The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1931, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON A Community Asset Report by John W. Reel, city rec- reational director, of the use being made of the Burleigh county World War Memorial building will warm the hearts of folks who sponsored instead of beef, she is directing her dollar toward the support of one branch of agriculture and, by indi- rection, taking it away from another. ‘The same thing is true of the vari- ous cereals, vegetables and other crops. Statistics show, for instance, that the nation is eating more spin- ach and less bread than was the case 10 yedrs ago. In this change the wheat grower loses which the spinach raiser gains, despite the fact that the consumer's dollar has not been di- verted from investment in an 2gri- cultural product. { In lke manner, various agricul-' tural regions are pitted against each other for advaritage. At the recent International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, North Dakota sponsored a “wheat to meat” exposition, illustrat- ing the manner. in which this state is going into diversified agriculture. The object, of course, was to inform People in other sections of the ad- vances made here and induce them to come to North Dakota and join the movement. The exhibit stressed the relative , cheapness of raising forage, feed hogs and cattle on low-priced land in com- Petition with the highly-developed, high-valued, heavily-taxed land in older states, It was intended to make farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa! wonder how they were going to meet, such competition and, perchance, to} come out here and get in on the “ground floor.” And the exhibit told no idle story. The jncreasing competition from these northwest states is important to those folk in the lower middle west. Success in our livestock enterprises here may mean disadvantage to them. The result is to emphasize not only the widespread importance of agri- culture but the fact that when onc discusses agriculture as a whole he 1s referring to a many-sided industry which has within itself many conflict- construction of the. building and who| are helping in the effort to make it @ real community asset. It is a bit difficult to view the building now in the roseate light of 1929 and perhaps, if the project were being initiated now it would meet de- feat, just as a similar proposal re- cently was defeated at Huron, S. D. ‘The fact that the taxes assessed for the structure may seem somewhat onerous now, however, cannot dim the fact that the structure is attain- ing the usefulness. which its sponsors, envisioned for it. The benefits which it has produced for the city by bringing people here from other parts of the state to at- tend conventions and meetings can- not be denied. Some local business men assert that these benefits alone) more than outweigh the additiona! taxes which they are required to pay. Other advantages which the city has gained by reason of possessing this building are a reputation for be-/ ing a progressive, forward-looking community and fame as a city of relatively small population whieh is not afraid to tackle a big proposi- tion. Practically every visitor who comes to Bismarck sees the building and marvels that a city of this size should be so well equipped to handle public enterprises. He takes that good impression away with him and Spreads it in his home community. But over and above such benefits fs the effect which the structure ‘s haying upon the social, physical and moral development of Bismarck’s peo- ple. Considered from these angles it is an unquestioned asset. Reel's report shows 6,850 persons: used the structure in September, 15,- 600 in October and 16,500 in Novem- ‘ber, @ total of 38,950. Most of these persons were Bismarck folk who came not once but many times, It affords facilities for men, wo- men, boys and girls for both recrea- tion and more serious pursuits, Nearly every night one or more events is taking place somewhere beneath the Toof of the big structure. The kitchen and dining room are particularly in demand and, when combined with the other facilities in the building, offer @ convenience which no other building in this part of the Northwest can boast. But, gratifying and encouraging as it 4s, the report of the uses being made of the building indicates that many persons who should take ad- vantage of its attractions are failing to do s0. Its capacities and oppor- tunities have not yet been fully real- ized and it may be some time before they are. ‘The thing which will do most to) help the building managers to réatize| their aim of having every Bismarck citizen use the building to capacity is an appreciation. of the fact by the Public that it is their building. They built it and are paying for it. Their money provides, directly and indi- Tectly for its upkeep. Only 4f it is used to the utmost will Burleigh coun- ty and its citizens get full value for their investment. A splendid start has been made. The good work should be continued and improved upon. A happier, healthier, more congenial community will be the result. Gompetition’ in Agriculture decision of the National of the farm board emphasizes anew ing problems. This, of course, con- tributes to the difficulty of a general solution for agriculture’s ills or of es- tablishing a common viewpoint ‘or them. On Handling Guns When three Illinois children were killed by the use of firearms in one day recently, it set a lot of people to thinking, both about the trend of the times and the circumstances which permitted lethal weapons to come in- to the hands of juveniles. Any person reared in a family where the use of firearms is commonplace is, or should be, meticulously careful in their use. The more experience a man has in the use of; weapons the more fearful he becomes of them. Watch an expert rifleman, trapshooter or pistolshot some time and notice the respect which he accords his weapon. He is afraid of it for he knows it can be very deadly. : But against this respect for fire- arms we have a carelessness which is appalling. Records of the last 12 months show the youngest victim of @ gun wielded by itself was a baby 19 months old. The child found a loaded revolver under a pillow. It was an interesting toy until it exploded. The case was listed as an accident. One child, four years old, found a ae in @ bureau drawer and the ith angel had another job. fee most distressing of all was the case of a Brooklyn plumber and his five-year-old son. They were great pals, just as the ideal father and son should be. The lad went rummaging through the house and found a pistol. Appearing in the dining room where the family was eating supper, the lad Playfully pointed the thing at his Dad and pulled the trigger. A widow was left with three small children. The tearful sobs of the little boy for his father could not bring the man back to life, A Bismarck man who knows some- thing about weapons offers this com- ment: “I want my children to know the Pleasures of the hunt when they grow ‘up but I don’t want them involved in any tragedies that I can prevent. I am teaching them now never to point any kind of a gun at any human be- ing, not even a toy pistol which couldn't possibly harm anyone. I don't want them to get bad habits where anything so deadly is con-. cerned, “Only a fool will point a weapon at another human being in what some folks would call.fun.. People who do Should be kicked until they can neither stand up nor sit down in com- fort. Any gun, loaded or unloaded, is dangerous. Every gun should be con- sidered loaded at all times.” ‘The gentleman feels strongly on the subject, but who will say he docsn’t take the proper attitude? Editorial] Comment Editogtals printed below ‘show the trend of thought by other e They are published without to whether they agri with The Tribun A Will and a Way (New York World-Telegram) Fifteen thousand Philadelphians stormed a city council mecting in the City of Brotherly Love Thursday night, with the result that the coun- cilmen slashed about $30,000,000 from next year’s budget. ‘Twas not theirs to reason how. ’Twas not theirs but to do or die, and they did. As a result, there will be no 35 per cent increase in the Phila- ee a OM: neatly every prod: uct of agriculture is in direct compe- tition with some other agricultural Product for the public dollar. When delphia tax rate. There will be no 50 per cent increase in the water rate. There will be instead widespread sal- ary cutting or a general erasing of drones from padded payrolls, A Japanese legend has it that mu- the ‘housewife decides to have beer/S° Was devised by the gods to lure I of pork for dinner, or lamb the sun-gods from a cave where she had retired. ‘New York, Dec. 21.—One of the old- est residents of Fifth Avenue’s most exclusive sector is, I have “just learned, a huge but affable hippo- potamus. His name is Caliph and he has been looking out upon the comings and goings of the rich and socially eminent folk for some 20 years or more. This, by the way, is the near- est thing to a jungle that Caliph has ever known, for he was born in cap- tivity in this section and has occu- pled a cage in Central Park which is within growling distance of the fa- mous “Avenoo.” He has been visited time and again by the children of the rich and the children of the poor. And it’s all the same to Caliph, who, after all, is a hippo. * * * Just a few feet away, in another central location, is Mrs. Murphy's farmyard where folk yearning for touch of the pastoral can go and gaze wistfully upon a few chickens, ducks, cows and pigs. All of which you'll find in the guide books! But the. other day I was in- formed that just across Fifth Avenue, in the huge and expensive apart- ments of the nifty Sixties, there are a number of eminent business and society folk who have come to enjoy the barnyard noises that float through their windows on quiet nights. Several have expressed great de- light at being able to hear chickens cackle in the early morning, and cows moo. A young lady who should know about such things informed me re- coal baron, frequently goes to roof- top and window to gaze down at this tiny fragment of farm life just across the street. There are a number of others, I am told, who began their climb to riches and fame in farm spots who seek out apartments in this section not only because of its exclusive neighborhood, but partially because they enjoy a visit with the geese and chickens. And here, by the way, you have an- tial section on one side of the street; and the town’s tiny public farm on the other. xk OK Holmes has disappeared from the Central Park farm belt. Not so long ago he told me that he'd been there some: 50 years, and was the oldest zoo keeper. Now he’s retired. other of Manhattan’s amusing con-! trasts: an ultra-fashionable residen-| Which reminds me that old Phil! He was particularly pleased by his speaking acquaintance with the As-/® tors, Vanderbilts, Gerrys and others| | Many of them}. who lived hard by. he had known as youngsters and lately he has come to know members of @ second and third generation. Of late years, his task was to keep an eye on the camel ride. Maintain- ing a good circus-like appearance, certain to attract the attention of the youngsters, he wore the costume of a Zuave. He had the reputation of be- ing @ pretty fair camel rider himself, Sometimes, he also attended the pony ride section. But every youngster, nursemaid, and parent in the park knew him. Astors, Vanderbilts, Ginsbergs, Tona- zettis and Grepopoluses were all in his daily routine. Cop ewes 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) SK TQ) DAY ah at MARY STRUGGLE IN ASIA MINOR On Dec. 21, 1917, England staged a strong offensive in Asia Minor, along the Nahr el Auju river front, with the resulting capture of six vil- lages near the mouth of the river and the Turkish stronghold of Ras ez Zandy, two miles northeast of Beth- any. Report that Germany was consid- ering peace was circulated with the information that a government bu- reau for studying questions relating to peace had been opened in Berlin. Dr. Karl Helfferich headed the bu- reau, England, after suffering a heavy property and life loss in the airplane raid Dec. 18, again was paid a visit by German planes, but with smaller loss. One German plane was brought down. cently that E. J. Berwind, the great} ~~ STICKERS Quotations | Wealth, notoriety, place and power are no measure of success whatever.— H. G. Wells, English novelist and his- torian. xe * Am I an actor?—Charles Rogers, movie player. * eK If all the folks in the United States BEGIN HERE TODAY ANNE, CECILY aad MARY- ANCES SRN WIOR tive RO and icedno and they instst on keep- pretenses of their former PHILIP ECHOYD. . Fou for eight years. They tere and ara on ber to mi vaanage a BARRY MeKEEL e without tclephon- with Barry. telephone call from end, ERMINTRUDE nite NOW GO ON WITA THE STORY CHAPTER V open '-FRANCES!” Ermintrude said breathlessly over the telephone, “I've made the most marvelous, thrilling discovery that you could ever possibly imagine! Mother and Daddy have gone for ride, but 1 said I had to study and | rushed right in to phone to you. | I'm so excited 1 can hardly talk. I'm just eb:-lutely shaking all over, I'm kind of pale and trem- bling. Listen, I've found out who @ Certain Somebody 1s. Yes, honest- ly. Everything about him. And {t fs just too perfectly, marvelously wonderful. It {s really. “Mother's cleaning woman didn’t come today, so Mother went ahead and aired the mattresses and did every silly thing like that, and it Pretty near brought on a nervous headache. So when Daddy came home and she was pounding the steak he eaid, ‘No more of this. We'll jump in the car and go over town for dinner.’ plate right away from her, he said hurrying, but you know how I am. I have to tell things in my own wey—and Mother said she wouldn't dress and put on a corset for any dinner on earth, and Daddy said, ‘Just put on your coat over your house dress, you're as sweet as a daisy and neat as a pin, and we'll go right up here to this neighbor hood place, we can get something.’ So we did. And we hadn't much more than taken our seats at the table in there than who should come walking in but Him! “I thought I'd die! Honest, dar lng, 1 thought I'd just pass out, He had his hat a little one-sided, and he bad his cane and everything, and I never saw him look more handsome. He gave me one of those cool, penetrating glances of his, and I could see he recognized me right off—but, of course, he didn’t let on or anything. He just pulled out his chair and sat down facing me. Facing me! Feature that, Mary-Frances—facing me. He looks even more handsome sitting than he does standing. There “seemed to be worlds of unspoken THREE KINDS KAY_ CLEAVER And he took the} ¢, the steak would keep and—I am/(, would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of them- selves—Calvin Coolidge. * * * we ae A do nothing ee iven by public opinion.—Senat William E. cb Md Idaho, * It is fortunate that we can ride to the poorhouse in such nice automo- |e Cyrenius Cole of lowa, ee * I never wore a sleeveless nightgown in my life—Estelle Taylor, divorced wife of Jack Dempsey. f BARBS ‘ eo A number of universities and col- leges that lost money on the football season are to think that perhaps the game was overempha- sized, after all. * * A Chicago man was jailed the other day for failure to pay alimony to his ninth wife. What is that old line about “the woman pays and pays”? * ee A Canadian gypsy asked police to jfind his daughter-in-law for whom he had paid $2,500 and who had been kidnaped. Tough break, what with the depression _ a * After going to England in search of peace, Mahatma Gandhi finally sailed for home with the threat India and Britain may come to blows. It is very difficult to fight a war with Patience. * *k * We will not be really sure there is ® war between China and Japan un- til one of those countries sends some- body over to borrow something from us. * ok OK Professor Einstein will study again Fe the California Institute of Tech- nology this winter. We don’t know ‘just what he will study, but he really ought to devote some research to the new golf ball. igisgncte George Bernard Shaw forecasts that Prohibition will be a successful ex- Periment. That's the same chap who Picked Carpentier to whip Dempsey. * eK It remains hard for some of us to understand why the world is not spelled “pullitician.” Daily Health Service COMMON, IS NOW RARE Was Spread From, Horses to Men; Now Checked by Sanitation By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association ‘When automobiles were more in- frequent and contact with horses was ® common occurrence, disease membranes or the skin and the mu- cous that comes from the nose and throat of the person with the dis- * * * So serious is this disorder that York state for lands they were cheated out of. And farmers are try- GLANDERS DISEASE, ONCE | | every human being that has it should be isolated promptly either at home or in the hospital. Animals that are infected should be promptly de- stroyed. Furthermore, whenever a case is found in @ horse, all of the other horses in the group or in the stable should be tested to find our whether or not they have this con- dition. All of the infected animals should be promptly removed and the most thorough disinfection of the stable should be provided for. As was previously stated, this con- dition is not common at this time either in horses or in man. Among the steps which have been taken to prevent the condition is abolition of the common drinking trough, sani- tary supervision of stables and black- smith shops, and very careful testing of all of the horses in regions where the disease is common. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: ing to collect financial relief for the lands they are unfortunate enough to own. Chaotic is a good word, but you ought to see some of a congressman’s mail! * ok x Ann Harding, film actress, suffered @ dislocated shoulder, and coukin’t remember how it happened. If you have been to the movies, however, you Probably know. . * * A scientific writer says our jungle ancestors sprang from lions, tigers and other beasts. And perhaps it's * e Indians won damages from New’ just as well they did. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) F “Darel” said Mary- Frances. “If you think ra back down now at this critical time—' came to me. You know how I get the om am lurrying. eee ND then when I was just posti- tively dying anyway with ex- citement and everything, you know, Daddy looked up and saw him, and he said to Mother, ‘Trudie, there's that young fellow who took the part of the brother in the show last night. “I thought I'd die. I just about passed out. It was too perfectly thrilling. ‘Nactor and everything. But I never let on. I just opened my eyes in what you call my big- eyed, innocent way, you know, and T said, ‘Do you know him, Daddy? “Well, of course, Daddy, didn't know him, but I kept on looking innocent, and I began to pump, and I pumped and pumped, and I found out everything, and Daddy and Mother never dreamed that I was interested or anything—I am burry- ing. “He's a member of the Stephen G. Sperry Players, You know, they are putting on a one-act play two times every night right over here at the Hong Kong. They just start- ed this week, so that's whkt he's been doing around this neighbor hood and why we've never seen him before. He's not the leading man, or he wasn’t in the show the folks saw (that’s where they went when questions in his eyes, too, I'll bet @ thousand dollars that he thought, seeing us together every afternoon, that we were sisters, and he was wondering and kind of mutely ask- ing me where you were. He loves you, Mary-Frances. The more I looked at him the more I was cer- tain of his unspoken love for you. One of my strong psychic hunches they sneaked off last night while I was at your house), and the folks didn't like his acting so awfully much—but you know they just ab- solutely aren't judges of things like that at all. "Member, they didn’t even like Chester Fairfield in the ‘New Western Stock Company last winter, nor anything. They don't care much for Ronald Colman, even. They're awfully crazy that way—I am hurrying. “I tried to_see what he ordered, but I couldn’t tell, but it looked like a steak, because he had such a hard time cutting it. He just went on eating, in a perfectly cool kind of masterful, dignified way, but ever" once in a while he'd lift those won- derful brown eyes of his in a kind of mute appeal like asking where was my beautiful sister, © “'Nafter while Daddy said for me to stop staring at that fellow, that I,was attracting his attention, but Mother said nonsense I was only a little girl. So then I said, with an- other of my big-eyed innocent looks, as you say, that I wondered what his name was, Mother felt in her coat pocket on the back of the chair, and there was the program from last night; she’d saved it for the ‘Coming Attractions,’ you know. She put it in the menu, so he wouldn't see we were talking about him, and now listen, darling. You'll hardly believe it. His first name is Earl. One of your favorite names for men. And now listen. His last mame is DeArmount, Capital D, e. Capital A, r, m, o, u, n, t Earl DeArmount! Isn't that the most marvelous thrilling name? A ‘de’ and everything! 1 nearly died when I read it right there on the program. And Earl always being your favorite name, next to Chris- topher and Anthony and Hilary, for men. It's just simply more than coincidence. It’s just Ike you'd known from childhood days that you were going to meet man named Earl, and souls reaching ou! to souls and thought telepathy an: everything. I guess that just about LOVE TRAHAN Low remarks indicate a lack of high thoughts. @ 1931, by bleday, Doran and Co. proves it more than anything could. “They just had ple for dessert, and I saw him shake his head, kind of bored and superior, that he didn’t want any. But he ate awfully slow: ly, and he hadn't finished when we left, and I had to walk right past him, I could of almost touched him, My heart was beating so fast it pretty nearly stifled me, and my knees shook and everything, But even for your sake, darling, I didn’t dare glance at him as we passed. T'd of died. I know I would, and Mother was right behind me and everything, “But when Daddy was paying the check, up in front, I did kind of glance toward him. Mary-Frances, he'd kind of turned around in his chair, and he was looking right at me! 1 nearly passed out, And 1 can’t explain it, but right then an- other one of my psychic hunches came to me—you know how they do Gnd it was just as if he'd said, in So many words to me, ‘If you girls are downtown tomorrow after school I am going to come up and speak to you.’ “He'll do it, Mary-Frances, 1 know it with all my innermost be- ing. It makes me just kind of tremble all over. Do you suppose we'll dare? The more I think about it, honest, the more I think we just absolutely won't dare. I was think- ing, like Danty and Beatrice, it might ‘ust come to be one of those beautiful, passing dreams—" “Dare! Well, Ermintrude Hill, if you think I'd back down now, at this crucial’ time, after—" Mary- Frances stopped, caught her breath sharply. Deep annoyance, coupling so suddenly with her intense ex- citement, had all but betrayed her— “after we've promised Miss Byerly that we'd take part and every- thing—” Miss Byerly was their Sunday- School teacher. ASN hung up the dishpan, and turned on the faucet above the sink, and swished the water about with a brush, and decided to let that do for this evening. Phil, sure ly, would be here now before long. Phil was late again. She did not mind, because she had heard or read that the secret of successful love lay not fn ignoring faults but in recognizing them and not mind- ing them, Years ago, when Phil had always been early, she had not minded that, and 20, sensibly, there was no rea son for minding now because he was always late. Probably it was merely a habit and not a fault at all; or were habits and faults the same? She took two damp tea towels from the seat of a chair and went to hang them on the rack above the stove. It was mean of Mary-Fran- ces to skip off, as she had, before the tinware was washed. It had been sweet of Cecily to offer to help, though- she should have known Ann would not allow it when she had company. Cecily was in love, For nearly 10 minutes Ann bad for- gotten it: Poor Cissy— Ann caught it back and tried to correct it. She likes it, of course. I am in love, and I like it. Of course I like it, I must like being in love with Phi} —who is always late. She turned out the kitchen light and went through the big dining room into the front hall. Mary- Frances was coming quietly down the stairs, and she tipped her chin to sauciness as she answered Ann's question, (To Be Continued) ~~ < e—~s ets pS eae ?