The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931 he Bismarck Tribune 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 gecond class mail matter. \ GEORGE D. MANN i President and Publisher. 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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 Fo ESTA as ee ole ee In A Trying Situation There will be little general sym- pathy with the mendacious attack of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania upon President Hoover However opposed anyone is to the policies of Mr. Hoover, no one can question his patriotism or devotion tu duty. Few presidents have been in a more trying situation. He is being blamed and reviled for a world sit- uation aggravated of course at home by political manipulation, and in- trigue. ‘When Congressman McFadden charges the President with selling out his country to Germany, he in- dulges in mere twaddle. Such state- ments from men in position of auin- onty merely brand them as useless ‘and inefficient public servants. Mc- Fadden has ceased to be of any us? to his constituents. His extravagant and untrue charges fall by their own) weight. They increase rather than diminish President Hoover's prestiz: There are several lines of attack, upon the Republican administration as reflected in the leadership of Mr. Hoover which are’ legitimate and timely. There is a woeful lack of | harmony among the Republicans but) on the other hand there is no fixed program presented by the Democrats sparring for political advantage. It is to be deplored from the Re- publican standpoint that President Hoover has no political qualifications for the office. He is a great execu- tive, used to managing @ board of di- rectors and having his orders car- ried out without much debate or op- position. His long residence in ‘Washington has not made him skilled in the uses of politics and he knows' * little of the rules of the game. This’ ignorance has made his position} doubly hard. His powers of analysis are keen. ‘He has summed up what is wrong with the world, but his skill in leadership! is not sufficient to meet the crisis. There is little of the peacemaker about him despite his Quaker back- ground. He dislikes political strife but has no skill of the Penrose, the Crane or the Hanna to. bring ene- ‘mies into camp. Successful presidents have gradu- ated from the ward school of politics up through the various stages into what is supposed to be the graduate school of statesmanship. President Hoover remains the great engineer,' keen of intellect and a master in| putting his finger on what is wrong, but lacks the personality and driving force to sell his ideas to men who are always politicians. It is his misfor- tune. It may prove the nation's misfortune. The Bolshevik Lure F. R. Kohoutek of Max calls at The Tribune office and reports that num- erous Communist meetings have been held it for us. 20| and the son is afraid he never will be able to leave Siberia, The following excerpt from the story: “Up near Omsk somewhere I was put to work with Tartars and Mongolians under Russian bosses. There were twenty bosses to ten workmen. We Americans were given an interpreter. We had to work seven hours a day without stopping to eat. When we did eat, we only got black bread and tea, after working from 7 a. m. to 2 p.m. “We got no pay. The company Some men had no money for seven months. But money would not buy food. Only @ government order would give us a chance to buy bread. “Our quarters were small and crowded. “The Soviet government pro- hibits children under eightecn from working in the mines, but little girls and boys. from thir- teen to fifteen years old were working in the deepest parts of the mines in the nosthern Urals. Evidently Mr. Kohoutek prefers to believe a fellow American who has tasted the fruits of Sovietism in pre- ference to a Communistic propagand- ist. ‘We think he shows good sense. Mexicans Boycott Santa Claus, Santa Claus is being boycotted by the authorities in Chihuahua City, Mexico, according to a recent news dispatch. Teachers in the public schools have been ordered to teach their children, instead, about the an- cient Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl. All of this, to anyone who used to delight in Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico,” is rather interesting. For Quetzalcoatl was surely the strangest, god in all the New World pantheon. He was the “fair god”—white skinned, with golden hair, who came to Mex- ico out of the ocean to the east, taught people the arts of civilization, and finally sailed off on a raft of) serpents, promising to return again at some later date and make all things right. Cortez's conquest of Mexico was made possible partly by the fact that many Mexicans believed he was the returning god. Now, many centuries later, Quetzalcoatl gets identified with Santa Claus. His story has taken an odd twist. Decreasing Traffic Deaths Figures just compiled by the Trav- elers Insurance company show that automobile traffic deaths have been decreasing, in many sections of the country, ever since mid-summer. Al- though the total for the country for the entire year is now estimated at about 34,000—2 per cent over 1930's figures—there are spots in which the trend is definitely encouraging. In New England, for’ instance, the number of deaths is definitely below linois; Michigan and Wisconsin a-de- crease of 4 per cent has been record- ed. «In the Rocky mountain group there has been a drop of nearly 7 per cent. It's teo soon to congratulate our- selves, of course. That total of 34,000 is still cdésgraceful. But even little decreases here and there are good news. Let's have some more of them next year. A hypocrite is a man who can't even believe what he hears when he talks to himself. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show trend of thought by other edito: ‘They are published without reg to whether they agree or disagi with The Tribune's policies. The Penance of N. Y. U. (New York Times) For the seven years during which he has been football coach at New York University Mr. Meehan gave small boys and old men in California and Maine who otherwise would not have heard of it. But New York University authorities have decided that successful football takes too greai @ toll from college life. They have determined to restore football as a’ sport once more and to cease subsi- izing and recruiting. The amount of time given to football by the un- dergraduates is to be cut down, ana the teams will be coached by alumni to take a sportsman’s chance in con- tests with other teams. If New York University had come to this Sccision after an unsuccess- ful effort to compete with the foot- | ball of other large educational in- held recently in and about the Mc-| stitutions it would still be entitled Lean county town. The burden of the talks, some of them illustrated, is the wonderful ad- vantages of the Russian system as: opposed to our own. Every compari- son made by Communist speakers finds the United States at a disad- vantage. Russia is pictured as a land of milk and honey in which the to praise and respect. For agrec- ment is growing that the over-em- phasis and commercialization of American college football have be- come a menace to the standards of education and have given false ideals to students. Retiring, however, ‘at the height of its fame on the grid- iron, undeterred by the fact that i's teams will be at a disadvantage with those which continue to professional- common man has a much better op-/ ize, New York University earns doubie portunity to enjoy the good things of life than is the case here. Kohoutek says he doesn’t believe it and offers a copy of the United Mine Workers Journal to show why. This magazine, in a recent issue, printed @ story about a young man ‘who recently arrived at New Orleans after @ personal experience with the Russian system. He was employed in a copper mine in the Ural moun- tains dnd he didn’t like it there, but, found it almost impossible to get ‘away. There were 19 Americans in the party with which ‘he lad sailed for Russia, including his father. The agents who painted to them the glor- les of Sovietdom said passports were. unnecessary but the lad and three others obtained them anyway. Now the father has been giver Russian _ citizenship papers against his will praise. Its sincerity is established beyond question, and the influence of its example will be the greater. The University of Pennsylvania, Colum- bia and Yale have taken remedial steps. Princeton for some time has been rejecting candidates for admis- sion who have gone to other univer- sities and won fame at football. In- tramural sports are being widely en- couraged. Perhaps within a fce years this demoralizing era in Ameri- can college football will be but a dis- tasteful memory. When that day arrives, there will be several to share the leadership in guiding football back from a com- mercial public circus to a wholesome college sport. The Carnegie Founda- tion for its illuminating survey, the Provost of Pennsylvania for his pio- neer reforms, will belong in the first rank. But in thet first rank there will be room for New York Univer- sity. The city for which it is named is proud of its courageous stand in this matter. — the lad’s recital epitomizes the rest of last year’s toll. In Ohio, Indiana, Il-/ New York, Dec. 22—The manner in which the gay-going daughters, sons, husbands and wives become scrambled fn the swanky New York night. spats has brought into being a strange as- sortment of ultra-sophisticated lég- ends and true tales. After all, you must remember that even in Manhattan there are but a half-dozen or so glittering resorts of major reputation, where gather the upperworld nomads: ladies and gents from the social register, debutantes and their boy friends, visiting stars from Hollywood, stage folk and writ- ing folk! Which brings me to the particular story told me the other evening by one of “the regulars”, * ok OK A certain debutante, who until this season had never before dared ven-) ture forth into the world of night clubs and speakeasies, was being ush- ered about by a young man whose re- putation was cbnsidered “question- able.” While he seemed to have en- tree to a few of the better parties, he was not considered good company nor g “good catch” for a girl making her appearance in ‘Manhattan society. His name had come up in the household. The debbie found him wise, attractive, charming. He knew his way around. He seemed to know the “big town.” He could whisper & thousand secrets about people whose names were prominent in many fields. She was impressed and attracted. Both mother and father had hinted that she would do well not to be seen with him again. eR KR And then, just beforé Thanksgiving, the “cocktail” crowd was gathering when the debbie drifted into a certain better-class resort—still on the arm of the lad. ‘At ® table, just across the room, sat her father. With him was a hand- some, flashy young woman. The father frowned. The girl arched one eyebrow. The wise young man hid a worldly grin behind the palm of his hand. “Does the girl with your dad know who you are?” whispered the young man to the debbie. it ample athletic glory. Its teams 5 ‘IT doubt it....Never saw her be- attained national fame. New York “Then, please find a way to get him University as a result of his coach-) over here . . . and make sure that ing and management is known to|he is alone ft ‘The father had.determined to talk to his daughter about coming to the cocktail spots with “that young man. The father started toward the table. “smile at him, as though he wasn't your father!” the wise lad whispered. .+.“Whatever you do don’t tip the father-daughter stuff. Act as though URIOUS WORL you might be making a play for him and meet me downstairs in the hall.” * A few moments later, the father was upbraiding the debbie, when up step- ped the wise young man-about-town. “Father,” said the candid girl, “was advising me not to come to places like this with you.” “And how about you?” the wise-one asked the older man. “For two cents T'd let, you get trapped. Do you know who you’re with? Well, unless you like your pictures in the tabloids you'll drop that woman, She's one of the Park Avenue polite blackmail bunch. That woman and two others got sev- jeral friends of mine for nice little sums. If you're already mixed up come to me. I’ve got a few things on them. They'll shut up and it won't cost money.” Father and _wise-lad shook hands. The debbie still is.seen with the young man from time to time. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) i TODAY <4 1S THE iS WAR ANCHE ERY | 0 LOSSES AT SEA On Dec. 23, 1917, the great snow- storm started on the Italian front blocking the enemy’s line of communi- cation not only with Tyrol but also with the bases beyond the Isonzo. The storm started on Dec. 23 and | continued until Dec. 31. On the western front the Germans | drove in the British advanced posts| on a 700-yard line northeast of Ypres. The British admiralty reported that in the week ending Dec. 23 a total of 13 British ships had been sunk by submarines. Eleven cf these were over 1600 tons, one was rated as being under 1600 tons, and the thirteenth ‘was a fishing vessel. This was somewhat less than the loss of the previous week when Ger- man submarines sank 18 British ships. Nebraska has more river mileage than any other state. STICKERS AND BACK OR ALL eee | THOSE WEDDING Secee | TO HER RECALL | THE @e0e0ee HE URGED. i so TENDERLY, There are five words, all composed of | | same letters, missing frem the above. Can you fill hem in? vk ri HER FAIR CHEEK i = 12-23 @ 1921 BY NEA SERVICE, mC. | Quotations | $$ e Evarts (Ky.) is.probably one of the few towns in the United States that still has democratic government— John Dos Passos, writer. * % % England has brought herself down from her high economic standard, and has, to a large extent, been responsible | said. for bringing the rest of the world down also, by 30 years of political folly—Sir Ernest J. P. Benn, British writer. eae Maybe I’m superannuated. You know I’m 70 years old—Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate. * 8 o Florida is no place for hoboes. We want them to stay out—sheriff Bob Baker, Palm bea county; * +* My ambition is to see the Prince of Wales riding a horse.—Lowise Faz- enda, movie actress. sity is &@ one man ' still neck : ke ek In fact some of the co-eds aré so fast they're gS Japs ahead. * * The prexy is probably finding that the human race is one of which he can hardly keep track. e¢* * Yet, Chicago is staging its 14th grand jury investigation of its sani- tary district “Whoopee Era.” With the new title and a chorus of comely gals and an assortment of political comedians they ought to put it over this time, * * Might even clean up with a theme song like “Sanitary District Blues.” one New York is organizing to put on grand opera at popular prices. Prob- ably on account of the-depression the artists can sing lower. x eK Although to misjudge their altruism in this case certainly would be bass. (Copyright, 1981, NEA Service, Inc.) Dawes to Head U.S. Washington, Dec. 23—(4)—Ambassa- dor Dawes will head the United States delegation to the Geneva arms con- ference. President Hoover announced Tues- day that Henry P. Fletcher was un- able to accept the post. The presi- dent expects to appoint a woman to the delegation. “The whole question of disarmament has been one of profound interest to He is negotiating with “a lady of BEGIN RERE TODAY ANNE. CECILY a FRANCES FENWICK live ib °o they insi keep. Dretenses of thelr former . NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VII 'N the hall, where Ann could see his frown, he went on. “No, It seems to me that you and J ere Pushed about, constantly and re gardless of our own inclinations, to the tune of other people's whims.” “Not—not whims,” said Ann. Philip shrugged. She bated to seo him shrug that way, pretending or, perhaps, actually signifying that nothing was of importance any longer. She began to talk rapidly. “Dear, dearest.” she said, “1 don't know, but 1 think most people's troubles are their own faults, un- less we switch to the determinists and say that nothing ts anyone's fault. I mean—ff there ts fault it mast belong to each person’s own self. I was thinking tonight, as 1 Peeled the carrots, you are like the sun to my moon. And when you shine I can shine—reflected light, you know. And when things are all wrong, as they have been lately, and you are sort of hidden from me fn the clouds, then 1 can’t shine either. Only—it is more than my shining. Then I’m just not I at all. Nor anything—much. I'm gone.” “Which, resolved,” said Philip Ecroyd, dignified young lawyer, “puts all the blame at my door, all the time for not—how is it?—shin- ing.” ‘ “No,” said Ann desperately. “No. Phil dear, you are so clever and eo wise and—I'm not. I shouldn't try similes—metaphors. They don’t at- rive. But, dear, if you'd try you could understand.” For once compliments fafled to mollity hint, “I do try,” he said. “But nothing ever works’ out for either of us, does it? We never— arrive.” He sighed and added, “I love you, Ann,” but to Ann {t sound- ed absent-minded, like “I beg your pardon” and -its ilk. She avoided saying, “Quite all right, I assure you,” by saying nothing. “Well,” be reached for her hands, “I'll be running along, then. Good night, dear.” “Good night?” she echoed, with- out the “dear.” “But why in the world are you going so early? Ce efly will think it’s queer if you don't come in and meet ber friend.” What did he mean those shrug: ging shoulders to imply? Patience? {Cecily, in a teasing humor, had said that Phil was as patient as a thimble.) Indifference? She had asked bim last woek what he meant when he shrugged, and he had an- swered that it was merely a man: Qerism, he supposed, and that he was sorry it annoyed her—binting, however, that Ann was easily an- EREE KINDS: CLEAVER ‘but no noyed, He hung up his hat again, and took off his raincoat again, and kicked his overshoes again—Phil never hurried. “I’m afraid,” he said, as he slicked down his hair again, “that I'm {n no mood for a family party nor for Cecily’s friends.” Ts music room was lighted only with the piano lamp, and off in a shadowy corner Grand mercifully was dozing. Rosalie, with her back to the light, tossed Philip and Ann & contralto parenthesis and went right on being the alluring blond bellé of South Carolina, Ann glanced at Cecily and saw that Rosalie and her allure did not matter—that nothing much mat- tered. Cecily was glowing with a blurred radiance that Ann under- stood. It came along with love, at first, and {t came because all out- side things were blurred and soft- ened and made beautiful—for the time being. : Cecily, now, could not see that Phil with his six feet and two inches towered above the shortish Mr. McKeel. She could not see that Phil, with bis smooth hair and his deep, dark-browed blue eyes, and his maturity and manliness, made Barry McKeel look boyish and fragile and inadequate. In time, of course, things necessarily emerged from the baze and crystallized into clearly outlined duties, and practi- calities, habits, and certainties. Marriage, Ann believed, made this emergence easy: totaling, as it went along, certainties, duties, habits, troubles, into a sum fine and noble, instead of confusing thenr into problems petty and quarrelsome. Why this should be true, Ann did not know. " By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Medical Association Editor, Journal of the American _—$—$—$—$—$——— The president of Wyoming Untver- against petting. But the students are and neck. ance of measles 1s in the months of March to June, the least prevalence, eon being from AM to October. f BARBS | Peteoepiy ot. more than three or o four out of every thousand cases die. The available figures indicate that the deaths in the United States run from 2500 to 8500 deaths per year. However, in serious outbreaks of the disease occurring in asylums for in- fants as many as 35 per cent may die. In poorer districts where there is mal- nutrition, overcrowding, and inade- quate’ nursing care, the death rate in children under one year of age, Tunning from 30 to 50 deaths in a thousand cases as contrasted with three or four deaths in a thousand cases in children between five and 15 years of age. In controlling measles, the health officer demands that cases be report- ed by doctors, who see then that chil- dren with the disease are isolated so as not to come in contact with other children, The public needs to be ed- ucated as to the nature of the spread of this disease so that mothers with cases in their own families will co- Ppenneate cee Seete2M 82 ee eer Pa qualities and prominence” as to whe- ther she can accept a place. One of the delegates will be Sen- ator Swanson of Virginia. Memphis, Tenn.—’ Parley Delegation 170 that the Robert E. Lee raced the Natchez from New Orleans to St. Louis up the Mississippi. And Bd- ward 8. Levy claims to be the only survivor of that historic race. Levy, 82, was one of the passengers on the side-wheeler Robert E. Lee. The trip was then made in three days, 18 hours and 40 minutes. | GENTLEMEN PREFERRED Among the Moors, if a wife does Daily Health Service MEASLES ARE MOST SERIOUS TO CHILDREN UNDER YEAR OLD | Close Care Necessary To Prevent Disease Epidemic operate by discouraging contacts, and mothers of small children will them against possible contact with cases of colds and similar illness ir The most common time of appear- ) neighboring families. It has been found that the injec. | tion of the blood of a person who ha: just recovered from the disease is Protective for a period of three tc four weeks. Hence in time of serious epidemic this measure may be used with the advice of the physician. In serious cases also the serum of con- valescent patients is injected to con- trol the complications and to hasten recovery. In this disease proper med- ical and nursing care is of the great- est importance in the prevention of complications. If the child is put to bed promptly, kept warm, adequately fed, and watched for the occurrence of complications in its earliest stages, it is more likely to recover without serious effects than if neglected in any manner. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS For once compliments failed to mollify him. “I do try,” Phil said, ever works out for either of us, does it?” and can marry again. not give birth to a son after being the women of the United States,” he; married a few years, she may be divorced with the consent of the tribe GAOT. PanweR_ A belle never has to wait long for a ring. cal persons she held hard ty a tow large reasonless faiths, and one of hers was that marriage in itself was the eternal panacea, For 8 mo ment, as she looked at Cecily, pity and fear thumped togetuer tn Ann's mind. It was an intolerable fusion, and sho rejected it, and tried to listen to Rosalie, who was telling the old May-day story, with Cecily substituted for the heroine in place of Ann, “Our dear son John was working toward his doctor’s degree, and he had accepted an assistant professor ship—um—something of the sort, in Harvard that year. Cecily was not quite five years old, but she wrote mea letter, [ treasure it yet. It said, ‘Dear Rosalie: They made me Queen of the May at my school today. They did not make Father Queen of the May at his school. Your loving Ann.’ Cecily, I mean. Fancy my saying Ann!” eee LOVE STRAHA © 1931, by N ubleday, Doran and Co. “He was a ‘steenth cousin of somebody's, and we none of us understood how he got into our Sroup at all. But there he was, and he liked us less than we liked him, and he complained about the coffee and wouldn't help with any of the work, On Sunday evening I bappened to be alone on the Porch, and there was @ glorious sunset doing marvelous purple things to the ocean. 1 called the others, ‘Come and see the ocean!’ and they all came except this Mr. Whatever-his-name-was, I thought he hadn’t heard me, he was in the dining room, so I ran in there and said again, mad with enthusiasm, ‘Oh, Mr. So-and-so, come and see the ocean!” He eat stolid in his chair and put back his chin and said, ‘I have saw the ocean.’” Barry’s laugh leaped out satis factorily. But Phil looked’ bored, bored, bored. “Did anyone ask him,” Barry, said, “about York Cathedral?” Ann did not understand, but Phil opened his eyes wider and leaned forward. “Ah! You care for the Brontes?” “Do I! Emily in particular, I've just been rereading . . . Nabi soon stopped listening, She sat with a small smile fized on her lips, and was glad that Phil was po longer bored, and that Ce cily seemed to have read all the Bronte books, and that Rosalie had been lulled and was nodding in her hellotrope perfume. She had put on a lot of ft tonight, Phil eaid that Rosalie was always ruthlessly perfumed. Poor Rosalie—she wore those heavy underarm dress shields, and they got sort of smelly, and that, probably, was why she used the perfume. It couldn’t be told— like the advertisements. Poor Mr. Redfern—if he could afford to ad- vertise— Business was so slack, right now. Sbe must insist, tomor- fow, that he write again to that man in Seattle. Phil’s voice was going on and on. Was Phil, per- haps, doing more than his share of the talking? She listened. “Rot! This stream of conscious- ness stuff—simpering at sin, whim- sical and coy about wickedness! These young moderns, these wor shipers of sophomoric sophistica- tions, squirming their words about, wallowing in sexual. discussions and Portrayals—rot! You say they'll live? 1 say that they have never been alive, They've never yelled when the doctor spanked them. They're stillborn, They—" “But see here,” Barry interrupt- ed. “My brief was for the stylists— modern, it you like, though Shake : “Shakespeare,” Phil seized it, as RYzErONn laughed but Phil, who could not be expected to laugh, since he had heard the story many times before. Barry exclaimed pleasantly about Uttle girls who went to school at four years old and wrote letters, and Rosalie began her interminable found of anecdotes concerning the if Barry bad stolen it, and shook it at him, “Shakespeare. . .” Underneath Phil's low rolling words Cecily murmured to Ann, “Can't you stop him?” That was too silly of Cecily, It she wanted anything stopped, why didn’t she stop it? Stop her Barry, whos- face was red and who looked and looked bored, bored, bored. For Phil's sake, and for Ceclly’s, too, Ann snatched the opportunity offered at the end of Rosalie’s story about six-year-old Mary-Frances and her Grst view of the Pacific ocean (“I had understood,” Hsped Mary. Frances, as she turned away, “that it was much bigger than that”) to tell about the funny man who had almost angry. Phil was not angry at all, Phil was merely intense. He always grew intense when the subjects of sin and wickedness and sex came up. Phil, thanks to his mother’s excellent training, was something of a Puritan, he said. Ann was glad of it. It made him clean minded, made bim honor and fespect women—except that—well, that other sort. And he pitied them gone with them for the Labor Day Like many other practi- party to Agate Beach, sincerely. He said that he did. (To Be Continued) - gv