually don't start to ylit- ter until at least half a century has passed. Harsh Words Tt has been @ long time since such strong statements have issued from the white house as those given out, by President Hoover in connection with an: attack on his policies by the} Navy league of the United States. . “Tissue of falsehoods" and “deiib- erate misrepresentation” are merely 20| siderable, but the big navy ’ people! ‘|happen under uncertain conditions \the Wilson slogan of “Open cdve- | scale down the war debts owed to the, {in which bored-looking and’ immacu- | Those people in the old whaling town synonyms for a shorter and uglier word in common use ainong, the bulk of the country’s population: wheh Pressure demands it. eye Ni As it stands now, the president 1b. in the position both of denying the| Navy league's charges that he is; “abysmally ignorant” and the con- tention that his policies are not in, the best interests of the nation. j The whole thing probably will be} threshed about—if not threshed out— during the next few weeks and may even be an issue in the next congress. | The power of the presidency is con- carry some weight also. Were the times happier from an economic and political standpoint, the president's broadside would set! tle the matter, but. strange things) and indications are that the presi- dent’s demand for a public apology by William H. Gardiner, league pres- ident, will be met by a sticking out of the tongue rather than the asked- for admission of error. Back in. the Roosevelt administra- tion it was different. In those days the presidency carried enough weight to enable .Ex-President Roosevelt practically to obliterate a naturalist by calling him a “nature faker.” 86’ recently as the Wilson regime a defi- nite word from the president was suf- ficient to settle a question of this character. But what riled the president,’ 60 strongly appears to be the insitiua- tion of the Navy league that he is not playing fair with the nation in his naval policy. It hints at a seqtsty understanding between him . andi Ramsay MacDonald, reached duririg MacDonald's visit to this country two} years ago. This is a charge which cannot and should not be ignored because it places the integrity of the president before the ‘bar of public opinion. Hoover is entitled to a defi- nite judgment on the issue. If it develops that he has reached “secret understandings” with any foreign powers he will be convicted. by the peoplé. Few phtases “were more popular during the war than) f nants, openly arrived at” and the idea still rules in America. The question raised is important because it is not the first time that this charge has been leveled at the president, at least indirectly. In..fi recent dispatch to the “Néew~ York! Times, Richard Oulahan, its Wash- ington correspondent, asserted , that indications in Washington were thet Hoover and Premier Laval of ‘France had agreed that it-is necessary to), United States but that nothing was} j being said about it'in official circles except that an indirect denial had been made of the teport. ———_——_— Intelligence of Dogs The traditional dog. show ‘of society, late dogs sit around and wait for the judges to decide which is the finest example of well-bred uselessness, are more or less familiar to everyone. In London, recently, However, a new kind of dog show was staged and it sounds as if it must have been high- ly interesting. “This was a show of Scotch sheep! dogs—collies, most of them. Instead of strutting’ at the end ot. .thels leashes, these “dogs were “taert- ott} into fields and made to show how skillfully they could, eagh in turn, handle a flock of sheep. Before it was over, spectators discovered that the dogs could do the job just about as intelligently as any human be- A dog show.of that kind must bé refreshing. There is some point4o-it|_ and the prize winner is useful as well as ornamental. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without reg: | to whether they agree or disa; with The Tribune's poli Are Roads for Speeders? (New York Herald-Tribune) { The quaint old-fashioned motorist, who likes to loaf along permitting the| occupants: of the car to enjoy the landscape, as in the days when the! automobile was used as a “pleasure! vehicle,” has small comfort on th proud modern highways. On these he is looked upon and treated as a! nuisance to be honked at and har. Ned. So, if he is sensitive or-sensible,! he chooses to drive on the back rouds! where he is not classed as a pariah.| But the byways are seldom smooth; they are usually bumpy—too many! Jolts in them for a pleasant drive, | To intimate that. the leisurely; driver deserves anything better than| the leavings requires courage. Yet the! New Bedford Standard has the te-' merity to suggest the construction of | “woods roads which will delight the: soul but have no attraction for the| travelers to whom speed is eyery-| thing.” Furthermore, the Standard! supports the astonishing thesis that “the people who do not want to speed | have rights and, if they. are driven’ off the trunk lines, will demand*roads' on which speed is forbidden or ren-| dered impossible by their character.” | The slowpoke driver has rights?’ are precious antiquarians. | i Dickinson’s Help Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 31.—Members of the board of directors of the Dick- inson Association of Business and Public Affairs and members of the Lions club will be hosts to » large delegation from Gladstone next Tues- day evening to hear that village's Proposal to enlist government aid in building a dam on the Heart river east of Gladstone to provide a res- ervoir for irrigation purposes. Gladstone men express @ desire to, enlist Dickinson aid in promotion of the project. 3 Quotations | All life is a racket.—Mayor Walker. * # * ought to. be careful that they are All that is distinctive in man,| not dam marking him off from the clay he| Ramsay Contributed to The Tribune by Roy Crane, in the interest of unemployment relief. walks upon or the potatoes he eats, occurs in his thoughts and emotions. —John Dewey. ee People expressing party views ing national interests.— ‘Donald. Bernard Shaw. | * ee the there is something behind it.—George Tent. The necessity to make no change : Jin our national officers becomes 5 Fo beth Mi. JUPITER and Dirk believe the same. NOW. GO ON’ WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI Berors the disclosure that not only’ Inspector Kane, but old Mr. Jupiter Glmeelf, and‘even Dirk, elieveds her-brother,. bad. robbed. and murdered Mrs. Jupiter, Mary ||| sat stunned. ~ Zs if that were true, as you remains ‘killed Eddie?” Kane lifted e: “But you sh chim!” he said, ag if dealing with an unreasonable child. “Just anot! ~ of these hit-apd-rup drivers, It’ murder, of course, But nine out of 10 of them aren't caught. It's too bad. But if you look at it another way, It’s mercy.” .. “You can sit there and say that!” Amazement’ and desperation made her bold. . ut what do you want the mat- ‘ter stirred up for?” Kane was Getting wrought up. “You ought to be glad it's finished. .Your ,the question—who brother's better off where he fs than | if he'd lived, to take the rap. You'd rather see him killed accidentally than live to go to the electrig chi wouldn’t. you. Believe me, he’ lucky.” 4 oe “Electric chair?” “The gray eyes blazed scorn him, “You don’t mean that, And Eddie, wasn’t killed accidentally, You know better than that, too, You can get eye-witness . testimony of a dozen people—' “Eyewitness testimony sn't worth a damn,” gaid Inspector Kane with finality, “People don't know what they see. If one says {t, they all say it. They want to get in on the excitement, that’s all. “But Mr. Bowen and | both saw. We're not just—people.” Kano laid a pencil down with a deciaive ‘ ij “You're ‘hypped’ on the idea that eomebotly was after that brother of yours.s;-And.George Bowen {s a re- porter fora sensational néwapaper. Heltsee anything that: weal give him a big.story." x “Mary: shook her head. She was , Rot much older jherself than the “baby brother” was finding @ Cuses. for, but she tad grown’ up) ‘awiftly in these recent weeks. New dignity sat.on the: girl's slim shoulders as ‘he’ faced the -Police inspector. and her. voice was calm and determined, “No, you're wrong. You can’t dismiss us as lightly as that. I + May. be.an imaginative woman, and &@ relative, but Mr. Bowen ts neither. And ms to be the only person begides myself who.cares what hap- Evep ‘Dirk, my stumbled on the loved “bas changed lately. He “doesn’t want to talk about the case. I don't know why, unless—" But she decided t# keep her persdhal affairs ‘to ‘herself. She "drew up sharply, “I do know that Eddie was killed, deliberately. Mightn’t it have been the other fellow, the one he owed money to? Why hasn't anyone found him? He's the one who's really to blame!” ; “What do you know about the other fellow?” Kane asked suspi- cloualy, “The same as you do. That tf Eddie did it—and I don’t believe it for a minute—he was made to do it by the man wed money to.” . . ANE smiled tolerantly. “I wouldn't say that, Miss Hark- ness. That's only a theory. You've nothing to back it up.” “Haven't 1? Then I'll find some thing. I’m going to prove that Ed- die had no part in that crime if it’s the last thing I ever do.” Her small fist beat the table by way of em- phasis. Kane pursed his lips. >YAs you please, Miss Harkness,”. he said, “bui I think you're making a big mistake. You're a very lucky irl." Mary moved impatiently, but he fixed’ her with an earnest eye and continued, “You're no relation to the Jupiters, are you?” he asked abruptly. + “Why. no,” Mary-replied tn sur- prise. Kane nodded his head sagely. “Well, for an outsider, you're sit- ting.in the-lap-of Luck, {f you only Knew it. Those two old people set great store by you, and I under- Stand one. of the last acts of that old lady's life was to ask her lawyer draw up adoption papers for you.” The storm of resentment that had racked Mary during Kane's tions had left het more ca pl Poseful’than she’ had ever been in her: life. where for ee 5: done, Inspector,” she told him with @ chilly little smile, and went out quickly. Her abrupt. departure left In- spector James Kane considerably nonplused. . T= hauteur Mary had donned for his crushing departed as soon as she left the police offcers’ presenc however, As she went down thi stairs to the street floor her spirits dropped rapidly, “Well, well! Little children of the storm,” observed a familiar voice, It was the reporter, Bowen. “Say, I've been looking everywhere for you. Got one or two little mat- ters I'd like to talk over with you. You wouldn't have lunch with me, would you?” “I- don’t feel much like {t, thanks,” Mary answered indiffer- ently. “We could: get a cab and go up- town,” he offered, “or we could drop in next door—if you don’t mind eating in an abandoned saloon.” Then as her face did not clear, “It'll perk you up. Better come!” His antics were irresist!- bly silly; Mary laughed and agreed. The rain was coming down in sheets. “Got an umbrella? Wait a min- ute.” Sowen turned back and Mary’ beard his inquiring belfow echoing through the udictal- corridors. “Hey! Anybody got an umbrella?” He came back quickly with a top- coat over his arm, “No: luck,” he reported, “but maybe, this'll do.” He covered her ‘with it, bat and all. turned up his own coat collar, and We cannot go on buying our daily bread and butter with paper unless . | Poured like steam. side and the only waiter. a repel | ambassador to Washi | New York, Oct. 31.—In one of my more statistical moments I figured out that an average $5 hat would wind up by costing a New Yorker a hundred dollars, or thereabouts. The figures were based on the sup- Position that the owner of the hat went about a bit. Thus, if he ate in places other than lunch counters, he would check his beanie a couple of times a day and run up a bill of $60 @ year. If he went out nights and dropped in at a dance, whether in a night spot, a speakeasy, a Chinese restaurant or a hotel dansant, the tariff would be two-bits more—per- haps as much as $100 @ year in all. Just to give you an idea of what a hat.is worth to almost everyone except yourself: a few months ago the concession in the New Waldorf Hotel was sold. It brought almost. ,000 | Something like a million dollars is said to be invested in little coops where you and I and all the rest of us toss our hat for the evening. Gaz- ing fondly upon one or two of my vintage hats, I often wonder. why I Pay good cigar money to protect it. After all, it's all velvet—or should I have said felt?—to the gent who} bets on a hat concession. If trade comes in, all the concessionaire has to do is go around collecting. The space was already there! So were e tacks. And the investment in) the hat is yours. So the concession| holder gambles on the prospect of People showing up and paying his Figure how many people have to show: up to get back $45,000! Yet, I am told, the smart boys of the hat check world figure on some-. It was dark in- lent-looking creature in greasy black, stared at his pretty visitor as if a woman's presence in the place were rare indeed. ‘When they had ordered and sent him away, Bowen apologized, “This is an awful dump, but it's & good place to talk. Take your things of?” He took their wet coats, the one he had loaned her aud his own, and hung them to dry over the back of the two vacant chairs at their table. Then he looked about cautiously. The place was empty except for two men who tose to depart, toothpicks in mouth. fn © O80 Ma4®* said, “You're funny. What're you doing it for—to cheer me up?” “You did took kinda dithery. Don’t know what dithery ts? Well, no matter. Bigger things on foot.” Turning serious abruptly, he low- ered ‘Bis: voice discreetly. “Listen. Remember when your brother was burt, bis talking about a fly?” Mary nodded. i “Well, it kinda stuck in my mind. | Thinks 1, I'll bie myself out to the racetrack some. sunny afternoon and nose around. You know what? There's a racetrack gambler hang ing around Jamatca that everybody calls ‘The Fly.” “Do you suppose ft could be—" He threw out bis bands and shrugged. “1 hi "t found any- body yet that’s seen him with your brother. But they all know Eddie down there. Sooner or later I'll find out what the tie-up was, Any- how, it's a tip.” “Did you see him?” “No, and that’s a funny thing. Nobody’s seen him for a couple of weeks.” Mary calculated rapidly, “It was —two weeks ago tomorrow night—" Bowen nodded. “Correct.” Excitement kindled flames in the girl's cheeks and brought stars to her eyes. “Oh, if it should be—” She Brasped both his hands with her own and gave them a glad squeeze. “If you help me to clear up all this trouble, ['—I’ll—I don't know what I'll do!” “Hold {t, hold it!” chided the other, re got a weak heart, Be- sides, we haven't got to first base yet in the matter of evidence.” “But we will! Ob, 1 knew all along there was something back of this.” Her face clouded again at the recollection of her recent inter. view with Kane, “Maybe he'll do something about it now!” Bowen observed her bitterness, and guessed its cause. “Listen,” he told her sternly, “AU 1 ask te—don't say @ word about this to Kane.” Curlosity prompted her to ask his reason, “Well, more than one reason,” They drew back while the murder ous-looking waiter served their food—buge plates heaped with steaming spaghett! and mea: balls, Bowen jerked a thumb after the waiter’s retreating back. “Two years out of Sing Sing—bim. He's got to stay where the police can keep an eye on bim or go back to stir, Good guy. He wouldn't cut your throat for less than a dime.” As. Mary surveyed her plate dis trustfully, he added “Go abead. Eat your lunch, Poison's not his line. But as 1 was saying, if we find the guy that killed your brother, 1 want the story—I don’t want the other papers to get it, And an- other reason is, if the Fly ts the they ventured - forth. Several sprightly leaps landed, them breath- ; man I think’ he is, it'll take more less and laughing. {n the dingy! than Pretty Jim Kane to bring him jentry of a small one-time saloon, “Thapk you for all you have from which the smell of hot food | in.” (To Be Continued) AR PAC PLO greater in the light of daily develop- ip ea dae ee R. Robinson. America’s entanglement in world, affairs 18, now complete—Henry Ber- enger, French. senator and former ‘ington, Mooked as though it might be taking By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association It was found in Scotland, as has been found also in this country, that about 70 per cent of all of those who were overweight had. mothers or fathers who were also overweight. It is believed that this is a part of the desire of those who are overweight to attribute their condition to cir- cumstances over which they have no control, rather than to. their own mode of life. Thus the patients them- selves tend to magnify the hereditary side of their weaknesses. American physicians have felt that the tendency of the children of fat people to be fat is not something in- born, but is most likely due to the fact that the children live under the same conditions as do their parents, and that the children therefore eat too much and exercise too little ex- actly as their parents eat too much and exercise too little. There is, of course, something to be said on both sides. Certainly there must be some hereditary tendency to overweight, because thie excess fat is deposited in the children in rela- tively the same places about the body as in the parents. In other words, in one family the woman will thing like 50 per cent net on their investment. ee & On paper, $45,000 may appear to be quite a long shot where other peo- ple’s hats are concerned. But the hotel concerned has a dozen dining rooms and there are scores of private parties, dinners and other goings on. The turnover runs into thousands of hats. In the old days, when night clubs tould be mentioned in the present tense, a corporation was supposed to control most of the hat check busi- ness of the big town—with millions ket. Hat check girls became colorful, and almost romantic figures of the night life. They were presented as wise young women, hardened by what they had seen and heard. The men- tal status of many of them was greatly exaggerated. One check girl actually was “built” into one of the better-known Broadway figures. But Renee Carroll, for such was her name, was one of the smarter girls. She remained relatively unspoiled. And then began to cash in on the reputa- tion the newspaper folk had built for her. Instead of telling the columnistic gents what she knew, as she had for many a week, Renee started writing her own material. A Broadway mag- azine picked it up. She began to broadcast and even appeared in a movie about Broadway life. But just between you and -me, I like the color her hair used to be a bit better than I iad now. * * The best known of the old-time hat check kings was ope Leon, who dates bac kto the days of Jack’s historic cafe. When the restaurant business the skids, Leon looked about and de- cided that the big steamship lines were getting some of the better spenders. He bought up the check concession on half a dozen boats, but still is interested in the Broadway belt. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TODAY {S THE- ANNIVERSARY CAPTURE OF ITALIANS On Oct. 31, 1917, an official report, from Berlin announced that 120,000 Italians and 1,000.guns had been cap- tured on the Tagliamento Plain. The engagements in which the Italians were captured, were declared in the dispatch to have been “very successful.” A new Austrian army under Gen- eral von Krobatin moved southwest- ward from the Carnic Alps and at- tacked Gemona. The Germans pushed on _southeastward from Udine. On the same day, Germans in Bra- to spend on cornering the hat mar-) Daily Health Service OVERWEIGHT NOT ALWAYS A MATTER OF HEREDITY Analysis Shows Many Fat Persons Have Diets Rich in Sugars and Fats and Poor in Proteins tend to have fat arms and relatively thin hips, whereas in the other grou they will tend to have fat hips bub relatively thin arms. Certainly, how ever, there is much to be said for the influence of environment and the habits of the family as regards eat- ing. There are certain families of for- eign parentage which attempt, in this country, to maintain the dietary habits they had abroad. Diets of various races vary greatly in the amount of sugar and fat that they contain, Most people who have paid little attention to diet underestimate great- ly the amount of food that they ac- tually eat. The majority of people who are overweight claim they eat like canary birds and that they never indulge heartily in food. If, how- ever, a careful invoice is made of all the food that is taken in, it is usually found that they eat excessively. Furthermore, when they are put on diets containing very small amounts of food, they begin to re- duce weight immediately. Moreover, an analysis of the previous diet usu- ally shows that it is rich in sugars and fats, whereas the diets ordered by the physician are likely to be rich we and weak in sugars and fats. STnAUEDRESorenourmammmmmammaceeecsosee ccna ees ne eee een ET Oe > | ' BARBS >-—————___—_-_______. Business may be bad, but doctors ——<e i have plenty of patience. { * * % It’s getting so Chicago won't tol- erate killings in holdups. ee * Toadstools, says a headline, are as- sociated with magic. Yes, when as- sociated with mushrooms. se # Optimist: the man manufacturing brewery equipment. Anyway, tsa *cinth the average girl knows a trombone player the minute she kisses him. ee Having a past is interesting if you can be sure it’s past. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Florida citrus fruits were shipped last season to every state in the union except California and Arizona. STICKERS 1. ° WOLF 2 3 LION 15. LYNX +. Inthe word “WOLF” there are two letters (O, L) which appear in “LION.” , ren wed a aged nS? By in a changing another letter the word +“ LION” will-be formed. In the same , way “LION” may be changed to a new word for Step 4 and then to “LYNX.” ,, } Gan you supply the words needed for « Step 2 and 4? : new 2 zil were declared in revolt. The Bra- zilian army was mobilized to handle the situation. “Chairman Hurley, of the United States shipping board, promised that the United States would have ready tons. during 1918 ships totaling 6,000,000) When a girl makes THIS CURIOUS, WORL ca GLADYS ARKE: up her mind to get a job, she first makes up her face. D f a c