The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1932, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON “ The Nation Will Applaud Americans of all classes throughout @the nation will applaud President Hoover's suggestion for revision of the federal government in order that economy and efficiency may be pro- fg Moted. ‘The field into which the chief ex- st Coutive puts the plow of thought is a difertile one and assiduous tilling teshould bring real benefits to every citizen. It is to be hoped that con- Gress will assist in the effort. If carried out on the basis and in Pithe spirit in which the president seems to propose it, the shake-up will gemean lasting benefit to the country. arOur government is a thing which has been growing through the years and is mow far more cumbersome and in- mefficient than the founders of the na- tion ever intended it to be. Red tape Sfand inefficiency in Washington are beProverbial—and rightly so. e@ The boards, bureaus and other| Ptbranches of government which have {been devised to mect certain situa-| wiions have persisted long after they| athave outlived their usefulness. The ltendency has been to add to rather than to reduce. History shows that Dew jobs ever have been created by the government and later abolished —except for political reasons. The) vaxpayers have paid and paid. 4 Every American, probably, has had| m-he same thought about revising the atzovernment which President Hoover | iO,0w puts into words. Even the man/ n the street has recognized the need Der at least the desirability of this resind of action from a public stand- jq2oint. The surprising thing is that tic’ has taken this long for the idea of | re:he man in the street to permeate to ©O he seats of the nation’s mighty. ea The proposal has nothing in it of ogzenius or of that quality of high be:erebration which we have been led | Bo expect from presidents. Instead | t has much stronger virtues which | Jveryone can understand, those of “ommon sense and of decent regard ‘or the public interest. A Duty We Overlook to Police Commissioner Mulrooney of mew York, addressing an audience of | churchmen recently, expressed regret hat church and community work for doys often ends when the youngsters ‘each the age of 16, or thereabouts. “I wish,” he said, “that the thurches of all denominations would lo more to try to direct the boys pf he city to wholesale recreation. The | ‘3ey Scout troops often seem to lose | ‘he boy after he is 16, and it is then jhat he falls into bad company.” ‘ There is a whole lot of truth in “his; for the lad of 16 very often finds | jimself a misfit, and the two or ihree-year period that he begins at that age can be an extremely trying tnd dangerous time. 1 At 16 he is no longer—in his own| yes, at least—a boy; he is entering 4yanhood, and he is desperately anx- “sus to do the things that men do. tut he has not quite got there, as et. The adult world still looks on dm as an unlicked cub, and grown- ps who will treat him as a grown- p are few and far between. Bo, feeling himself lost between wo worlds, he is apt to have a rather <ard time. He starts drifting, and 29 first group that takes a real in- in him and treats him as a sore or less mature individual capa- te of making his own choice, is ‘kely to win his allegiance perma- | And it is right at this point that The | Bismarck Tribune ojbeen attained by the hue and cry 50 | the state's taxing districts only a few that children must be given a chance to get wholesome recreation. But we have not yet learned that this guid- ance must extend through the first part of young manhood. Commis- stoner Mulrooney has touched on a point that deserves a lot more thought than we have given it. The Walls of Jericho | When the Israelites marched round about the walls of Jericho and blew lustily upon their ram’s horn trum- pets, the ramparts eventually fell be- fore the blast. The same result has raised by the throng of North Da- kota taxpayers. The evidence lies in the statement of tax levies for 1932 as compiled by the state tax commissioner. Of all show increases, Of the five major classifications of tax-spending organ- izations only one, the state govern- ment, shows an increase, Officials of the towns and cities, townships, counties and school districts have taken to cover and have reduced ex- 1penses. The initial step in the fight for economy in government has been successful. The citadel of the state government will be an easy capture, for no officcholder with any sense of his own interests is going to defend the walls of the political Jericho in face of the attack which is being {made upon them by the taxpayers, Liquor and Driving One of those fine distinctions that judges occasionally can draw seems to have been produced by a New York court the other day, which held that {a man can be under the influence of liquor without being actually intoxi- cated. This ruling came in the case of a man who, having been convicted of driving his auto while under the in- fluence of liquor, was deprived of his driver's license—the official who re- voked the license having felt, appar- ently, that being under the influence jis practically the same as being in- toxicated. Now, however, the court rules that there is a distinction. And there un- doubtedly is one, too; but whether the distinction ought to be made in the case of a man behind the steer- ing wheel of an automobile may be a question. An automobile driver ought never to be anything but cold sober, A very slight alcoholic dimming of his faculties can be enough to cause a disaster. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They published without regard her they agree or disagree ith The Tribune's policies. Perey vs. Percy (Valley City Times-Record) The Times-Record publisher very vigorously protests such statements as this in The Jamestown Sun of Sat- urday afternoon: “Because most of the daily newspapers of the state are con- trolled by the same powers from whom this small group receives its orders, the latter have been enabled to get in a most deadly work and it is possible that the 25,000 people who signed the pe- titions to give the people of the state a vote on the proposed cap- ital change and the other thou- sands who would have voted for it will be defeated because of the action of these Jamestown dicta- tors.” The publisher of this paper comes under the accusation of Mr. Hansen, |of The Sun, and he knows that he is saying something that he knows to be absolutely false. Neither this | Paper or any of the state papers have been either bought or cajoled into taking whatever stand they ‘have taken in this capital removal matter, and such a charge by Mr. Hansen is neither ethical or just. We have re- frained from making any charges or insinuations, preferring to believe that the Jamestown publisher is do- ing what he is doing because he is in earnest in getting the capital to Jamestown, but now that he has come out and openly accused us along with other publishers of being led around by the nose by some group we do not even get in touch with, we are going to tell him that it is current rumor that the only thing that keeps him holding out against public sentiment is the price—and that he has his price. We are not saying that such is the case, but that is a well defined rumor going around. It is just as pertinent and just as true as is his statement that we are controlled by some group. When Bro. Hansen gets to throwing bricks he should be very careful in what direction he is heay- ing them. He is liable to get a few) bricks thrown back at him, and we} are starting in on the bombardment | right now. | We might tell our good friend at Jamestown that there are publishers —and we are one of them—that dare to have an opinion on any public question affecting the public without money and without price—and that in our years of work we have had op- portunity to gather in some gold if we chose to sell our principles for a “mess of pottage.” We have never done that. Can he say the same? | Editor's Note: The above edi- torial appeared in the Valley City New York, Feb. 18.—Henry Bache Smith, champion long distance libret- tist of the world, chuckled at the no- tion that his venerable “Robin Hood” could still pack in the Broadway crowds, Smith, now in his seventies and dwelling quietly on the fringe of Riv- erside Drive, will probably never be equaled for versatility of effort or quantity of output. ‘Who doesn’t remember “The For- tune Teller,” or “Foxy Quiller,” or “The ” “Robin Hood,” “The Spring Maid” and about a hundred or more others? All turned out by the eminent Mr. Smith! ee ollected. it. Ever hear the story of how it came to be written? “No! Well, I had been working on Chicago newspapers, doing drama and music reviews and some straight reporting. I'd gone there from my home town, which is Buffalo. Well, the Gilbert and Sullivan stuff was all the rage. And an outfit known as the Chicago Choir Company was or- ganized to do a road routine. “Reginald de Koven, the composer, Times-Record without a heading and the one given it is our »wn, inspired by the similarity of the given names of Percy R. Trub- shaw and Percy M. Hansen. We feel Trubshaw is right and that the newspapers of the state @re actuated by a sense of right and justice rather than “con- trolled” by invisible povers. It ‘of trouble that offers it- G@imcovered, in recent years, al matters are joining in the ef- fort to keep the capital here. MOST COMMON WORDS are: to, with, be, of, as, all, at, not, for and on. These words are said to comprise 25 per cent of. all the words used in the average modern book. 3 ° DON'T MONKEY WITH THE BUZZ SAW! was living in Chicago and I knew him| ‘Brown October Ale’ er one of the pretty well. I had gone out with the Chicago troupe and we were playing Minneapolis when in barged De Ko- ven, trying to sell his latest opera score. He played the score on the Piano and the managers liked it. So I happened to run into him on the street and told him I had the book} of an opera I'd like him to see. We 3 ag to walt until we got back to i. “And that’s how we first began to x * OK collaborate.” “Now we'll get around to ‘Robin Hood.’ “Eugene Field was running a col- umn on a Chicago paper—and what @ column that was. I used to see him sround the office a lot and we used to talk together about books and poems. He said that I should get a better slant on the old ballad style of writing. So he brought me a copy of the old Robin Hood ballads by! Ritson. “That gave me the big idea. Why! not a book for a music show with’ Robin Hood as the hero? So I went to work—and I had turned out the book in three weeks! It wasn’t that “We were far from certain about|I wanted to turn out a quick job. We the success of ‘Robin Hood,’” he rec-|had no choice in the matter. “The public didn’t take to/contract was just about up. We had Our to go at top speed to get our work done while the paper was still worth | something. “The Bostonians, one of the most important light opera groups of the day, weren’t particularly keen about the piece—but they put it on. And there you are, About 43 years have passed since then, and the tunes are as familiar as ever. You can’t turn on the radio program without hearing FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: _ R, FANN) AUIS other numbers,” Nor can you. ee terial. . . . He tossed over athletics for the concert stage. And John Fogarty, the Irish radio warbler, is a Wyoming lad... . The tale goes that he ran away from home at 16 to join the A. E. F. in the World war. ... When he came back he was a second leutenant.... His voice attracted attention and he’s been singing ever since. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) TODAY £3 aneiiesaby FRENCH REPULSE RAID On Feb. 18, 1918, the German ar- mies resumed operations on the Rus- sian front, crossing the Dvina river. This move came as the hour of the end of the armistice between the Central Powers and the Soviet gov- ernment came. Austrian troops did not participate in the new offensive. French troops repulsed a raid on their trenches on the western front, in the Butte du Mesnil sector. German planes made their third raid in as many nights on London, but there were no casualties. In the Charles Humbert, French senator and owner of the Paris Journal, was arrested and charged with treason in connection with his dealings with Bolo Pasha, later condemned to death for treason. rey As soon as business ‘realizes that the federal government is taking en- ergetic steps to break the full force of the calamitous depression, confi- dence will revive—Senator Wagner of New York, ‘ sf There is no crisis in Europe.— : Notes about personalities—Lannie Ross, one of the better radio tenors —if not among the best known—tells me he was a Yale track star four years ago... . He held a record for the 440 and was Olympic games ma- George Bernard Shaw. * ek OK Authors should be read and not seen or heard.—Edna Ferber. ** % IT came back to find the people ma MOLLY ROSSITER, her elde for, MYRA, and h saved to 3 to get ‘agrees to” borer lovely white frock. ie Ellen dines with Barclay he drives her to Dream! e young man asks to be-tntroderd to her, He saya hii tt LARRY SMITH. He goes t ‘bey tickets whit for ted ets Barclay’s everything ex- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI TABBY had bought a string of tickets, each marked “good for one dance.” There were dozens, He dropped the ribbon of bright green over Ellen's bare arm so that it curled almost to the floor. “That's for all evening,” he told her. “No one else is to dance with you.” “I believe you've made a mis- take,” Ellen said, trying to temper the bubbling joyousness in her voice. “I think they sold you a railroad ticket to California.” “It does look like that.” . Tony, gliding past, summed up the incident with approving, inter- ested eyes. Tho 17-year-old plainly considered the older girl to be her protege. “I knew you'd be lucky, Ellen,” she called over her shoulder and was gone, “Now what did she mean?” Larry demanded, “She meant I was lucky to find such a good—customer,” Ellen ad- vised him demurely, . “No. It's the customer who's lueky.” Their laughter rang out. Larry swept Ellen into his arms and they were caught into the emotion-laden atmosphere of the room. Boys and girls were dancing closely in the semi-darkness, cheek to cheek, heart to heart. Light frocks blurred against the darker clothes of the men; white, bare arms clutched at broad shoulders. There was no sound except the muted whine of the orchestra and the swish of danc- ing feet, and, from outside, through the open windows, the subdued up- roar of @ never resting Broadway. Boys and girls, in the artificial darkness, were snatching feverishly at a little moment of tawdry ro- mance, lest it pass them by; snatch: ing at a moment of forgetfulness of daily tasks while the saxophones moaned, Ellen and Larry bumped into a couple who had stopped for a pas- stonate embrace. Ellen felt again that she would weep. She did not know quite why. But she knew that if Larry Smith attempted to embrace her in that furtive dark- ness something shining and young and beautiful would be gone for ever. At the same time she knew that if he drew her close, close to ne re ara not resist, jon't seem to care much for this,” be ventured at length, th comfortably, And then abruptly, with no preliminaries,’ he asked, “What are you doing here?” eee BLN experienced a lightness \*4 and buoyancy of spirit as though something she feared had “What about tomorrow been passed. All at once she was able to laugh at herself. What a’ mad fool she had become. All of her values seemed changed. So much depended tonight upon so little, She saw that Larry was watching her face as he waited for her to answer. She gestured toward @ sign on the wall. They had to dance through the crowd and to the outskirts so that he could read. His own gray eyes lighted when he read that hostesses when dancing were limited in con- versation to “yes” and “no.” “Do you like me a lot?” he in- quired promptly. Ellen feared that he would dis- cern the swift hammering of her heart. She felt the color creeping into her face. ‘i “Go on, tell me,” he urged. “Yes or no?” So he thought he would tease her! “Yes,” Ellen responded, but very dubiously indeed. He looked disconcerted and then he added sheepishly, “Well that one seems to have been on me. So you think I'm taking an unfair advan- tage?” “Yes!” The second “yes” was emphatic and pointed. Their laughter rang out again. “Well, what do you say,” he sug- gested, “if we leave the mute danc- ing to those.as likes it mute? I ‘Want to talk.” They were at a table and barely Seated before he asked the second time, “What are you doing here?” “Earning my living.” “Do you really mean that?” He was plainly startled. ‘She had on the tip of her tongue a tart re- tort and she observed that he was studying her dress. She had for- gotten Steven Barclay until then— DIZZINESS, By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association ‘Whenever a person previously in good health suddenly becomes dizzy, giddy, or light-headed, he has devel- oped ® symptom that demands seri- ous consideration. ‘We walk erect and undisturbed through what is known as the sense of equilibrium. This sense is made up of a number of senses coming from various places in the human body. In the internal ear there are the semi- circular canals, small rings of bone in the fluid, these rings being in dif- ferent planes ‘or levels, From these rings sensations pass to the brain, in- dicating whether or not we are stand- ing erect, lying flat, or falling down- ward; whether we are moving for- ward or backward. ‘As an example of the way in which they work, all of us have on occasion felt the sensation that we are still going forward when riding on a train hat has stopped. : ‘This is due to the brief time re- quired for the fluid in the semi-cir- cular canals to readjust itself to the new situation. Anything tl interferes with the risen above partisan politics.—Charles G. Dawes, #* % No vetoes or prohibitions will keep i people from running after it (alco- hol).—Rev. Howard Chandler Rob- bins of New York. x Oe * Britishers remain passive in the midst of the most moving music— Jascha Heifetz, celebrated violinist, — | Barbs 4 J Copper-tasting oysters really con- tain copper, a scientist has found. Now if someone would just start ex- Perimenting psd eral containing fluid, with solid substances | t] Se nd LIKE A COUGH, IS NATURE’S DANGER SIGN Heed This Warning, or Serious Illness May Follow’: yhanism of the semi-circular ca- nals will produce attacks of dizzi- ness, Sometimes these attacks take the form of making the person feel that everything else is moving while he is standing still; sometimes he feels himself moving when he is not. If the body tends to accumulate acid, a sense of dizziness is a promi- nent symptom. A Since the eye helps the internal ear and the muscle sense to judge posi- tion in space, any disorder affecting the ability of the eye to co-ordinate with these other senses will result in his symptom. If the sentation of dizziness is tran- sitory, and if it yields promptly to proper hygiene, such as suitable at- tention to the diet, digestion, the ac- tion of the kidneys, and correction of disorders of vision, the person need not feel disturbed. However, repeated dizziness, which may be the result of an insufficient blood supply to the brain, of insufficient action of the heart, of a tumor growing in con- nection with the semi-circular canals, or of some disturbance in the brain, demands careful scientific study. A spell of dizziness, like @ cough, is a danger sign—unless heedéd, disaster may ensue. seem that the only thing Japan is not willing to do in China is stop fight- ing. * * Speaker Garner announces that he is going to wear a high. stiff collar. ‘Well, that’s one way of keeping your chin up. * * * There may still be some argument as to who won the World war, but there's little doubt left as to who will pay for it. * * Chinese bandits who reduced the ransom of an American from $10,- {000,000 to $200,000 must have been |reading the stock market news. (Copyright, i ee Service, Inc.) A congressman says if you don’t ‘We wonder if the peace Japan is shouldn't be spelled “piece.” it of at tea?” Larry asked, forgotten why she was at Dream- land, forgotten everything except that she was 20 years old and that life had become for her a thrilling and rose-hued miracle, “Certainly I mean it,” she re plied. There was no reason why she should explain to this young Tanger how it happened that she was able to wear a Paris gown, It was impossible for her to do 80, She had a passionate desire that he should know nothing of her re- sponsibilities, of the care and fretting trouble which had shad- owed her youth. She wanted only to laugh and to forget everything else. To him she must stand for gayety, for careless and irrespon- sible fun, He was not Steven Barclay. How did she know how quickly she might, by any hasty or misjudged attempt to precipitate him into her life, turn that eager look into the expression of boredom that she had seen before. She did not amplify her bere statement, Hoe was checked. “Did you believe me,” he asked after a pause, “when I told the manager my name was Smith?” “It you say it’s Smith,” Ellen ob- served irrelevantly, “then it must be Smith.” eee He tone was clear,, her eyes lucid and innocent. It was the young man's tura to flush, “Tm afraid you won't undeh stand,” he began uneginfortable be- fore that lucid gaze, “but anyhow I must explain. My name isn’t Smith, When I said it was I hadn't de- cidea—” “Whether or not you'd trust me with the secret,” Ellen s smoothly, meres of it have liquor, the girl of today will ex # From the Japanese answer to the League of Nations proposals, it would talking about wanting from China|kick you in the pants. But if you do, you'll get it in the neck. Use the Want Ads She was not offended. Larry drew @ breath of relief. “You're being darn nice about {t,” he said. “Well, anyhow my name is Larry. Larry Harrowgate, age 27, occupation artist of sorts, pros- pects nothing!” “I'm to take that as a warning?” “It you want to take it that way.” They both laughed ecstatically, “No, but seriously,” he presently resumed in a voice which he tried hard to make brisk and sensible, “did you mean what you said—out on the floor? Do you really like me?” “Seriously,” she answered duti- fully, although she still bubbled wi excitement and laughter, “I 0.” “Then that's that,” he observed in satisfaction, “We're through with all the preliminaries, Now we can settle down and really get to know each other.” They were interrupted by a waiter demanding their order, Larry confessed to a ravenous ap- petite and not even Ellen's warning that the food might be bad pre- vented him from selecting almost everything on the bill of fare, When the waiter withdrew he be gan to rally her. “What's wrong with you?” he in. quired solicitously, “Are you a canary bird? I never saw a girl main silent. how many girls he had laughed wae dust as he had laughed ‘with er “What about tomorrow st tea?” he was asking eagerly. “You don't work Saturday afternoons, do you?” She oon a long, fluttering breath, ‘I'd lo She was gone, before who wouldn't eat on the slightest provocation.” “I didn’t want to order any- thing,” Ellen confessed in growing embarrassment, “because I a Percentage on what you pay.” “You fodlish youngster! 1 wouldn’t think you were a profiteer even if you'd ordered a diamond necklace. I couldn’t have paid for but then—you'll have to eat half mine.” eee But when the food arrived, sand- wiches and cakes and a bowl of steaming chow mein, decorated with slivers of chicken, neither wanted to eat. They wanted to dance again and again, to dance forever or until they dropped from exhaustion. holiday they skylarked about the floor. Again and again they discov- ered with pleased and excited ex- clamations how well their steps fitted. Amazing, thrilling to change quickly from the langorous grace Like children on a the tango to the rowdy breath- less complications of the outmoded Charleston—amazing to dance with someone who moved almost as you moved, The whole day had been the most exciting of Ellen’s life, She almost hoped it would never end. But the efiding, when it came, was sweet- est of all, “You make a big difference to me,” Larry summarized it with simple fervor, ia has made my summer for ie.” “T'm—I'm glad you found me.” ae it won't we—you and I? We'll hi fun, Won't we? What oo Elle: . “Ob, grand,” she murmured, Even in the midst of her pleasure she wondered why he did not say anything more definite. She felt a little twinge of dismay at the thought he knew where “Just finding you, Go places and seo things, do a” you say, to find her, she must re- How did she know he never returned e it.” (To Be Continued)