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

4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1981 The Bismarck Tribune \ An Independent Newspaper 1 THE STATE'S OLDEST ' NEWSPAPER t (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) ........ teeeeeseese sees 7.20 Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ........... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, three Years 0.2.00. quo deu ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, pel Member of Audit Bureau of 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 ot 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 (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Hoover’s Hat in the Ring Politicians are setting the politice: props for the 1932 campaign. As usual the national Republican con- vention will be held in June, and Chicago, which in years past has en- tertained several pow-wows, will be the setting for the stirring politica! drama. With the preliminaries in shave, the next natural move was to throw President Hoover's hat into the ring. There have been mutterings from the progressives that Hoover should step aside for another leader, but prece- dent is too firmly established to even entertain such an idea. Senator Fess of Ohio and Patrick Hurley of Oxla- homa, the secretary of war, have sounded the keynotes and the federal machine will begin to garner dele- gates. The scene will now shift to the South, where the federal organiza- tion depends upon solid blocks of delegates to put Mr. Hoover over as smoothly as was done in the case’ of President Taft,,against whom the up- rising was no more intense than 1t is today against President Hoover. Only an-economic miracle can saye Presiderit Hoover from defeat. Po- litical precedent in the past ‘has es- tablished the general conviction thai a party which loses control of the house of representatives eventually fails to elect a president. Something may happen between now and next November to reverse political trends. The Democrats may make some blunders which will give their bandwagon a set-back, but al present writing it is rolling merrily along. There is nothing stirring or con- vincing about the speeches of Fess! or Hurley. They fall upon tired ears’ and fail to stir the listless spirits of the rank and file of the party. in the hearts of most voters of both dominant parties is a yearning for a new deal. There is a feeling that the federal job has been bungled. Their minds are open and they await with interest the arrival of a new leader and a new message. The political adages of the dead past fail to in- spire. " The oratory of henchmen is like offering the voters a stone when they ery for something more substantial. ‘With millions unemployed there is little enthusiasm over the plight of Europe or interference in foreign af- fairs which has cost the taxpayers of this nation billions and, if the inter- nationalists are to triumph, will cost them billions more. The voters of ” this nation are thinking about their own plight. They are more interest- ed in where the next meal is coming from than in cancelling billions af loans owed us by foreign nations. George Washington’s advice stiil holds good in great crises: “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, the Jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence ig one of the most baneful foes of Republican government.” Not a Farm Issue In all the welter of arguments by wets and drys over repeal of the pro- hibition laws, there has been an in- creasing tendency in recent weeks to emphasize the results of such change on the farmer. Those seeking repeal assert th: farmer would benefit greatly while the drys claim the farmer is better off with prohibition than without it, ‘This, doubtless, is what inspired Sec- retary Hyde to undertake a study of the results of which the subject, should be announced soon. But regardless of the Hyde study or what wets and drys say about it, Jeohibition ig not and will not be a farm issue. There are too many ma- 10 years and are known to everyone, is that of taxes. Directors and supporters of the cumstances offer to press the apper- ent advantage which a joint discus- sion of liquor and taxes gives them. {The wet newspapers are bearing down {hard upon the fact that the govern- ment is spending some $40,000,000 a year on prohibition enforcement and is annually losing the tremendous revenue which it took from the old legalized liquor industry as taxes. Fs- timates of this amount vary with the 00| enthusiasm of the estimator, but even the drys admit that it is a sizeable figure. Against this the prohibition sup- porters must balance the benefits which they assert the nation has en- joyed from the prohibition law. And at the bottom of this contro- versy there arises the old question as to how much liquor is being drunk. If the quantity is as large as the wets say it is, then it would be only the nart of common sense to legalize this industry so that it may again be taxed. Rightly or wrongly, the wets are asserting that consumption of liquor is as heavy now as it ever was and the only difference is that it is tax- free. That is the argument which the dry forces must meet, not what effect repeal would have on the farm prob- lem. When either wets or drys attempt to localize prohibition as a farm issue they are being a little bit dishonest. The farmer is no more concerned than the city man. His interests, whether wet or dry, are the same and for the same reason. Hope for the Future fact that Americans are again giving clese attention to the benefits of life insurance may be interpreted as prov- ing that the nation has hopes for the future. The prudent, forward-looking man is the best customer of the life insur- ance companies and reports indicate that these firms are beginning to show a pick-up in new business. At a meeting in New York recently, executives of life insurance compa- nies were themselves surprised to learn they had paid out $2,600,000,000 to beneficiaries’ and policy holders during the last year. Authority for the statement was Frederick H. Ecker, president of the Metropoliten Life Insurance company, who said the figure quoted exceeded the payments for 1930 by $353,000,000 and that for 1929 by $638,000,000. Safe Flying Altitude ‘The great dangers that attend high- speed flying, exemplified not long ago’ in the tragic death of Lowell Bayles, were further illustrated a little bit later by an accident that gave Frank Hawks a few uncomfortable moments. Hawks was soaring along at his cus- | tomary speed of slightly legs than 300 miles an hour when a bracing wire on his plane broke. Fortunately, he was flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, and had time to regain control and make a safe landing. After landing, however,.he said that if such an accident had happened while he was flying within a few hun- idred yards of the ground—the alti- tude at which airplane races are held —he would inevitably have been killed. At that altitude, and at that speed, the slightest mishap means sure death, Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they a1 or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Price of a Joke (New York Times) Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. In November, 1929, Senator Moses, at a Washington dia- ner of New England manufacturers, was pleased to refer to the insurgent senators as “sons of wild jackasses” or “sons of the wild jackass.” There are variant readings of a text which has rankled in Progressive bosoms ever since. Adopting a suggestion of The Times, he explained that he meant the Biblical “sons of the wild ass,” using Hemippus as the type of freedom and independence. But his plea in mitigation didn’t serve. He had made the most successful and famous of his jokes. He ought to be willing to pay the price of it. It took 133 ballots to elect Bobbin Boy Banks speaker of the house in the thirty-fourth congress. So great & post was worthy of so long a strug- gle. But what is the president pro tempore of the senate when there is no vacancy in the office of vice presi- dent? Only an understudy with the power to name his understudy. Not in_ 13,300 ballots would the anti-Mo- saic bloc consent to Moses. How long is the organization of the senate to be postponed and the time of the senate wasted in this fruitless vot- ing? The argument that the progress of legislation is delayed thereby need not be stressed. The point is that this veteran, soaked in the traditions of the senate, is obstinately curtailing the vocal opportunities of his breth- ren. Even the “regulars” must be getting impatient. Melt, O granite heart! A gibe that has kept red hot for twenty-five months is worth the paltry payment you are asked to make. Step down and let another take the place of George the Pro- *iseribed. With only slight change, Senator McNary’s speech of renun- ciation after the first ballot on Tues- Jor points to argue which have a real| a will serve your turn. Here fs the Place in the debate to place much, emphasis upon it from the standpoint of logic, ‘As It stands now, the biggest ar- gument which must be settled in con- ‘nection with prohibition, other than revised version at your service: “I retire, and I wish to say that I am amused with the unkindness shown me by some members of the senate.” Chile is the largest coal producer of any Latin American nation. Mex- feo ranks second, those which have been mouthed for} wet campaign are too astute to miss the opportunity which present cir- It may seem an anomaly“but the! ‘Unto the Least of These— | to hin EM is ht Me New York, Dec. 17.—One of the od- dest tales to come my way recently concerns an elderly and dignified gent, who had made his home in the brownstoned Fifties during another generation. ‘ Several years ago he sold the hand- some mansion and moved abroad with his family. He returned to New York for a visit. Nostalgia drew him back to the house associated with so many happy memories. Late in the afternoon he revisited | the block upon which the old home was located. He paced back and forth on the opposite side of the street, hesitating as to whether or not he; should ring the ‘bell and ask for an opportunity of wandering through the tradition-haunted rooms once more. Suddenly he noticed a stream of taxis and private cars driving up. One party after another entered. the place. ‘The former owner called a taxi driver. “Who lives there now?” he asked. The driver hesitated and then whis- pered: “What's the idea—that’s one of the swellest spcakeasies in New York.” ‘The white-haired man squared his shoulders, buttoned his coat and walked to the door. He rang the bell. The attendant refused to let him in. “Got a card?...No!... Sorry!” “But this was my home. I lived here. I'd like just to see it,” protested the visitor. x ek ® The attendant called the boss. There was a brief cross-examination. The old fellow seemed to have good credentials. “I'd just like to see -my library again, I was very fond of it. You don’t mind... .” j The proprietor of the speak weak- ened. He let the stranger in. The man made his way up the elaborate stairway and to the room where the library had once been. Yes, there upon the wall was the huge moose-head relic of a hunting trip in Canada many years before! That alone was left! All the rest had so strangely changed. Stretched across one side of the room was a regulation bar. Chairs and tables were scattered about. A noisy, gay crowd cluttered the place. Two bar- tenders rushed to fill orders. The gent from the “Mauve Decade” stood shaking his head in bewilder- ment and finally, with a stunned ex- pression, moved slowly to the bar and | asked for a whisky and coda. They tell a sequel which I am dis- inclined to believe. Hours later, so goes the story, a dignified. elderly man—very spiffy—was seen leaving the place carrying a moose head un- der his arm. He was helped into a through her husband's pockets while he sleeps. In most places the purpose taxi and taken to his hotel. . 1 * * ® But one yarn for which I can vouch is that of another survivor of the “good old days.” For generations his family had oc- cupied a fine home in the Murray Hill section. This, like many another ele- gant residence, had become a high- toned “whisper-low.” His sister had been married in this Place. And when, recently, the anni- versary of her wedding was near, a bright idea dawned. “We'll have a surprise for them,” he whispered to friends. “We'll ar- range a big party at the old home and on the day of the anniversary we'll drive them there.” Arrangements. were secretly made. And, sure enough, on the day of cele- bration the party drove up to the Place that had once been home and Staged a very gay private party in what had once been the nuptial room. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) bi TODAY <4 AN 1S THE WerAby SOVIET CHURCH BREAK On Dec. 17, 1917, it was announced in Petrograd that all lands, churches, money, gold, silver and precious stones of the Russian church had been confiscated by ‘the Soviet gov- ernment. Religious instruction was explicitly banned from all public schools and church schools were ordered closed immediately. Employes at the Petrograd city hall went on strike when the new Bol- shevik mayor, a former day laborer, appeared. On the Italian front, an Austro- beaten off after severe fighting, and an attack by British troops at Monte Fontana Secca also failed. 8 BARBS | —_—— The wolf isn’t coming to the door any more. He has heard about the hot dog business. o* 4 It’s a bit difficult to analyze the Chinese-Japanese trouble, but we fig- ure it has something to do with a laundry A judge in Maryland has decided it is illegal for friend wife to go STICKERS A SYMMETRICAL CUT TAPERS EVENLY The name of a city is hidden in: the above sentence. Can you find it? ei Wit HS eae HERE ARE : 10,000 SPECIES of pockets has been forgotten. us % Think of the swell break the fel- aa and have to find something (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) sisi ear foodies Pea |" Quotations | nn There is no crisis in the United States. It is pust a psychological illu- sion.—Abbe Ernest Dimnet, canon of Cambray Cathedral, Paris. xe * I think my English pretty good— Lupe Velez, movie star. / se @ The nation which has no control over its defense forces is not a re- sponsible Rac ter lo ad Gandhi. * I did not meet Greta Garbo. No- body can; she’s too shy.—Vicki Baum, celebrated author. eee I want this matter of my sex life settled now until I die. I am thor- oughly impotent—Theodore Dreiser, author recently indicted in Kentucky. * * * If the five-year plan fails, Soviet leaders will simply launch another — J. N. Willys, ambassador to Poland. Lions Club May Be Formed at Halliday Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 17.—Answer- ing an invitation of the Halliday Commercial club, a delegation from the Lions club here met with the north-branch group. The Halliday | men have expressed a desire to or- ganize a Lions club there and 12 men are at present working to obtain addi- tional members. In event enough members are obtained the Dickinson club will install the new group. Rep- resenting the local club at the meet- ing were E. A. Patterson, Rev. G. H. Wienbergen. | Minot Greeks May Build New Church Minot, N. D., Dec, 17.—()—Mem- bers of the Greek Orthodox faith in Minot, enthused by the response at a recent fund-raising dinner, are laying plans for the construction, of a church lows got who have been sent to prison | on property owned by them here. during the depression. nk oe If achieved, the church will be the first Greek Orthodox place of wor- ‘There's a great big headline on Page|ship between the twin cities and One waiting for the visitor from Eu-{Great Falls, Mont., members of the rope who is not here to investigate |group say. economic conditions, More than 100 Minot residents are affiliated with the Which the name German is attached, communica} {of all of the diseases affecting man- Plamann. Dr. £. F. Ringlee and H. J, |"nd. German attack at San Marino was, * ek ® How would you like to be a con-| towns. But Not By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association Among the other conditions to pancakes and hambur- ger steak, is that variety of eruption of the skin which resembles measles, but which is not measles and which is far less serious than measles. German measles is a mild disease which begins with symptomis affecting the nose and throat, lasting two or three days. Following this mild mani- festation there comes enlargement of the glands behind the ears and at the back of the head, and with this a very red eruption, spreading over the face and gradually thinning out over the rest of the body. The eruption usually starts and fades within a pe- Tiod of 48 to 72 hours, It is believed that this disease is spread from one person to another through the secretions from the mouth and nose, probably by direct contact of a healthful person with a Patient or with articles freshly soiled with discharges from the nose or throat of the patient. oe 8 ‘The period of incubation of the dis- ease is from 14 to 21 days. Usually it ‘will be found that the person affected hhas been in contact with a case of the disease two or three weeks previously. While the disease is not serious, it is one of the most highly ble The disease, when it begins in a ‘school or @ home, spreads rapidly to almost everyone available. Because of its transient character ‘and the rela-, tive mildness of the symptoms, it is likely that many cases of German measles are never reported, and in- Daily Health Service German Measles Very Common Dangerous Disease Usually Developes Within Two to Three Weeks tant, because most of the cases get well with just ordinary hygienic care, ‘However, it is never safe to hazard @ guess that a condition is German measles and to overlook the necessity . for medical attention, because quite frequently the condition is confused with scarlet fever, a most serious oversight in any instance in which it happems Robertson to Lead ' - Band at Dickinson Dickinson, N. D., Dec. .17—W. D. Robertson was named president of the Dickinson City band at an election at the city hall. Ray Thomas was chosen vice president; Dr. J. D. Ott, secre- tary; Roland Mars, treasurer; and Nick Nicola, publicity manager. Named on the board of directors was A. Rose, C. F. Patzer, W. R. Everett, Robertson and Ott. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: deed that the cases are much more frequent than is commonly believed. While German measles is likely to attack children much more often than adults, it is more frequent in adults than ordinary measles. The condition ‘ppears more commonly in the winter ‘nd in the spring and is much more frequent in city than in country areas, Obviously the prevention of this con- dition involves the avoidance of con- GLAOYS PARKER. group in addition to others in nearby | tact with any of those who happen to| A cold house in the morning gets you have it. The treatment is unimpor- all steamed up. LL CECILY and Mal FENWICK live parents, once wealthy, poverished that Anne’ "2 ea a t the ie NOW GO ON WITN THE STORE CHAPTER II ~* i lg date was April, 1930. The strip of rubber on the wind- shield clickety-clicked and swung down and around and up again, and down and around and up again, through the crawling drops on the small half circle of dimming glass. Street cars clanged, and rain-damp people scurried, and shining um: brellas bobbed, and stop and go 8! nals rang violently red and green. On the bridge the dull gray sky parted for one long slit of jade above the river's blue-black end, and here Barry sald, “Look. at that color!” and Cecily forgot for a mo ment that she was an inconsiderate idiot and that it was Ann’s week to do the evening work. “Here?” Barry McKeel stuck an arm through the opened window and brought his small car to an abrupt standstill. Cecily jolted for- ward in the seat, and he said, “Ob, sorry! Turn here, did you say? Up this road or whatever it ist” “It is the driveway to the house,” she said, and pressed her lips frm- ly together. There should be no apologies, no warnings ag yet. The wheel turned slowly under his thin hands, and the car nosed its way inte the gloomy tunnel made by the great scraggly. un- trimmed trees. A hawthorn branch reached out and slapped it smartly. The low limb of a cedar menaced just ahead. The right front wheel splattered and splashed down into 8 deep puddle, Barry said, “Dog- gone!” and turned on the lights of the, car, and Cecily, a novice with heroism, said, “Well?”. in a voice that looked down its own nose. He explained: “I thought of the grandest speech as we turned into these woods—all about dryads and everything, and I had to pass it up because I decided that dryads weren't blond, and | tried to fix it up with a fairy princess, and that was too sappy, and the thing was in ruins in spite of its swell ending. 1 might give a hint of the ending—it was all about bow I'd hoped against hope for a mere mor- tal but had known better. Fixed up, that would be pretty good, wouldn't it?” coe CrciLr laughed, Relief made it louder than usual, and sheer bappiness made it last longer. Mary-Frances, who since she had first spied the car from the oriel windows in the parlor had been Standing, ears alert, in the front doorway, heard-the laugh and closed the door softly and sped to the kitchen, “Hi Ann,” che announced, “Cissy’s coming home with a man fo acar. I'll bet $10,000 it's a oew boy friend. I'll bet -he’s the one she met at Marta’s party and has been 80 cuckoo about, I'll bet she's eee bim home for dinner. I'll Ann, slicing carrots, orange and yellow rounds that clinked on the bottom of the kettle, inserted ab- sent-mindedly, “Don’t say ‘I'll bet’ like that all the time, Mary-Frances. KINDS. BY KAY CLEAVER a On the bridge the dull gra here Barry said, “Look at th The {deat It sounds horrid. You should hear yourself, and you wouldn’t do it.” “—bringing him home to dinper the boy friend,” Mary-Frances in- sisted. “No,” Ann said, and sliced the carrots, “She wouldn't think of bringing anyone home to dinner— especially _ without telephoning ahead of time. She’s probably com- ing home to change her dress—" Mary-Frances had rushed away through the butler’s pantry, bent on reaching the mirror in the din- ing room—a monstrous, chilly place, where, painted on the high ceiling, great fat fish lay inert in dead-looking _bottle-green waves. 'N the front hal? Cecily was laugh- ing agai, above the , pleasant undertones of a masculine laugh and voice, Mary-Frances had to walk right up to them before Cecily said, “Oh, Mary-Frances, dear!” as if she were amazed to find a third person existing anywhere in the world. “This is my little sister, Mary-Frances, Mr. McKeel.” Cecily, Mary-Frances knew, would like to have her curtsey, but she wouldn’t do it—not at her age. She bowed, primly—though demurely was the word she had tn mind— and stuck out a small hand that had not been washed since she had come home from school. He was polite, of course; but, in so far as Mary-Frances was able to judge by the dim light shed from the one small globe high in the hall ceiling, Cectly's admiration of him was unwarranted. Hé was an inch or two above average height, but Cissy had said that he was tall. True, she had added that he was thin; Mary-Frances substituted “skinny” as more apt. ee His bair, which Cissy had de- scribed as auburn, was merely dark- ish, and he wore it too short, and he should, at least, smooth it down with his hands, as Phil and the movie men smoothed theirs, if he thought it unmanly to look in the mirror. She could reach no de cision about his eyes—Cecily had described them as jolly and brown sh y iat col because he was staring too hard at Cissy, who, in spite of the fact that her nose needed powdering, looked prettier than usual, though she was acting awfully silly and laughing all the time, She shouldn't let this Mr. McKeel see that she was so excited. Rosalie had told and told her, had told all three of them, exactly how to act with men: “Nonchalance savored with win- someness; dignity softened with coyness.” The door on the right of the hall led into the library; the door on the left led into the music room. Ce clly paused for an instant between the two. She had passed by the parlor: it was grimly impossible with its what-nots and horsehair and family portraits, painted by Grand’s friend who had decorated the ceilings in the house. The library, with its cherry fur niture, was the best-looking room; but it smelled always of old apples —Grand dropped the cores behind the books on the shelves and forgot them, and they decayed—and the floor was often scattered with his nutshells’ and ginger-snap crumbs. The music room, a north room whose ivy-vined windows looked out on dark, close-standing trees, would be musty and damp; but, since it was rarely used, it might be orderly, and wood might be set for a fire in the grate. If she lighted only the roseshaded plano lamp the ceiling, sprawled with its indecently overdressed angel play- ing @ harp, would not show. eee Ss turned to the music room ‘and opened the door to heavy chilled air and etale cavernous darkness. It would seem silly to go stumbling {n there hunting for the piano lamp. She pressed the wall switch, and she laughed again, a trifle shrilly, with the faintest touch of bysteris. he could not say, “Grand and Rosalie won't allow to change anything,” because that would be an apology and a half lie. Nor could she say, “We are poverty- stricken, ou see—too poor to afford cleanliness, or fresh alr, or warmth.” Things of that sort weren't said. LOVE STRAHAN ©: 9 1931, by ubleday, Doran and Co. | ted for one long slit of jade above the river's blue black end and | lor!” and Cecily forgot that she was an inconsiderate idiot. | No, there was nothing to do but i laugh at the angel, who certainly i wore plush underwear under those swaddling draperies, and laugh again at the worn-out rag of carpet spotted with roses, and the wreck of a grand piano powdered with dust, and at the knicknacks, grimy and chipped, crowded in the brack- eted mantel over the pink-tiled fire place wherein, small and scrappy as an old bird’s-nest, were some crumples of paper and some slivers of wood. A pair of scissors lay in- vitingly open on the discolored bro- cade seat of the divan; scraps of sewing were littered about every: where. id : Mary-Frances sald, “Hurrah for the one who finds Rosalie’s scis- sors! ’s been hunting them for perfect ages,” and went to pick them up, swooping down, on her way across the room, to snatch here and there at the scraps on the floor. Cecily glanced at Barry. She said, “T'll light the fire” and stopped laughing, and went to the mantel and took 3 match from the broken horn of a china Little Boy Blue. Barry, behind her, offered, “Let me—" “I have it,” she answered, and jerked the damp match across the sole of her shoe. [t was ridiculous for her “fingers to tremble. The match snapped in them, and she threw it spitefully away and teached for another. Barry’s cigaret lighter clicked. The paper beneath the splinters of wood flared sulkily in its smoke. “It is rather chilly this evening,” be said, Outside, in spite of the rain, the air was balmy. They had spoken of ft not 20 minutes ago, before he had become a conventional stranger who looked at her quizzically, who pitied ber, who knew that even the matches ‘n her house were damp and useless, who tried to make for her the apologies she would not make for herself. ~ “Sit here, if you will,” she said, turning one of the tarnished pink- brocaded chairs toward the sickly fire. “Mary-Frances will entertain you while I go and find Ann.” (To Be Continued) a e+ oe ee **