The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 4

7 -TASaKeentoD eR eRe ee 2 QSTISSOND HEY YY OH ow The e Bismarck Tribune yi An Independent Newspaper IR THE STATE'S OLDEST # NEWSPAPER Se (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune ‘Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as s¢tond 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 Daily by mail per year (in state Outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ........ seeeeeeee ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years I ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year . 1.50 ‘Weekly by mail in Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published here- in. 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 The Eastern War Peril Six months ago anyone who sug- gested that there was any serious danger of the United States getting into a war in the Far East would have been looked upon, quite properly, as a scatter-brained alarmist. Today he would simply be considered a thought- {ful student of international affairs. ‘Thus far have the international ef- fects of Japan's adventure in Man- churia progressed — proving, once more, that things happening in out- Jandishly named places beyond the eas can touch our lives more directly 00} "hich George Washington wrote to 2.30 der-in-chief of the Revolutionary Jects—such, for instance, as lamp posts—also increased materially, ‘This makes extremely unpleasant reading. It indicates that the aver- age motorist must realize more clearly| - than ever before the exact nature of the responsibility that rests on his shoulders when he starts out for a drive. It indicates that state and municipal supervision of driving is not nearly stringent enough. It indi- cates, in fact, that we still fail to ap- preciate the great seriousness of our automobile traffic death problem. Washington’s Sacrifices ‘The Golden Book magazine, in its current issue, reprints the letters Martha Washington when the Conti- nental Congress made him comman- armies; and it is extremely interest- ing to ndtice that the step filled him with “inexpressible concern,” so that he wrote his wife that “I should en- joy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad.” ‘That sticks in one’s mind, not only because it shows just how the man felt about the responsibility that was given him, but also because it proves, once more, that the man to whom a great job is given is not, usually, able to concern himself with his private happiness. Washington had to sacrifice much to fight and win the Revolution. He won immortality, but he gave up things for which his country, grate- ful as it might be, could never repay him. Legislative Apathy State legislatures, being dominated by lawyers, are apathetic toward pro- posals for the improvement of crimi- nal procedure and seldom display any interest in projects for removing the technicalities and delays from the path of justice, says George W. Wick- ersham, chairman of President Hoo- ver's law enforcement commission. Wickersham, who made this state- ment at a meeting of the American Law Institute in Chicago the other day, intimated that this apathy might than we usually imagine. Of course, no one in this country wants a war—no one, that is, except possibly a handful of empty-Readed Jingoes. Probably there never was a time when the sentiment of the na- tion was more thoroughly inclined toward keeping the peace. And it seems quite certain that the nation can avoid a war if it wants to. But it is imperative for us to rec- ognize, right now, that the situation is serious. If we make ourselves look at the fact that war is possible, we can unite to make it impossible. If we drift. along in fancied security, telling ourselves that the turmoil in the Orient can’t really mean any- thing especial to us, we might find ourselves in the rapids before we knew it. Once the chance of war turns from @ remote possibility to an immediate probability, it is too late to do any- thing about it. The man who tries to speak for peace can’t get a hear- ing. The time to work for peace is now, When the danger is only a small cloud on the horizon—remote, hardly noticeable, but definitely ominous. Meanwhile, we need to recognize the fact that the government at ‘Washington is faced with an ex- tremely tough problem. President Hoover knows, as well as any man alive, what a frightful thing war is. He can be depended on to chart a course to lead the nation away from it. In doing so, he deserves the whole-hearted support of all citizens. The president also must recognize the duty which is imposed upon him to see that the United States is ade- quately protected. Even while we Jong for peace we must remember that, if we were as defenseless as China, the Japanese fleet might to- day be hammering at the portals of Seattle or San Francisco. A New Traffic Problem Among the many improvements that automobile manufacturers have built into cars in the last few years is higher speed capacity. Rapid ac- celeration is the rule, now; so is the ability to cruise along an open road at @ mile-a-minute clip without suf- fering from excessive noise and vi- bration. But all of this, evidently, has been @ gift to motorists who aren’t ready for it yet. Our automobiles do their arise because so many of the lawyer} Politicians have extensive practices in the criminal courts and find all of these technicalities very helpful to! them. This is something that the ordinary layman has often suspected; not often, however, does the charge come from so eminent an authority. It is @ matter that the American Bar as- sociation and its subsidiary bodies ought to consider very earnestly and carefully. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without rega: to whether they agr with The Tribun r disagree policies. Baker and the League (Grand Forks Herald) Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson cabinet, and a possible Democratic candidate for president, is opposed to the inclusion in the Democratic platform of a plank fa- voring American membership in the League of Nations. Yet Mr. Baker is in favor of American membership in the League, and he believes that it will be brought about, To some observers this attitude will seem contradictory, and to some ad- vocates of League membership it will be disappointing. Yet it is not con- tradictory, and it need cause no dis- appointment. It is rather indicative of clarity of thought such as does not always characterize ardent sup- Porters of particular public policies. There is no prospect that member- ship in the League of Nations will be Presented as an issue for immediate determination at any time in the near future. That the League will endure there is no reason to doubt, for it is the only agency through which world opinion can be brought to bear upon any current problem. There is every reason to believe, also, that the United States will ultimately become &@ member of the League, for it is un- thinkable that one of the world’s three or four great powers should re- main always outside an organization through which alone the nations can cooperate for the maintenance of Peace and the promotion of human welfare. Under these circumstances a dec- lJaration now with reference to the League would be only a gesture, re- sulting in no immediate action, and doubtful value in influencing the na- tion’s course at any other time. There are other problems now before the country which are pressing. Some of them are of a domestic nature and job better than we do ours. We aren’t, on the whole, quite fit to be trusted with fast cars. This becomes evident from figures on auto accidents recently compiled by the Travelers Insurance company. In 1931 automobile registrations in the United States declined by about | 9, 2 per cent. The number of traffic accidents also fell off. Yet the num- ber of traffic deaths increased by more than 3 per cent, and the num- ber of severe but non-fatal injuries increased even more. ‘The insurance company’s investi- gators conclude that increased speed ‘was the factor chiefly responsible. It is hard to disagree with them. some affect our foreign relations. Consideration of congress and of the country is certain to be given to these problems in preference to any others. Injection of the League issue now would be confusing rather than con- structive. ‘Without any commitments on the Part of the American government and without action by congress, force of inces draws the United States into closer and closer coopera- tion with the League. At any time our government was so touchy on the subject that it did not recognize the existence of the League, even in cor- respondence. Then we began to par- ticipate guardedly in the technical and social activities of the League. ‘We have progressed from that stage until at present we are consulting fteely with the League on matters in- volving questions of war and peace, and the heavens have not yet fallen. If League membership is continu- platform declarations the whole sub- Ject will be kept in controversy. It likely that will come a Well, This Is Leap Year, You Know! holy New York, Feb. 15.—The sign reads: “If you haven't got a friend any- where in the world, you have one here!” And it hangs outside the famous Chinatown mission. These sharp nights derelicts, who seemed to have been cast up by some tidal wave from the river into the “Five Corners,” are less interested in a friend than they are in warmth and food. Later they hear about that “one friend” in the gospel mission, although salvation is not forced down their throats. Soup or hot coffee first—then small doses of the gospel. By this time the cold, discouraged crowds are more inclined to believe in “a friend.” This is the little harbor furnished by Tom Noonan, “the bishop of Chinatown.” Noonan knows his Bow- ery. He should, since he’s been there these many eyars. One of the town's characters, Noonan has become na- tionally known through his broad- casts. Never impatient. Never tiring. This is humanity, after all. Humanity at its fag end! How to bring them back? How to redeem them—in spirit and in soul? x * Outside, Chinese seem to patter from shop to shop; from cellar to cellar. It's cold—yet few are wear- ing overcoats! Wonder why? And wonder why, also, there is no Chi- nese breadline? They must have some smart way of taking care of their poor. Or have they no poor? Peep in the restaurants and they seem to be eating! ... They are con- tent with rice, . No vile, poison- STIC KEBS ip ally made the subject of political ous “smoke” is drunk by them... . They are said to be content with lit- tle and to have an older philosophy of life. What do these hundreds of hungry, dissolute white men want from life? ‘What have they left behind? Shadows turn into the midnight black. The last tourist bus comes and goes. Behind black doorways and half- lit windows, Chinatown prepares for the feast of lanterns. “Yeah—everything will be quiet here during the feast of lanterns,” says the cop. “After that, look out. There’s trouble been in the air for quite a while. Nothing will happen until the holiday is over. They're funny that way. They almost never break the holiday pledge. Kind of, sportsmanlike.” * # * ‘Windows hung with slimy sections’ of cuttlefish ... with dried abalone and other foods unfamiliar to the western eye... . Tourists look and one shudders. . “Don’t they eat the darndest things?” asks one. Two blocks away, where cheap res- taurants flourish and odd odors ex- ude from hamburger counters, a Chinaman stops and looks. He seems to be asking himself the same ques- tion. A lad, driving a taxi, stops and hesitates. the “soup” line. The “regulars” scowl. Whats’ this fellow with a job doing there? “Had only two customers tonight,” he explains. “That means I get let off when I turn in. Might as well drive here while I got a cab—mightn’t I? Else I'd have to pay my own fare FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: pulls up, Then he joins Leap Year is no time to fall for an aviator. down. Now I can pretend I was look- ing for trade.” His explanation goes unchallenged. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Barbs > | Mesnil. Admiral Byrd plans to build an Antarctic city 500 miles nearer the pole than Little America. Just the} Place for the Amierican people to ‘warm up to the debt cancellation x tt ‘Yet, industrial leaders say business has scraped bottom and now is ready for a rise. Of course it may dig in @ little. # # # An insurance executive says best help for the unemployed is self- help. He would probably throw a drowning man a on how to * Philadelphia. may abolish movie censots. Despite high advertising henceforth colorful shows will * * About the only thing they haven't on the 1932 automobiles is back seat driver. **e * It's open to debate whether it’s more dangerous to allow your wife to drive your car, or to refuse to let her. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) es oan wal Daily Health Service A New Scientific Discoveries Not Always 2 Beneficial ; Much Harm Caused by Thallium Poisoning By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association The new discoveries of science are not always unmitigated benefits to the human race. Only a few years have passed since modern chemistry discovered an element called thal- lium. It was found to be related in its action to the action of lead and of arsenic. Among the first uses to which the product was put was mix it with various grains and other substances in the form of s paste which permitted its sale as a rat poison. Its special value as @ poison was due to the fact that it would not warn @ rat away by any special odor or taste. It would severely depress the heart and injure the nervous system and thus produce death. The very factors which made it ‘useful as a rat.poison dangerous to human beings, and | mi particularly to children. Some time after the product was first intro- to have the special virtue of causing the hair to fall out. Great numbers of people are sorrowful because they have hair on parts of: their body where it should not be and because constant shaving and the application of various caustic substances are an- noying. __Purthermore, there are diseases of fever it is sold. | there are diseases of ANI + VERNON CASTLE KILLED On Feb. 15, 1918, Captain Vernon Castle, famous dancer and a Tote trained flier, was killed when Plane crashed near Fort Worth, Tex. . With his wife, the then Irene Cas- tle, Captain Castle had been inter- nationally famous for his dancing, and went intp the air corps at the outbreak of the war. President Wilson placed an embar- go on all cargo space to insure trans- port of troops and war material. American gunners aided French ‘| troops in a raid in the Champagne geet between Tahure and — de ‘Trotzky formally declared Russia's withdrawal from the war. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Ny T'm tired of this business (anarch- ism).—Premier Azana of Spain. Bev ae We look for improvement in 60 to 90 days.—H. H. Brown, vice president Great sl casi Lopnchab * ‘You can say, ioral that I didn’t buy a silk hat.—Huey P. Long, gover- nor and senator-elect he Louisiana. * * Not counting dogs, I been in loff three times—Pola Negri, movie star. * oe Amhericans Go not understand be- BEGIN HERE TODAY jeautiful ELLEN ROSSITE! orks by day as leagt fo work at wight « hostess antil ¢ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER Ill ) Descemaal had her feet planted firm- ly in her small world by the time she had seated herself. She had seen other girls pay the swift Denalty for some inconsequential fault. She was prepared to pay It herself in dignity and in pride. She thought dimly that the important thing was to maintain; her own courage, Never before had she exchanged a word with her employer. In her six years of service she had seen him no more than ‘half s dozen times. Steven Barclay spent only two or three months a year in the store which bore his name; the other months he wandered restless- ly about Europe adding to bis col- lection of jades, But Ellen bad as- sumed, as her working mates had assumed, that he was responsible for the strictness of the store, the countless, fretting rules, the rigid discipline, She had youthfully hated him for that, he began almost’ apolo- getically, “that you won't think I'm {nterfering in something which does not concern me. I am, of course, But perhaps you'll forgive me when I tell you that I can not bear to see an employe—to seo someone so young as you are—in * such trouble without attempting to learn if there is something 1 can do. Some way that I can help.” Ellen had been prepared for dis- missal. She was not prepared for sympathy. For a moment revulsion of feeling made her actually dizzy. Her heart was suffocating her and she felt she could hardly breathe. Bat ghe forced herself to answer im. “It's—it’s nothing important, she managed at length. “I was afraid you'd say that. It probably would be nothing to me, Obviously it’s not that to you. But I do think it’s nothing that can’t be solved, Won't you tell me?” eee At™ any other time Bilen would have withdrawn into the fast- nesses cf the Rossiter pride. Just then she had such an overwhelm. ing need for sympathy, such an overwhelming need for the advice of someone older, someone sible, that the whole story was out betore she could check the rust of words, beh and-Bert; her tyes and her di shopping tours: Mike, delightful baby Mike, wh who should have his chance; the Brook: lyn apartment and the countless, harassing worrles that beset two girls trying to balance on their slim shoulders the burden of @ family, all that and more she poured forth. She stopped at last in consterna- tion, What had she said, lured by this man’s intent interest? What had possessed her? “So you see it’s really nothing,” she concluded stiffly. “Only the lack of an evening dress. I'm afraid I’ve drawn a dreadful picture. It's not a fair or truthful one, We have lots of fun. We love each other. Anyone would say that an evening dress wasn’t important.” “I wasn't going to say that.” “No, I wasn't going to say that,” he repeated. “I was going to tell you something about myself, some- thing that might help you, or I hope it will, Are you bored?” Ellen quickly assured him she was not. She felt again and un- willingly his quiet spel, felt his lack of condescension, his simple assumption that they were equals and, as equals, could solve her prob- lem. But how? What pomible help could she accept from bint po ag on gy Se man,” be was éaying, “Think of me as I was at your age, trying to support a young ‘wife and a young baby on $15 3 week in the days when $15 8 week meant more than it does now but not enough more. My wife wanted a dress too. She wanted a pink dress with ribbons. She looked a little like you, had that same quick way of turning her head. And they were wearing pink and ribbons when she wanted the Gress.” ’ eee Eten forgot Jenny Elkins in the basement. She had not known that Barclay had been poor. It was bard to imagine that distinguished, ‘graying man who wore clothes so 3 earetully cut, so indicative of wealth, in such a role, But sho|Then Could visualize clearly the young wite who had wanted s pink Taree with pink ribbons, “No one offered to give her that dregs,” Barclay continued, “It any: duced as a rat poison, it was found | physic the scalp, pa! particularly in children, in. which the first process in treatment is to cause all of the hair to fall’ as so that the disease may be reachea. ace therefore, began to wse the drug both internally oa exter- nally in a to cream to produce falling of the Occasionally reports appeated of thallium poisoning in children who had received overdoses. Then nu- ‘merous reports were received of seri- ous , though not fatal, from the use of depilatory creams contain- ing this substance. Now newspapers record the death in California of four Mexican children and serious poison- = ‘of two other Mexican children It Mexicans from eating and five rant iaized Witt um chloride in order that it might be used as ® rat poison. The starving Mexicans who were con- made |cerned in this serious incident had ee tortillas out of the grain. is unfortunately no age antidote for thallium poisoning. The may administer sodium thi- osulphate, which is found to be ef- fective to some extent in poisoning by arsenic, and he may use all of the usual measures for supporting life while the body tries to overcome disease. Certainly thallium is suffi- ciently dangerous to demand & warn- ing poison label on the product when- ever it is sold. cian called uj to forgive their debts. yy, |e Powell, president American Chamber of bea in London. I want the Democratic party to be conspicuous in avoiding discussion about mere personalities—Newton D. Baker, So ee: * America is not.a democracy, but a group of adolescent dictatorships— John Langdon-Davies, British author and oy He (Mr. Hoover) has made @ rec- ord in presidential initiative andcon- structive accomplishment unparal- leled in the economic history of this nation or any other—Charles G. ‘Dawes. Use the Want Ads she softened it with a glance of shy merriment. ‘The man considered a moment. His face cleared and when he smiled so many years dropped away from him that Ellen felt he must look almost as he had looked to his young wife. She had thought him handsome end distinguished before but separated from her by miles of spiritual distance, sepa- rated from her by many years and by great wealth. For the first time she saw him not as her employer but as a man. / “Well, if you won't, you won't!” he said decisively. “It may be that young girls should be suspicious of ‘}older men bearing gifts—I don’t She knew she had found her dress. one had I'm sure we both would have refused it. We were proud, you understand—proud as you are proud. I was going to become a rich man—going to buy her dozens upon dozens of dresses.” He hesi- tated and added almost roughly, “She was dead—dead with my young son before she ever had a pink dress.” Ellen gave a distressed little cry. “We had fun too,” he told her. “Much the same sort of fun you and your brother, Mike, and your sister, Myra, are having now. But) if we'd only been I f-necked, less afratd of the motives of other, people, how much easier it would’ have been.” “Afraid?” The heavy Rossiter brows rose in twin peaks, “Young people haven't changed much in spite of all thé shouting,” Barclay observed obliquely. “They're| ‘still afraid, aren't they, to accept a favor to do a greater favor? They're just as suspicious, just as conven. tional and every bit as proud. You, T’'m sure, would never allow me to give you a lift, You wouldo’t al-| low me, would you, to give you one dress from a store which has hui-| Bll dreds of them? You'd rather bi your troubles to yourself, yourself sick, wouldn't you? You'd rather be selfish.” “I'm afratd I would,” Ellen ad- mitted, made one more attempt. “You know, of course, that you sre depriving me of a great pless- ahh Are you sure you have that Ellen felt confused. Was tt pos sible that she was too as he had accused her of ah, Ae too careful satires? she decided, so Leg that there was almost fore she answered, that e rm vite er it was too late to ch: “Vim oura T bave thet right” she said. Her tone was Tesolute but know. But I've thought of a com- promise. Surely you can’t refuse to borrow a dress. “Borrow a dress!” “Certainly. Don't look so as- tounded. We seldom sell the gowns that the models wear. You'll bor- Tow one of them and return it when your engagement is over.” eee ([AkING her consent for granted, he turned at once to ring a bell. Ellen had neither the heart nor the wish to demur. Indeed, she felt her spirits rising. By so simple an act as ringing a bell, Steven Barclay had settled the problem of where the Rossiter rent was to come from, With the help of a borrowed dress it was coming from Dreamland. A few minutes later 3 saleswoman arrived with a lovely cargo of eve- ning dresses. Steven Barclay had slipped away. Ellen was alone in the office. She appreciated the de Dartment store owner's tact and his wisdom. Barclay’s was notoriously & hotbed of gossip. The tiniest in- fangs pac involved Steven was always of abnormal inte: his Se hefara Fortunately the saleswoman who brought the sida was placidly incurious, next 15 minutes wer heaven for Ellen. She hed. sine Feelcad evening gown, evening ing one of the items in. rariabir-mitstag from Aunt Myra's She had not known it would eas such fun to select a gown only because it made her beautiful, She stood before a long mi; and held up before herself, ane | ty one, gowns that she was convinced Were the loveliest in the world, It $vas pure bliss to see that, although line and color seemed almost to change her personality as they did change her appearance, not even the trying burnt orange or the deep sees cout alg the triumphant er clear skin ber bright peal i ote When s! n the ivory taffeta, at she kee ae tad found her dress. It did not make bér an ingenue; It did not make her a duchess. It did Rot make her mysterious. It only made ber len Rossiter, & girl of 20, clear. Mondar peegestlaneS, «tel with- p|Slender hands and lender feet, peste but more than that, « 1 who was genuine and secu: her own personality. oe ‘s ite tatets falling” mt it had been tig ta eee Sonturter who creation “Jeyne Fille.” Bare! too} Ber a: fata: “I'm glad you selected that w with a ‘k, halt of tear and halt of strange pride, that life was suddenly becoming exciting. (To Be Continued)