The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931 The 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 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- Daily by ‘mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) ........... 5. 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Any date on which one may reach the conclusion that one would be better for desisting from some practice to which one is addicted, or to adopt a course which one has not hitherto followed, is a good time to begin. However, New Year’s is a favorite date because it is the start of another year. The slate is wiped clean then and a new account ig opened. It is easier to make @ resolution than it is to keep| it. Resolutions have to do with im- provement. It doesn’t require resolu- tion to do worse than one did in the old year. A worse course offers few difficulties in execution. To do bet- ter is the one which requires fortitude and persistence. Despite resolutions we may make most of us do not change greatly from year to year. It's the trend, though, that makes the chief differ- ence. With some the direction is on an ascending plane while with others, there is a down grade and the latter is the easier course to pursue, thougti the difference between the two may not be especially perceptible. Most of| those who improve a little do not do, ‘so conspicuously, while many of those who grow worse do not do so at a ra- pid ‘rate. The result depends on the kind of a groove in which one is run- ning; for we do run in grooves very, largely. The person moving on a plane surface without any ruts to hold him in his course is an exception. ‘We do not decry New Year's resolu- tions. Good ones made and broken may be much better than none made at all. Yet, one who never thinks of better times to come. Always in our past a deeply dis- appointing year has been followed by one bright with promise. There is warrant, therefore, for hearing in the bells which ring out the old year a rising note which seems to say, with the poet: “We bid you hope.” No Slump in Gasoline No longer is it true that when automobile production declines gaso- | line consumption follows. The new car is a temptation for more and 20{ longer trips but the old bus or used car was hardly a discouraging fac- tor this year. Although fewer motor vehicles are registered this year than last more gasoline is being consumed this year. Since early in the year gas consump- miles to the gallon. Consumption in- creases with age. More bus and truck miles are being run up. While all these probably were contributing fac- tors, the bulk of the additional gal- lons must be chalked up to a wider use of the automobile. Automobile touring on the trans- continental and interstate scale un- doubtedly fell off sharply this year due to the depression, but there seems to have been more motoring than ever. Certainly, there was 10 diminution in traffic congestion. From this it is to be deduced that, in spite of the depression and un- employment, most persons still have gas money and that many have taken advantage of their enforced leisure to enjoy their cars to the fullest. While the automobile is no longer a rich man’s luxury, but is rather @ necessary part of the country’s transportation system, it is encourag- ing to know that there is still money and activity enough in the land to keep its hordes of gasoline buggies running up and down the highways. They, alone, keep a large part of the Population busy. Schooling Most Americans get their schooling between the ages of 6 and 16 years, says Prof. Dallas L. Sharp, of Bos- ton University. That is true. But most of us do not begin to get our real education until we leave school. Experience re- mains the greatest teacher. ‘When a school graduate strikes out in the world for himself, one of the first things he has to do is unlearn much of what he has been taught. The delusion that takes most time of success. Chances ‘The city industrial worker has one chance in eight of living to be 70 years old. The farmer has one chance in three. So reports of a com- mittee of the United Hospital Fund, New York state. There in a nutshell, you have a) graphic picture of what civilization is: doing to us. Health is close to the soil. The time is not far off when cities will, in large part, break up. Fac- tories will move to the open country) change of habits and motives except at the inception of another year will not get very far in personal uplift. ‘These dates come too infrequently and there are not enough of them in a lifetime, Old Toys Still Popular Toy makers in convention to feel the pulse of the toy-buying public learned what any parent could have: told them in ten minutes. The 1932 toy supply will be manufactured ac- cordingly. The conclusion they arrived at is| that there are two opposing tenden- cies in the insatiable appetite of chil- dren for playthings. While they are fascinated by the expensive, intricate, modern toy, which is often a work- ing miniature ‘imitation of things men and women work with, the de- sire of possession is still provoked by the oldest and simplest toys. Those games grandfather and grandmother played with in their youth enjoy the same popularity today. Though toy manufacturers care- fully study their moods and fancies, children from one generation to an- other change little in their reactions to toyland. They adopt the new and novel without casting off the old. Year-end Most people will feel like saying good-bye to 1931 without regret. It is a@ parting guest gladly speeded. Everybody is saying that the end of the year is a time for “forgetting the things that are behind.” But even while turning a hopeful face to the future, as we all should do today and tomorrow, we cannot be unmindful of what the recent past has taught us. Certainly the country has not been so dull a scholar as not to have learned many things in the “dear school” of experience. Fundamental truths in economics and*some elemen- tary principles in politics have been taught with such force, with such In reality they contribute In before us we surely shall into @ strengthening of confidence as the insensate and i see gigantic blunders of the past. This and take workers with them. Either, that or man heads for extinction. The electric clock winds up the ancient gag about the heir who in- herited a hundred clocks and is winding up the estate. Keepers at Sing Sing, it is reported, have vetoed the motion of the con- vict athletic association to take up pole vaulting and high jumping. Our hunting season is a puzzle to Mexicans. So much shooting with- out electing @ president. As the late Bert Williams used to say, President Hoover is treating the Navy League with silent contempt, Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribu: policies. Politicians Try a New One (Duluth Herald) Wisconsin has for so long been a sort,of laboratory for political experi- ments that the unusual is expected, but the amazing farm subsidy bill passed by the legislative assembly this week by an overwhelming maj- ority make even the radical gasp. Under its beneficent terms every cost of production, for everything raised by him. to be computed by the state depart- hour for an eight-hour day, wita time and a half for overtime. It wili continue in effect until December 31, 1933, unless before then prices of farm. Products equal or exceed costs of pro- duction. Estimates of what the subsidy would do to the taxpayers varied greatly, but Speaker Charles Perry warned that it would cost two hundred and fifty million dollars to three hundred and fifty millions a year. “Where,” exclaimed Assemblyman Joseph Westlund of Superior in the preliminary debate, “is the money coming from?” “From the state's general fund,” ex- plained the father of the measure. “Oh,” Mr. Westlund is reported to! have said—or it may have been “ouch.” Anyway, estimating the expense is ® speculative detail. There is said to be no chance that the senate will pass the measure, and most of the assemblymen probably understood the twelvemonth| that before voting for it. That as- be cautious surance permitted them to make a what we now] enerous gesture for their farmer constituents without risking anything —except possibly their reputation for common sense, certainty is among the guarantees of |/ tion has been ahead of the 1930 volume. Several inferences are possible. Late models may be getting fewer farmer in the state is guaranteed a minimum price, at least equal to the Production costs are ment of agriculture at 30 cents an The Modern Balance of Power! with Gilbert Swan Ss New York, Dec. 29.—A fever of gambling, marked by unfamiliar and sinister symptoms, is becoming epi- demic in New York. Sharpers have reappeared, as if out of a magician’s trunk; “tin- horns,” who seemed to have vanished into the past, are back again. Some of them have long been “handy with the dice,” thanks to years of training in the airless, half- lit “traveling games” of Broadway. And backgammon is a game in which dice play a prominent part. “Trick” and “slick” throwing are factors in the seemingly polite backgammon games. Just a few weeks ago it became to get out of the head is youth’s in-|,nown that a certain slicker had been | racket, flated conception of the possibilities|operating in the ritzy speakeasies and | private clubs. One victim was re- ported to have dropped $25,000 in a single evening of play; was tipped off to the trickery and had time to cancel the huge check he had written. His information, it was said, came from several others who had taken it on the chin—and for big sums. * % * Backgammon and contract are fa- vorites—with contract hitting all classes. But such good old parlor games as parchesi and lotto have been brought up to date and now have a “money angle.” A recent arrival in gamedom, Camelot, has been given a twist that allows gambling. The cigar stores and novelty shops are loaded with miniature roulette wheels for home use, priced at 49 and 59 cents. A mechanical poker game; a race track game and a dozen others flood the market—each offering an opportunity for betting! x % * It's all a hang-over from those hectic Wall Street days when 12,000,- 000 shares were being traded, they'll tell you. From margin checks to big league brokers, the gaming spirit is ‘still in the blood—so you'll hear. And you'll hear some folks say that the depression has something to do with it. Thousands of those who lived in the middle-ground of wealth and whose incomes have been sliced, are trusting to chance to increase their income. They tilted their scale of living when things were good and now take desperate measures to keep up their bluff. Practically every swanky speakeasy has a backgammon crowd. During the afternoon hours I’ve noticed scores of smartly-clad young women playing for high stakes while sipping cocktails. One particularly classy oasis has half a floor devoted to back- gammon and bridge; another operates @ roulette game on a secret top floor. dice | @ As for contract bridge, it’s every- where. So-called bridge clubs have spawned rapidly in those mid-town hotels where dozens of mezzanine suites were gathering cobwebs. There | are said to be thousands of these in apartment houses and private homes. In fact, the contract fever has solved the hard times problems of innum- erable matrons who happen to be Smart organizers. The players are charged $1 an afternoon or evening of \bridge at the club. and 20 tables are going full blast. Fig- lure it out: $20 to $40 per sitting and $40 to $80 for afternoon or evening | sessions. Where a hotel is used, a} jeut of 75 cents per table goes to the| jhouse. With a 20 to 40 table crowd out, the hotel managers to get a fair percentage out of rooms that had ‘been going begging. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) | i{ BARBS | OO Whether Japan is muscling in on ‘Manchuria, or China's muscling out lisn’t clear. In any case it’s an awful * Oe * Japanese statesmen say that Jap- Japanese Commander | ‘ Associated Pr Field Marshal Prince Kotohito Kanin (abov Insman of Emperor | Hirohito, is the new chief of tho | general staff of the Japarese army. | STICKERS AAAAAEEEIOOO WOE NAAR TITVYY. Can you arrange the above letters to form a well-known proverb? al jan’s action in| Manchuria, far from | harming the Chinese, is helping them. Yes, sort of filling in the Chinks. +k O® Japan’s sort of put the league on be the spot. In fact, Japan doesn’t care if there's 20,000 leagues under the sea. * ee TODAY Se TQDe ANCHEeAay ACTION IN PALESTINE On Dec. 29, 1917, British forces drove the Turk back two miles on a 13-mile front north of Jerusalem and captured five towns. Towns captured by the British were: Rag Arkus, Es Suffa, Anataerram, Kulundia, and Beitunia. General Allenby advanced his Brit- ish-Egyptian army, supported by And, bated or not, there’s many a diplomatic fish in the Pacific, each with his own line. BEGIN HERE TODAY lawyer, for e are exe! tock m1 KARL DE ARMOUNT. They m him on the atreet next day he speaks to them. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI fce cre:m?” Mary-Frances. He took hold of her small, sharp elbow to guide her across the street. Ermintrude trotted along slightly in the rear. The trio paused mid- way in the intersection to allow a trundling furniture van to pass. “I,” gasped Ermintrude, unheard, “I got to go home.” Perjured, she turned and fled, Mary-Frances, eteered by Mr, De- Armount, -proceeded across the street. They had reached the bule of Blandsen’s Drug Store 26 fore Ermintrude was missed, and then {t was Mr. DeArmount who tn- quired, “Say—where’s the other one? -What’s became"—Mr. De Armount ever felt but slight obll- gations toward his verbs—“of your girl friend?” “Her?” said Mary-Frances, and searched space bewilderingly empty of Ermintrude. “I'll bet.” said Mary- Frances, her woman’s wits instantly sharpened by necessity, “that she Just happ-.wed to think of another engagement some place else.” They went into the drug store, past the counter, and back to one of the round tables in the cool- scented gloominess of the room. .Earl DeArmount looked again at Mary-Frances, reconstructed hastily some previously formed opinions, and ordered a small coke lemon flavoring. “A banana special.” = Mary- Frances pushed the words through the cramp in her throat. “Well,” said -Mr. DeArmount, “this is sure fine.” “Yes,” said Mary-Frances. “How about going to the dance tonight after the show at the I. 0. Hall?” he suggested. “Oh, I couldn't!” said Mary- Frances, and all the shock of it was in the saying. * “What's the matter? You dance, don't you?” “Some. We have classical danc- ing at school. I did the solo dance in parents’ assembly last month.” “What's the matter, then? Why won't you go to the dance with me?” “My sisters—none of my family ‘would let me,” ry be gaged to PHILIP ECROYD, young enrn. yp apepeende not amusement, filcked for an instant across Mr LeArmount'’s face.- “Well,” he said, “that’s sure fine. How about some “Yes, thank you very much,” said French, Italian and Arab auxiliaries, against the increasing resistance of the Turk. Between the time of the loss of Jerusalem and the Turks’ retreat along the Jericho and Naballa Roads, a dozen miles beyond the Holy City, the Turk suffered heavy losses in killed and wounded. By Dec. 29, 1917, all Belgium and northern France were under deep snow with the thermometer consider- ably below the freezing point. It was in this weather that the winter cam- paigns got under way. i seas Soaerensente ene” t Quotations | ing Capone for not paying income tax was a miscarri of jus- tice. It is against public policy to share in the gains of illegal profit— Edgar Wallace, British mystery writ- er. * He % I advise my son when he grows up to look around for the worst business and to remember that it is bad be- cause it is run by dubs.—Lincoln Stef- fens, journalist and original ‘“muck- raker.” * T never let my husband know what money I have. I like to have a little that nobody knows about.—Lady As- tor, American-born member of Par- lament. ee & In Italy’ the signs say: “Passegiatta e proibito”; in France, “C’est de- fendu”; in Erigland, “Trespassers will ited.” But here (in Amer- ica) the signs say, “Please give the grass a chance.” Beautifull Beauti- ful!—Foreign Minister Grandi of Italy. ee % ‘We have had to shoulder the war Frequently 10/ (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) |debts—because we borrowed and still KINDS “Cripes! Do you have to ask your folks ever’ time you turn around—er— Say, I don’t belicve I know your name.” eee SPRANEIE,” said Magy-Frances, “Frankie Fenwick.” It was her opinion that Mary-Frances was a dumbbell name, but that Frankie, lke Billie and Teddy, for girls, was subtle, daring, original, and charm- ing. He asked, “How'd you spell it?” Mary-Frances spelled it. “Oh, Fenwick,” he said, as if Mary-Frances had mispronounced it ths first time. “There's a street of the same name:back there, isn't there?” “Yes,” said Mary-Frances simply. She had her prides, but this was not one -f£ them. “Fenwick avenue. It was named for Grand—my grand- father, you know. His estate was the first one on the avenue, so that’s why they named it for him, 1 suppose.” “Estate?” open awe. “It’s only a block,” said Mary- France&. “We still live there in the Fenwick Mansion—it is awfully old now.” 4 “Aw,” he said. “Go on. you're stringing me.” Her “Honestly and truly I’m not” convinced Earl DeArmount, expert- enced skeptic that he was, of her truthfulness. “Well, I'll be,” he said, and looked again at Mary- Frances, and did some more recon- structing, and finished, “shot. Well, I'll be shot,” repeated Mr. DeAr- mount, They parted, but not forever, out- sidp the drug store at five o'clock. She had agreed to meet him that night, as close to 10:30 as he could make {t, under the big walnut tree in the yard—the one cater-corners from the Carmichaels’ house, where Fenwick avenue joined Chestnut street. There could be no harm, he had. urged, in getting better ac- quainted. he questioned, with Tl bet eee A’ Ann put on her coat in the washroom at the rear of the office the day behind her was a long tired disappointment, and the empty evening stretched ahead paralleled with a frightened won- dering as to whether or uot she might hear from Phil, And yet, when the telephone bell rang, just @ was opening the front door By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Joyrnal of the American Med- ical Association. . Not long ago people throughout the country were aroused by an epidemic of parrot fever, scientifically called “psittacosis.” This disease is trans- mitted by birds, particularly parrots, but also by parrakeets, love birds, and canaries. A bird that is apparently well may transmit the infection, but in most instances the parrot will seem to be ill, and it is the attempted care of @ very fond owner that usually re- sults in the owner acquiring the in- fection from the bird. It takes from six to 15 days after contact with the source of the infec- tion for the disease to develop in a human being. The disease begins with a chilly sensation, fever, head- ache, and early involvement of the AY_CLEAVER ANNE, CECILY an@ MARY- “e FRANCES FENWICK live with i ie lungs. The tongue has a white coat, there is loss of appetite, and the pulse is usually low in relationship to the height of the fever. Sometimes the onset of the disease is so rapid and the toxemia so great that the person develops a delirium. * Oe * People of any age may develop this disease, but, most of the cases seem to have occurred in older people, prob- ably because children pay little atten- tion to a sick parrot, whereas their Parents and older people show the type of solicitude that has been men- tioned. For the same reason women have the disease much more frequent- ly than do men, except in laboratories where investigation of the disease is being carried on and where the labor- atory workers come down with it. As has been said, an apparently healthy bird can transmit the disease to a human being, but there is no evi- owe every dollar we loaned Europe.— nator R. B. Howell of Nebraska. * * * The supreme cause of our confusion is our contemptuous dismissal of chee Charles A. Beard, histor- lan, And while all these negotiations are going on; Marchuria waits with bated breath. Well, she’s sure to catch what| Sherman said war was. Daily Health Service Parrot Fever Often Spread By Apparently Healthy Birds Infected Birds Should Be Sacrificed for Protection dence that one human being transmit the disease to another. The control of parrot fver involves the prohibition of traffic in South American parrots, the guarding of homes aud pet shops known to have harbored infected birds, until these have been thorough- ly cleaned and disinfected. * OK The only specific treatment known to medical science is the injection of blood of the person who has recovered from the disease, but even this meth- od of treatment is in an experimental stage. Otherwise, the patient is given Proper food and nursing care, and is carefully watched for the development of complications. Regardless of the love or the at- tachment of the owner to the bird, any bird which is shown to be infected should be sacrificed, and not only the bird, but the cage and any other ma- terials which have come in contact with the bird should be burned. If the shoe fits—most women think it’s too large. —— i _ — —— ~ = “A banana special.” Mary-Frances pushed the words through the cramp in her throat. ~ to start for home, and she was greeted by Phil's voice, pleasant and sure, she was aware only of irritation and a dismaying petu- lance, “Ann, he said, “it is spring.” She answered stupidly, “It 1s?" and thought that it also was after five o'clock, and that if the bill collector had not come in she wouldn't be in the office to receive this news. Phil bad a plan. The car was in running order again; he thought he might stop in town and get two of those box lunches, and then come for Ann, and he and she would drive out somewhere into the coun- try, and find some woods and a stream, and eat their suppers to- gether out there all alone uncer the trees. “You know I can’t, Phil,” Ann said. “This is my week to get din- ner and do the evening work, and 1 have to go home and do it.” “I thought,” he explained, “that Cecily might be a good sport this once and let you off. It is a grand day. I'm wild to get out of the city and into the woods.” “Cecily is always a good sport,” Ann returned. “But it happens that she just called me and told me that she is going out somewhere into the country for dinner with Barry McKeel.” “Oh, the wi:d Irishman again? He is giving her a rush, fsn’t he?” “I shouldn't call him ‘wild, ex- actly,” said Ann, “Cissy has every right to go—it is her week.” He said, “Surely. Of course.” “Last week,” Ann suggested, “was my week.” “But last week,” Phil reminded her, “it rained all week.” Ann said, “That wasn’t my dear,” fauit.”’ Phil safd nothing, and one of those taut silences that come) occasionally into telephone conver- sations began and.extended absurd- ly until Phil snapped it with a “Well, then” that was frightening with finality. “He can’t,” Ann thought wildly, “say goodby.and hang up when nothing else has been satd. I can’t ‘say, ‘I'll see you after dinner, won't 1” Why can’t I? 1 often do. I don’t know. Today I can’t.” But she did say it; and, “Well, that’s the trouble,” Phil began, as she had known intuitively, without either precedent or reason, that he would begin. No safe, satisfactory, “Yes, of course." No happy, thrill- ing, “Well, indeed you will.” @ 93h by ibleday, Doran and Co. No, “May I?” precious because of its humility and eagerness. It had been years since Phil had produced a “May 12” entirely satisfactorily. He had a client.to see at eight o'clock. He had thought that he and Ann might have their picnic supper in the woods, and that he would have time to take her home before he went on to keep his en- gagement. “I see,” said Ann. “What's the matter?” said Phil, “Nothing,” said Ann, “I suppose you think I shouldn't keep my engagement with my client?” “No, I don’t,” Ann said, the hint of anger almost hidden under the weariness. “When did I ever think you should break a professional en- gagement?” “Well, then,” ho said, and it was coming now and she could not stop it, “goodby.” If only he wouldn't top it off with one of those silly, outworn cliches of ‘his. “Meet you at the merry-go-round,” said Phil, It was his thesis that humor and love could not be divorced. peur hung up the telephone re- ceiver, and pounded the thing down on his desk, and said, “Damn!” He hated to lie—he was certain of that—and he felt bitter and ugly toward Ann because she had forced him to do so. Some where, he, thought, there must be women in the world whom men could not “hurt.” Women to whom @ man could say honestly, “I'd like to have you go with me out into the country this evening; but, since you can't (or won't), I am going alone. I happen, just’ now, to pre fer the woods to your company.” It was, he further reflected, his fault, possibly, that Ann was in- capable of receiving bis candors. He had pampered her too often, ca- tered too long to those tender feel- ings of hers; bad been too ready, always, with excuses, explanations, apologies, She was angry this eve ning because he had waited until Tate to telephone to her. Why couldn’t she gently know, -as. she had used to know—or had she, ever?—that he had always excel- lent reason for everything, that he was never unjust nor careless? To- day he had been very busy, and then he had waited to find whether or not the car would be available before he made plans, Tee. (To Be Continued) 4 oak