The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1931, Page 4

Ren nc ORCI EE 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1981. The Bismarck Tribune}™ ™2" »thing now, and indica- | An Independent Newspaper ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Comany, 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...... $7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Marck) ......--seeeeeee eeesees 4. Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ........... 5. Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 6. ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three 2.50 Dakota, per year .. 150 Weekly by mail in Canada, per year 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 news- paper 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 & BREWER tions are the subject will be broached tunity will be offered for oratory. Few things have been more furiously de- |bated in the course of political devel- opment than this same “root of all evil.” Egyptian Toothaches { Dr. Roy L. Moodie, of the dental college of the University of Southern California, has spent the last two years studying the teeth of Egyptian mummies; and he rises now to re- 29 {mark that the ancient Egyptians knew nothing whatever about dental hy- 00/giene and that most of them were toothless at 40—after, presumably, having suffered from enough tooth- aches to make the bravest man trem- ble. All of this may have been the Egyp- tians’ hard luck and not ours; but there is something peculiarly inter- 2.00) esting in it, for it suggests a new way of looking at history. And if you fol- Jow it through you may lose a little of that universal human habit of old days of long ago. “golden ages” of the past must have had a great many rough places in them. Our own age may be unexcit- ing, but we can at least relieve the ills of the flesh a lot more rapidly and efficiently than our forefathers could. It might have been nice to live in old Egypt—or in Periclean Greece, or Augustan Rome, or in any other of those spacious days of bygone cen- all over again. If it is, ample oppor- | _____. tlooking back regretfully at the ec Briefly, it indicates that the various | (incorporated) turies, But would you have liked liv- CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON |ing in a time and place where there was no remedy for a toothache short 1896 vs. 1932 of knocking the aching tooth out with Since history repeats itself over and |@ cold chisel? over, it is not impossible that we shall} This, very likely, is an excessively see within the year, in some form or| prosaic way of looking at things; yet other, a revival of the 16-to-1 stand- | When you multiply a succession of mi- ard which lifted William Jennings|nor aches and pains far enough you Bryan to place and power in the na-/get a sum total of discomfort great tion. enough to put your whole life off key. Bryan, it will be remembered, flash-|To have no way of fixing ailing teeth, ed into the picture in 1896 on the/to lack even the most rudimentary strength of his “Cross of Gold” speech |form of eye glasses, to be obliged to New York, Dec. 16—The master of ceremonies is becoming one of the at the Democratic national conven- leave such troublesome things as in- tion. Almost unknown when thatjfected sinuses totally unattended, to convention opened, he was the party’s|have to put up with bad tonsils and biggest figure when it ended and re- mained so until his untimely death in the midst of the now-forgotten “mon- key” trial in Tennessee. But the spirit of Bryan still lingers in the minds hearts of those who now are clamoring for a revision of the monetary standard. From the far west comes a demand for greater rec- ognition for silver as a medium for coinage. From the industrial sections we hear protests against a system which shrinks credit when credit is needed most. From all parts of the nation—yes, even of the world—people point to the glut of commodities, lack of jobs, and the failure of the distribution system to perform its functions. Frequently protests against this sit- uation are directed at the gold stand- ard. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief—all may be found in greater or lesser numbers among those who apparently are in favor of what Bryan made famous as “free coin- age.” The results of this antipathy to the gold standard are apparent in most of the great nations. Only France and the United States have an adequate supply and even they, in the opinion |S¥UPremacy on the. water. On her prow of some observers, may find this pleni- tude of the precious metal embar- rassing. Rightly or wrongly, the complaint is that adherence to the gold stand- ard restricts trade by hamstringing credit. The possession of gold is the basis for credit and nations with grain, other foods, cotton, textiles or other material in plenty find them no basis for credit. Such things must be used. They cannot be spent. The effort of the silver people to inject their favorite metal into the play in a more heroic role is a natural consequence of the existing situation. Senator Smoot of Utah, conservative of the conservatives in the senate, has offered a bill to accept payments on the foreign debt in silver. It will gét plenty of support among senators and representatives from states where sil- ver is mined, if from no others, In’ England, Sir Henry Deterding, noted financier, takes a sharp rap at the one-metal standard, He says: “It is absurd to be tied to one metal—gold—of which there is not enough to go round and of which the bulk has been cornered by two countries. The world seems to have gone mad in the search for gold, which for practical pur- Poses is useless, while necessities of life such as wheat and cotton “Why be tied to a single stand- ard when nature has provided in silver another metal equally suit- able for currency purposes? .. . ‘Why not fall back upon silver as a second string in the present cur- rency crisis? ... “Countries which have adopted @ gold standard sedm determined to vie with one another to rid themselves of their stocks of sil- ver at all costs. It is this boy- cott of silver by those who wish to make gold the only standard whieh has caused the disastrous fall in silver, rather than lack of de- mand. ...” But the gold standard was pretty @efinitely established in this country efter the campaign of 1896 and has become something of a fetish with American financiers. To most of us, uninitiated in the deeper mysteries of finance, the question is a perplexing one and the thing is to hold to ‘the opinion that gold is the only Proper basis of value, But the fect that the country has ‘been strongly aligned behind the gold standard for the last 30 years or more overgrown adenoids no matter how bad they got—is the prospect pleas- ant? ‘We probably lack some things that the ancients had, these days. Yet we do livé in almost infinitely greater physical comfort, and the fact is worth remembering. It makes up for a lot of things we may be missing. American Initiative When the steamship Manhattan slid down the ways recently, America saw in the fact a brilliant ceremony which again called to mind the ex- ploits of Captain George Fried, hero of many rescues at sea, who will com- mand her. It gained some pride, also, in the knowledge that the Manhattan is the largest merchant ship ‘ever built in America. She is 705 feet long and has 30,000 tons displacement, truly one of the great vessels of the sealanes although smaller than the Bremen, Europa, Majestic, Leviathan and other famous craft. She exem- plifies the last word in luxury, com- fort and design. Yet, all of these things hardly match in significance the fact that she marks a new American bid for there flames anew a torch long dim, the leadership which America ac- quired when Salem was a great sea- Port and when Bath, Me., was one of the leading ship-building points on the globe. In no small sense the Manhattan represents American initiative and courage, returning in ever stronger Measure to a medium of transporta- tion which it once dominated. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they ag: ai with The Tribun Mr. Hoover’s Message (New York Times) One rises from reading the presi dent's message to congress yesterday with the feeling that it is in general correct but cold. Those who looked to Mr. Hoover at this national junc- ture for fervent and inspiring leader- ship will be disappointed. He had re- fused to summon the new congress in extraordinary session because he feared that it would interfere with the orderly processes of recovery and up- set the public equilibrium, This na- turally led to the hope that he would have a pi to submit which would at once appeal to the country, which he could unfold with fire and energy, and which would kindle popu- lar enthusiasm. It cannot truthfully be said that he has done this. He has, indeed, applied to the press- ing difficulties of the nation his un- usual powers of analysis, he has indi- cated the main lines which legislation should follow, has interposed in ad- vance his personal negative to various plans that have been proposed, but has somehow managed to do it all without giving a stirring watchword or symbol for the people of the United States. This may be partly a matter of temperament with the president. It may be duc largely to the complexity and variety of the problems which confront the government. But the ef- fect is, it must honestly be said, to Jeave Americans still longing for a public man who could rise to the great most important factors in amusement- dom, Relatively, he is a new figure in the theater and a castoff of the ht, clubs. Actually, he is as old as first minstrel show interlocutor. At the moment, = master of cere- monies in metropolitan vaudeville is @ gent who comes before the curtain and makes wisecracks about the mem- bers of. the cast, himself and every- thing in general. Lou Holtz, a twist- ed-tongued comedian, reigns on Broadway as the ace of ceremonialists. Not 80 long ago, Holtz and a company of good old troupers ushered a renais- ance of “variety” when their particu- lar bill ran and ran and ran at the Palace, which happens to be the “Ely- sian fields” of vaudevillians. Thereafter a certain Richard Craig, Jr., appeared with a fresh and orig- inal line of patter, much of which is said to have been born in the brains of Irving Straus, a publicity gent who steered the crowd of American mayors through Europe. Which is denied by all and sundry. Just as it is denied that young Mons. Straus supplies Ray Perkins with the wisecracks that trickle into columns. se © Then there's “Nutsy” “Fagan, an “original” both in name and method of introduction. None has been more suave than “Keating, the magician,” who amused his audiences by causing canaries to disappear before their ee while carrying on an excellent Spiel. More recently, even columnists have been drawn in, partially, because they are presumed to be impervious to the onslaught of audiences, be- cause they produce wisecracks in their Paragraphs and partially because they are well known to metropolitan au- diences. Just the other day, Rian James, “Brooklyn’s ambassador to Broad-|- way,” dared to appear on his native stage wearing a red tie. Had this happened in the office of the Eagle, the printers doubtless would have walked out on strike. ' s * *& Radio is not altogether blameless. Millions of persons are becoming ac- customed to hearing someone intro- @uce a broadcasting artist. Which reminds me that at the mo- ment radio's first libel suit pends. Aj} certain “gossip slinger,” as they are | vulgarly referred to hereabouts, sent | some of his column chatter over a certain tobacco hour. The novelty les in the fact that the lawyer for the litigant is trying to figure out how many persons listened in on the pro- RE RARY “RUSSIAN DECLARATION On Dec. 16, 1917, the executive com- mittee of the Workmen's and Soldiers’ Delegates in Petrograd approved a de- cree declaring the Constitutional Democri.is enemies of the people. The Peasants’ Congress denounced the arrest of members of the Con- ‘stituent Assembly and called upon the army and navy to defend the dele- gram in an effort to estimate the ex- tent of the damage alleged to have been done. By the way, the word “pediculous” has come into common usage in these national recognition, finally achieved it. And, amusingly enough, it came from newspaper stories. Now, to all intents and purposes, “pediculous” appears to be a perfectly proper, Harvardian word. But the dictionary says that it Hence its addition to the Manhat- tan slanguage. And how innocent it sounds: “The show was absolutely pediculous.’ (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) ; mK TODAY ANI eg 1S THE gates. At this time Russia was passing through the most confused period | since the revolution. Civil and military affairs were in a state of chaos; civil war had broken out; many districts declared their complete independence from the Cen- tral Government. ‘The -Bolsheviki were in control of Petrograd and Moscow. They appar- ently had an overwhelming support STICKERS WN WORLD... 29,145 FUBT. ..1S ALSO ONE OF THE YOUNGEST. - crisis in a great way and utter words which would not only be watchwords of debate in congress, but which would carry cheer and hope into thousands of despondent homes throughout the country. CRYSTAL TOOLS Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, of Yale University, who recently discov- ered seven rock crystal tools in a cave in France, is of the opinion that men of the Old Stone Age used these tools in the place of metal instruments, NewBorN BaBy AN iTS OWN WEIGHT a support ii OR So, iT Loses The ABiuly PERFORM THIS FEAT. SEVERAL Z, HANGING Gy ITS HANDS. AFIER A MONTH a CONSUME ABO BOO ED SEEDS EVERY TUNEE. nh Sue oF parts. It began when Ted Husing was} ® tossed off the Harvard gridiron for arte wane Husing, who has been | @ see! Oh, How He Hates to Get Up in the Morning! {ise pcan eau as | * ke T've used one cake of for three jmonths and it isn’t near yet.—Gandhi. ese Believe me, the year 1932 will not | be @ very good year for sonorous plat- |itudes.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia U. ee # Many of our inhabitants are suffer- ling from, unemployment. — Calvir Coolidge. V * * The American * a student has youth, while in Europe art is an old man with whiskers arid an inability to get away from the past.—Professor Eugene Steinhof of Vienna. - ** * I don’t care for that tripe (Ziegfeld Follies). All I like is Shakespeare, Shaw and Coward.—Al Capone. whistles whenever she comes into the office wearing # new dress., Maybe just keeping up his courage until he gets the bill. s 2 * Now that “puttid” has been found objectionable for radio broadcasts, an- nouncers are using “prediculous.” Ap- parently the radio ian is defenseless. a a @ Gandhi and the British government ehhh ded a) a of the ways. 2s 8 Only five days of recent summer yielded 12 hours of sunshine. But ieee ee (Copyright, 1981, NEA Service, Inc.) MANY TURKEYS MARKETED McClusky, N. D., Dec. 16—Three thousand pounds of turkeys were marketed here during special turkey days. Checks totaling $650 were is- sued in payment for the dressed birds. B. N. Lein, Arena, Burleigh county, brought his turkeys the greatest dis- tance, 50.7 miles, and received the largest check, $80.22. of the army, navy and laboring classes under the leadership of Nicholl Lenin, as premier, and Leon Trotzky as min- ister of foreign affairs. —_—_—_—_——_ (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) PLAN CLUB CAGE GAME Glen Ullin, N. D., Dec. 16—Hebron and Glen Ullin Lions will stage two, | basketball “battles of the ages” in the near future. The two teams, made up of members of the clubs in each city, will play one game in each city. Proceeds will be divided equally be- tween relief organizations of the two ‘cities. | Quotations In New York restaurants sufficient | for two or three persons is served with each portion; probably the waste would feed the unemployed.—The finished (Bares jl A private secretary says her boss/! Daily Health Service AMOEBIC DYSENTERY IS ONE OF MOST SERIOUS DISEASES OF MANKIND ] Attack Bowels, Early Diagnosis Reduces Danger ing and cleansing before serving, the chance of infection with amoebic dy- sentery will be relatively slight. ———_—_——. that afflicts REEDER PIONEER DIES ‘mankind, is the infestation of the) Reeder, N. D., Dec. 16—A. D. Ken- De aamebe Lins Kae called| dail, 83-year-old pioneer of Reeder a 4 who came here in. 1906 before the The disease is common in the United States, but there are records] railroad reached this community, died which indicate that it can occur in/here. He had been married for 58 every state, and it does occur more He leaves his widow and one frequently in the country districts of|son, Claude. Funeral services were the far southern states. conducted under the auspices of the Not long ago there were several|local Woodmen lodge, with Rev. cases in one hotel due to the fact that| Lindsley officiating. FORT YATES MAN DIES By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Jodrnal of the American Medical Aseociation one of the most serious diseases taminat several other|Sing, Chinese owner of the Standing ace etcted Rock hotel here, died following short illness. He was about 75 years old and had lived here for about 16 years, with the exception of one year spent at Milbank, 8. D. ‘ FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Staak tee . ee domen, gradual wasting and some- times intoxication from the infectious products. Once the disease gets into tfie body, it is eliminated with considerable dif- ficulty and chronic cases are not rare. Not more than 10 per cent of those who are infected die of the disease, if the case is early and proper treatment promptly adminis- * * * The control of amoebic dysentery is a relatively simple matter where there is capable health administra- tion. Every civilized community. must provide for sanitary disposal of hu- man excretions and for protection and purification of water supplies. Food handlers in public places should certainly be properly super- vised and thorough washing of the hands with soap and water at fre- quent intervals should be demanded. If all foods eaten raw, particularl: the leafy vegetables, are given proper sul , Which means inspection before purchase and thorough wash- It’s never the girl with the icy dispo- - sition who knocks men cold. Fort Yates, N. D., Dec. 16—Young _ | B CHAPTER IA BE the time that Ann was earning 25 a week and Cecily $16 a week, Grand had retired from the real-estate business. Grand owned nothing now except the family house and the land upon which {it stood. These, he stated, he would sell at the same time that he sold his wife and his grand- daughters. He mad® speeches about it. His son and his son’s children had been born there. (They hadn't, at all; but Grand’s memory at 74 was failing.) It had stood through the years, in stress and storm, an ever ready haven for him and his—that sort of thing. Rosalie, getting wind of the fact, some way or other, that there were such things as mortgages, had once suggested during a trying month that they borrow a mortgage—or whatever one did with a mortgage = —on the home place. Grand, sens- ing perhaps the inalienable right of mortgages to melodrama, produced quantities of, melodrama, and Rosa- Ne wept some, through her promise never to mention such a thing again. - There was no pressing need at the ti the $41.a week had to be put aside for what Cecily called the “Very- Fancy Educational Fund” (Mother, sometimes for a joke, had called the baby “Very-Fancy”; Grand and Rosalie had not approved), but the taxes were lower, since the new appraisal, and a slick shoemaker down the street put on half soles and even small patches so that they scarcely showed. Grand rarely borrowed more than a dollar or two at a time. It always had to be change, small change, that he needed. He began his new venture in a humble way. At any rate, the cost of fitting up his workshop one of the spare bedrooms was just under the amount Ann had planned to spend on her winter coat. Grand was not puttering. Grand was hard at work on his model for airplane wings that should fold and unfold as a bird’s wings fold and unfold, “There is a fortune in it,” he said, implying, however, that he held a low opinion of persons who cared for fortunes. “Ah, yes—an unlimited fortune.” eee ‘OR some pesky reason the plague-taken pulleys that were to manipulate the wings would not. work, always, with the required degree of exactitude. It did not matter greatly, because their per- versity gave Grand an opportunity to get to work in earnest on his collapsible fire escape, and this car- tied straight on and naturally to something new in elevators—a space-saving device which no one, perhaps not even Grand, entirely understood. Sectional doors came next. The principle was involved, but the point was that two or three inches ‘of @ door could be opened, while the remainder of the door stood firmly closed. Fatiure of the doors, ‘was tragedy, for with them Grand wearied of things folding and col- lapsible, and in the spring of the year 1929 turned his attention to radio development. The electric bills mounted high, and the trifles that Grand needed for his experi- ments were ruinously priced. It was in May, 1929—odd of Ann to remember the date—that Phil told her for the firat time, flatly and with no softening diminutive, that she was a fool. - “You,” he elaborated, “pretend to @espise your grandparents’ senti- ‘mentality. You are as sentimental as they ‘are, every bit—both you ERE KINDS: for a mortgage. Part of |* CECILY, : and Cecily ars Ann said, “Why, Phil are not! And, anyway,” Ann said, but more weakly, “Cissy and I do have to remember that they have given us a home all these years.” Philip, a handsome, dignified young lawyer by now—struggling might be added, except that it seems redundant—merely shrugged his shoulders and said, “Oh, yeah?” as it was being said in 1929, Ann argued, “But what can we do when he asks for things?” things. Refuse to buy any more of them. Get him a stick to whittle. Put your foot down, Wouldn't that be more sensible? Ann said, “Yes, dear,” as it has been said by placatory women since the year one. Though, of course, she did not put her foot down. It was in July, 1929—odd of Ce- cily to remember the date, but it was she who went on the first er- rand—that the two elder Fenwick girls discovered pawn-shops and be- gan to eat, according to Cecily, Mother's and Father's wedding pres- ents, They ate the little hand-carved chest that the professor of Romance languages had bougth in Genoa; they ate the clear ringing brass bowl that Mother's girl friend had sent from Ceylon. They ate Grand- ma Tamasie's silver tea service (yes, one of the Tamasies, but she and Grandpa had both died long before Ann was born), and quanti- ties of flat“silver, Cut glass and hand-painted china proved inedible. For Thanksgiving they had Father's hand-made trout rod, and his set of ivory chessmen went for Christmas. [ante days after Christmas Grand took to his bed with a bad attack of quinsy and arose from it early fn February pessi- mistic as to the future for radios and deeply interested in the im- Drovement of kettles used to gen- erate steam in sick-rooms. The wedding presents were pawned with no hope of redemp- tion, But gadget things for steam kettles were inexpensive, and the Very-Fancy Educational Fund, se- verely threatened, had not been touched. The relief was so great that this time, when Cecily said to Ann—or perhaps it was Ann who said it to ly this time—“Grand and Rosalie don’t know—they still think they sre supporting the fam- ily,” smiles could be exchanged ‘The remark was made in the up- stairs hall, directly after a con- versation with Grand in which he had said that it had occurred to him that his illness, the holidays, one thing and another, might have been rather a drain on the girls’ pocket money. Rosalie had intimated something of the sort. He intended, of course, to repay them. His grand- daughters—Heaven bless and keep them!—should not be out of pocket on his account. So, if they would maké an itemized record of their expenditures, he would attend to it, and shortly. No—no! No quib- Diing now. Payment should be ar- ranged, payment in full, and very f00n, As the girls’ heels clicked down the uncarpeted front stairs (the carpet had been sold to a junk man for 65 cents three years ago) Ann said, “They must know. But they don’t realize it, or face it, or some- thing. Phil thinks we should make TOVL ER | STRAHAN:. oracle had a maddening hal Doran and Co. them understand.” “What earthly use?” asked Ce cily, “It wouldn't change anything. It might worry them, wouldn’t help us.” but it “Phil says—” Cesily interrupted. Philip as an bit of being right. “Ann, ange! eo said, “don’t fall into the habit of quoting Phil all the time. Haven't you noticed that the wives who evérlastingly quote their husbands are never never quoted themselves by same husbands?” “V’m not a wife,” Ann said in a chilly way she had developed re- cently. Cecily giggled. Ann did not, “It sounds,” explained Cecily, “so sort of—well, immoral, said like that. Phil's not a husband would sound much better.” “Wait until you are in love,” said Ann, “and d, and you won't think it is so funny—not be- ing able to be married.” - . It was impossible for Cecily to understand why Ann should wish to marry Phil with his conspicuous good looks, his inevitable rightness, his sterling qualities, his mustache, his overshoes, and his famishing self-conceit, It was almost impos- sible for Cécily to like Phil as well as she felt he deserved to be liked; 80 she protested and declared she had never thought that, nor any- tig connected with it, funny at al ? Ann said, “Yes, but you have never been in love,” and made {t an accusation, “I've tried, but it’s like Grand’s inventions—it won't work.” “Last spring I was afraid,” said Ann, and did not notice that she had said “afraid,” “that you were falling in love with Rodger French.” “I might have; if he hadn't seid I was ‘pleasant looking’ and if he could have found anything admir- able about me besides my egrs.” “Your ears?” “Don’t you remember how he was always talking about my ears? How they were little and flat and showed pihk through edges in the sun like a child's? I loved it the first time, and kept running about with my hand mirror looking for a sunny spot in the house. But after a dozen times or so it got sour, and Wo ‘parted forever,’ as Rosalie says, when I blew up and told him f liked my flatteries fresh like my vegetables.” “You weren't in love with the one before him, either, were you? ‘What was his name—” “Mr. Toomire, he used to say over the telephone. ‘Miss Fenwick? This is Mr. Toomire speaking.’ Don't you remember.” “I didn’t mean him, ailly! 1 meant the older, long stringy one who was always bringing you photo- graphs of his family.” “Emmit Herrick Moriarty, B. 8. C. E. on his visiting cards, and he left a pack every time he came, He was kind of nice and Irishy, even - it he was a freak. But, goodness, Ann, you've got me veminiscing like Rosalie, Why the questionnaire?” “I don’t know,” said Ann, “I ‘Was just sort of thinking that you— well, didn’t understand about love.” “I don't,” said Cecily, “and 1 don’t want to ever.” (February, 1980, was the date.) “When I see People who are in love—” she Caught herself up and tucked in Dolitely—“Marta and for example— You and Phil are differ. ent, of course.” “Yes,” said- Ann, and sighed. “Yea, I suppose Ph and I are— different, of course.” (To Be Continued) aye ad a)