The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1932, Page 4

Whe Bismarck Tribune B.A An Independent Newspaper ‘THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Save gry Bismarck, N. D., and en- at the postoffice at Bismarck as ‘second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in ms " Advance Daily carrier, per year Daily by mail per year ( marck) Datly by mail outside of North Dakota 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 ‘Weekly by mafl in state, three URES asics Cie iwtacecisees ss. 2d ‘Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year ... . 150 ‘Weekly by mail in Canada, per Member of Audit Bureau of 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 ‘newapaper and also the local news ‘ of spontaneous origin published here- iin, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives ’ SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS t! & BREWER r (Incorporated) 4 CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON G t During the last few days Bismarck thas been host to some of the finest € jewels in North Dakota's crown, the members of the high school basket- sball teams here to compete in the 1gtate tournament and the boys and ¢ Sitls who came along to cheer them on. h Because all sections are represented “at these tournaments the gathering £ was most representative of the youth of our state and one of which North Dakota, or any other state in the ester, might well be proud. To the winners go the joys of a championship. To the runners-up and other participants comes the satisfaction of having done their best ‘and the experience of participation | Seed the state’s premier high school athletic event. It is a situation where everyone who comes with an open mind gains something. No one loses. Back home, in the rest of the state, there are hundreds of high school teams, each of which watches the © results of the state tournament with interest. At the beginning some of hy them had hopes of participation, but ©Cthe fates which rule the affairs of sport decided against them and they were left by the wayside during the be march to the grand finale. br And so the teams which played T® here were representatives, not only Jo Of their home cities but of entire dis- ye tricts of the state. They were rep- iit resentative of the thousands of fine boys and girls who appear each year fr in athletic competitions in this state. al They offered proof of the fine phy- that youth today is just as clear- ‘weeyed, frank and forward-looking as ets Oe In times where it takes real cour- Tre, to keep the fighting spirit at what the future holds, not only for the individual but for the nation, ‘one gets new encouragement by at- ow tending these tournaments. He finds Br. New sources of hope and new springs act of inspiration, for nowhere can one Mi sind better proof that the future of fof the nation will be in competent hands gin than at these trials of athletic prow- rec ess by the younger generation. fin And 50, because it likes to enter- tain these outstanding young men of Le: the state, because it enjoys the thrill Ma which comes with “tournament time,” jan Bismarck hopes that they will be with pa us again next year and for many wit years in the future. A wil Let Tax Reduction be Sane ~ Viv In the hysteria that has possessed sok S0me quarters for tax reduction there F lies a very real danger in the impair- & -I ment of the necessary functions of |government. Tax reduction is neces- sary in many departments of county, eae and state government but the Yen! pruning must be done carefully, just- Jott| dy and in a sane manner. lyn! . The demand for tax reduction was Jong delayed in North Dakota and it is only natural that the sponsors of ‘y the movement should be carried away ‘be. « by their own enthusiasm. | Slashing state and county salaries fil Is e matter thet should be gone into for garefully lest a great injustice be és _ done. The payroll totals stand out prominently in any budget and to cut : “10 or 20 per cent down the whole ros- ter of public officials offers an easy wg if not a fair way of securing tax re- Clu} duction. > Rather there should be an intensi- fied study of the various departments “of county, city and state government M sical development, speed and stamina} bed of the youth of our state. They proved | working pitch, when one wonders| in no uncertain terms, but action to- ward this end should be directed in a cautious and intelligent manner. Many township governing boards have already pointed the way and a means toward tax reduction. Disarmament Prospects As the world disarmament confer- ence enters its second month it is well for the delegates and the gov- ernments and peoples they represent to take inventory of the accomplish- ments, if any, to date. If ground has 20 {been gained or if the conference has j@ shadow of a chance to gain its goal, it should be evident by now. While there is no evidence of at- tempts at sabotage there are political interests that would like definite de- 50 |cisions postponed to a more conven- fent “season, for example, until after the French parliamentary elections. On the part of the American dele- gates there is no show of soldiering or balking. They are as one with the British delegation in the position that the committees should complete their work before the Easter recess, and 1some concrete results should be ob- |tained shortly after the recess ends. | The plea of Dr. Mary Wooley, of! the American delegation, for contin- ued support from the people “back home” intimates that all is not well over there and that only popular de- mand for action in the countries con- cerned can overcome official hesi- tancy and obstruction. Two interpretations may be placed upon the fact that 23 main questions of principle, distributed into 41 sub- z 5 s ‘divisions, are before committees and ‘An Incentive to Clean Sport | ‘cubsdommietees, Either everything possible is being done to detour the conference from the main road or the several nations are making an honest effort to get together. Persons fearing an accident plead with Sir Malcolm Campbell to stop his speed record attempts at 254 miles an hour. Isn't applying the brakes at that speed rather danger- ous? Perhaps that tax rise won't be nec- essary after all. Gangsters, fearing the fate of Capone, are said to be paying their income taxes. Editorial Comment Fditorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies, Bureaus (New York Times) Objecting to certain items in the agricultural appropriation bill, Sena- tor McKellar reviewed sardonically certain achievements of bureaucracy in the Department of Agriculture. In 1919 a Massachusetts man found worms in his sweet corn. So Sena- tor Lodge introduced a bill author- izing the appropriation of $10,000 to investigate, and if possible to exter- minate, the European corn borer. Such were the modest beginnings of the corn borer bureau. Corn borers are mighty few, but 92 men are em- Ployed in the well-paid task of look- ing for them. Representative Fish told Mr. McKellar that last summer the department sent 96 corn-borer hunters into his district. They stayed there all through the season. They found no borers. The annual cost of this army of seekers has been from $750,000 to $1,000,000 a yea This fiscal year 1933, and the senate com- mittee on appropriations has ap- proved the cut. But if there are no corn borers, why are there so many official students and eradicators of them? To ban and destroy the Mediter- ranean fruit fly, “discovered in the fruit war between California and Florida several years ago,” the gov- ernment has spent $6,710,000. One of the department's bulletins con- fesses that no living man has ever seen in this country a living Mediter- ranean fruit fly. The bureau found a dead one one time, and they have him in a glass case in the bureau. When the search for this Mrs. Har- ris of the insect world was at its hot- test a friend of Mr. McKellar's, au- tomobiling in Florida, was stopped and his car searched 17 times. Such was the vigilance of these treasure hunters. The senator's friend had reason to tremble. There was a bot- tle of liquid in the car. Since 1907 nearly $12,000,000 has been devoted to putting the browntail and gypsy moths out of business. Senator Kean says there are none left in New Jer- sey. There are still a few in Massa- chusetts. Possibly there are preserves of them. The most effective work against them has been done by the States. Starting small, the bureau has grown larger and larger. No doubt it will be still rejoicing in its pay envelopes a hundred years hence, It takes the clerks of two bureaus jat about $400,000 a year to look after |the Japanese and the Asiatic beetle. |The first appropriation in 1916 was only $10,000 or $20,000. The Mexican fruit worm has never crossed the border. There is a bureau at about $125,000 a year to keep him out. Most of this goes for salaries at Washing- ton. This year there is an appro- Priation for $200,000 for a bureau which deals with “taxonomy and in- terrelation of insects,” imports and exchanges of useful insects, and s0 on. This is a notable bureau. In 22 years it has never made a report. But here is our special joy: The barberry bureau for the eradi- cation of the barberry bush was cre- ated because a bug flew from a corn field onto a barberry bush and then flew back to the corn, and it might destroy the corn; and yet we have made more corn every year since 1918, with one or two possible excep- tions, than we ever made before. Even so, in those 14 years we have spent $4,385,086 for the purpose of eradicating barberry bushes, and the does not know which are the ‘There are 29 bureaus in the depart- ment of agriculture. They are im- mortal. They can’t be abolished. When times get better there will be Editor's Note: This informa- tion should point congress a way to tax reduction instead of tax tion or a sales tax. The House That ‘Jack’ Built The Lively “Dead” Road New York, March 25.—Billy Rose, who was a Tin Pan Alley piano thumper not so many years ago, has returned to Broadway from what has been laughingly referred to as “the road,” convinced that there's more gold in “them thar hills” than in Broadway. Rose, in case his show happened to miss your town, is the snappy young man who set forth with a musical production, “Crazy Quilt” to see what would happen to a one-night stand brigade of touring troubadors. He knew he would have to use Shrine auditoriums, Elks halls, public build- ings, and whatever other spot might be available. Amazing rumors began to come back to stagger the Broadway entre- preneurs who insisted that “the road” was dead: $12,000 in Memphis; $10,000 in Indianapolis and Louis- ville; $400 over capacity in Kansas City; similar showings in Ft. Wayne, Nashville, Peoria, Sioux Falls, Phoe- nix, El Paso, Tulsa, Wichita, Joplin, Amarillo, Dallas, Houston, Shreve- port, San Bernadino, San Diego, El Paso—and way points. And now so heavily booked that it will have to run until June! se 8 Plans Good Things So what? Billy Rose leans back on his roll top and gazed across the room toward the funniest painting ever made: John Decker’s portrait of Fanny Brice, in imitation of Mona . o year the sum asked was $795,000. The | risa" Be the boys and girls of yesterday ever| House cut it down to $295,000 for the “It means that you can tell the folks out there that I'm going to put two shows on the road a year—yes, sir, I'm going to try to become the Barnum of the road business,” he be- STICKERS THE PLAYFUL ANTICS © OF THE PORPOISE PROVE THAT IT (6 NOT A FISH, BUT A MAMMAL 4 Fi6H D0 NOT 4 CLAY. BZ — THIS CURIOUS WORLD — ‘gan. “Got two music shows in re- thearsal now, and my future plan is this: I'll bring a show into New York and give it eight weeks run to get it limbered. Only eight weeks, no mat- ter what it looks like. Then I'll yank it out and send it out for a 42-week run, That's what I think of the road —42 weeks and one show trailing the other about four months behind!” ee tions for seat selling. We literally sold ’em out of a hat. We used the town book store, the drug store, and in one place a big meat market. “The whole thing was done just as though a circus was being billed. I got hold of John Ringling and asked him to loan me one of the best and biggest circus men he had; someone who could figure the jumps and knew the show towns. I got Nick Alvord. And we made our jumps without missing a performance. When it came to the bill-board stuff, we sometimes posted barns gnd fences 60 miles away from the show town. We had them coming in by train, car and mo- torcycle. “The road dead% Well, we took about $175,000 out of twenty-four stops.” - > Barbs | ‘> Now they're saying we ought to take politics out of government. The only people who will oppose that are the eee ee ee Dressy—and How! * veryone in Broadway, of course, jasks the questions: how did he do it? |What sort of experiences were en- \ countered? “We call it the sticks here . . . well lemme tell you, in San Antonio one of the dressiest houses you ever saw turned out,”.said Rose, warming up. “Nothing but evening clothes in the house. Yes, sir, I became the natur- al born ‘enemy of moths. Dinner jackets that had been in the moth|| balls all over the land came out, “No, we found darn few straight theaters ready. Once or twice we went into places that had been empty so long we had to shoo the mice off the seats. But we hit Shrine audi- toriums where the swell set-up would stagger you. Best lights you ever saw; best spots and best dressing Too! ms. “In Omaha we had to play in a high school auditorium .. . flat floor and no tilt. In Nashville we used an auditorium that was built in the Civil} War and had church pews for seats. If a ticket holder sat on either side, he could only see the head of the; orchestra leader. In another town, the stars had to dress in the wash- room. “Most places had no accommoda- Everybody talked about depression. BEGIN HERE TODAY 20-year-old, LaRRY HA! FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: t is Filen agrees to BARCLAY, 57 yea en for her brother, in a street accident. her sister, MYRA, BERT ARMSTEAD. Barclay has been married ai divorced, Scandal accompan! om the: Even a light breakfast may re- quire heavy thought. to dance. Barcla: he will return. CHAPTER XXXVII She would be dead. tonight instead of Steven. sometimes seen on canvas, kind of cold despair. In a passion of fear she ran Jerked them on. 1 ELLEN ROSSITER, beautifal falls in love with WGATE, yous cee retures \e. Lar fs lost to her, ) marry STEVEN a thy, who has pald hospital i ©, MERE, Ble marriage will thes lOLLY osnible marry lea GRAYSON, divorce LEDA eer, fearing this talk ma: be revived, ané Ellen agree keep their marriage sail for Batspes Bar 4 ey re late leaves his bride, saying She heard @ knock at the door. “Just a minute,” she called out. | cerned a muffied beat, Ellen slipped her feet into mules,| Ellen-ran to the telephone end * # # More convincing than any wet-dry poll is the fact that Senator Brook- has turned his attention from \ovies, sae Men’s clothes to be bright this spring, say the fashion experts. Do they mean bright poe shiny? * % Delegates to the International Wine in Paris talked about prohibition in the United States for hours. But no matter how much they talk, they'll never catch up with us. (Copyright, 132, NEA Service, Inc.) dozens of fresh German divisions were thrown into the dines in an ef- fort to smash communications be- tween the British and French armies. German officials claimed the cap- ture of more than 3000 prisoners and much equipment at Bapaume. Ger- man news agencies announced that the Fifth British Army was com- pletely demoralized and was being taken from the front. Three French divisions were thrown into a gap between the French and British lines and held on to their po- sitions despite massed assaults of German shock troops. Losses in the great battle being waged in Picardy were running into many thousands daily. General Pershing announced that two regiments of American troops had taken position on the Picardy battle front. They were the first American troops to engage in a major conflict in the World War. EIN, The safest risk in the world is a share in the future of the American people.—President Herbert Hoover. * * My policy of avoiding publicity has been knocked for a row of milk bot- tles. Now I'm up in the news bigger than the Shanghai war.—Salvatore Spitale, New York gangster and Lind- bergh go-between. * * *® Poverty is at the bottom of all crime.—Clarence Darrow, noted at- torney. “ek The American people are pretty much aroused and they will attend to the Republican party in November.— Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. * * I have not been, I I do not expect to be a * am not now and candidate for wrapped the flowing negligee about. her eo that her throat was hidden and her arms and even her bare feet. Only her enormous, terrified eyes seemed visible. “It’s Steven,” she heard through the door. The knob turned slowly and the door opened. Steven stepped into the room. As he entered he was thinking that Ellen was a child, that she must be frightened and that he must treat her gently. When he saw her wrapped in the rosy robe, her ‘hair a golden aureole, all his preconceived plans went down before her beauty. It seemed to him that he saw her for the first time and that he was not an old man with a heart that was an old crock, but, instead, that this beautiful woman who was his wife had by some magic made him young. All that he could re member was that sho was his wife and that he had come to claim her love, She raised her arms almost as if to fend him off but the rosy robe fell away at the shoulders so that he saw the flesh beneath and was filled with desire. She was in his NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | arms, Her body arched back in a spasm of terror and the robe elid FLLLEN walked through the bed-| away and to the floor as his kisses room and out on the balcony. fell upon her throat and shoulders, looked down toward the ground, pale in the starlight, and| kill her and that if she screamed thought that if she jumped she/ no one would hear. This man was Sho was thinking that this. would not Steven Barclay at all! He Then, because she was afrald,| swung her to his arms and carried she ran inside. She did not want) her across the room to the golden to die. She wanted to live and/ bed. She felt his body pressed knew that in spite of evérything| against bers and knew that she she hoped Larry would come to her| was fainting. She thought she heard @ scream and then a soft She got up and took off her danc-| bump just as dark fog seemed to ing frock, It fell to the floor aad fill the room, blotting out the rosy she left it there, shining in a poo! lights, of light. She dropped off ber chemise and stood naked in the GHE came to consclousness ery: splendid room. Her body was hard} {ag hysterically. Then she real- and beautiful and glowed with| {zed that Steven bad fallen to the tawny lights and with strange un-| Soor and that that was the sound Gertones of green like the greén| she had heard. She saw him ly- ing, white and quiet, beside the + She stood silent moment and/ bed. ilen, frightened and sick thought how strange @ thing and with horror, flung herself to the how terrible a thing was desire.| foor beside him, calling out his No matter how much she might/ name again and again, long to be its master she must re| Hi main its servant. She still wanted} She thought, “He is my husband Larry and felt in her knowledge a/ and I've killed him.” She knelt 4 not answer, ahtvering by his side and tried to to| feel bis pulse and did not know the bed, seised her pajamas and| whether or not she felt a flutter, But when she laid her hand upon his heart she was sure she dis- ae EEE AE OR AE APTA A NATE Daily Health News Declining Death Rates Cheering News for Persons Over 65 New York City Figures Show Drops in All Groups + By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American ‘Medical Association ° Further cheering news for persons over 65 years old may be found in a recent bulletin of the city of New York Department of Health, which shows that death rates for 1930 are lower in every ¢! ‘tion they were in 1900. Another fact brought out in the same, bulletin shows that the per- centage of persons more than 65 years old has increased every 10 years since 1910, For example in 1900, 2.70 per cent of the population was over 65; in 1910, 2.84 per cent; in 1920, 3.11 per cent, and in 1930, 3.83 per cent: From these figures it will be noted cent of the total population in 1931, and 1930 was more than twice as great as the percentage gain from 1900 to 1920. To go more deeply into the classi- fication of New York’s population by ages, the chart shows that persons from 35 to 64 amounted to 33.8 per cent of the total population in 1931. as compared with 27.5 per cent in 1930. These figures show more clearly than ever that science and. medicine must concern themselves more than ever with good health for those past middle age in life. Declining death rates for older any political office—Melvin A, Tray- lor, Chicago banker. | i I have not much longer to live. All. I live for is to see my innocent boy out of ‘Mrs, Mary Mooney, ace Note.—The but “Et: spect such Tequests. We reserve the right to aulete such parts of lette: to may. > ensary conform thts poliey. WING MAN GIVES VIEWS Wing, N. D., March 22, 1932, Editor, Tribune: In a recent issue you approached the subject of trend toward social- ism. This is not a new thing and thus far it seems to have been a success. Since government control is social- ism, I will give a list of the success- ful enterprises our government has taken: ‘a! ‘We have the United States mail. The national forests. ‘The national parks. The United States and state high- ways. The government bridges. Ssyoanuau mnie of Tom ze People’s Forum persons show that progress is being made, but the decline for adults is still far below the decline for the Younger groups. For example, the death rate for children between five and nine is now less than half the 1900 nite for both boys and girls, while the rate for adults between 60 and 64 has de- than /clined approximately eight per cent. The difference in some of the older groups, while still substantial, ts somewhat less. One interesting thing to note is that death rates for females in New York are lower in every age classifi- cation than for men. This is true of the group between 25 and 29, which was the only one to sHow an advant- age for the men in 1920. After 45, the difference between death rates for men and women be- comes more pronounced. ‘These figures, while showing little not already generally accepted as truths, show that actual facts bear witness to progress man has made in preserving life, and indicate that further progress may be expected. Much work, of course, remains to be done with the older classifications, But the work has been started, at least, and a drop in this group sim- ilar to the one already accomplished in the infant groups would mean many more years of life for millions of people. The great Panama canal. The government schools. These are a list of real government business enterprises, all of which have private competition. still they have been functioning well for many years, And I believe there are not many people who would want the govern- ment to get out of these business en- terprises. So why should we stop from going fotward when we don't want to go backwards. And we all know that we have not reached perfection, so we have no reason to stand still. Just the same, I do not believe in abolishing capitalism, for if we abol- ished capitalism it would take the stimulant that makes a man work away from the inside and force us to put it on the outside. And if we abolished socialism we would soon be ruled with the bar- barian rule of might makes right. A. W. JOSEPHSON. . HE NEVER FORGOT ‘Texarkana.—Joe Hughes found out that Judge Louis Joseph has a good memory. Joe was hailed before the judge on a reckless driving charge. “How do you do?” the judge greeted Joe. “You're the boy who thumbed your nose at me, aren’t you?” Joe remembered then that he had done that little act six months before. The judge got a big laugh out of casting it up to Joe. Buy or Sell Through The Tribune Want Ads gasped out to the operator that ehe|eyelids. They did not flicker and Steven’s breathing barely stirred 8h * the sheet that covered him, eo was back at ‘Steven's sid¢) > scently Ellen was sent to. walt wanted a physician. again. She remembered that it/1) must be his heart but el being resuscitated they must bo| q. kept warm, and tore the coverlet around his cold, rigid body. tried to get Steven ‘into the bed, but his weight resisted all her ef- forts, dle instead.” : ie Derson fn a trance Ellen answered. It was Symes calling Steven, She told him Steven was dying. She heard him say he would send doo- tors and come at once, For the first time she saw that her pa-|and unshaven, came to tell her jamas were torn. She remembered | What they were doing in the room beyond, came to tell her something je ne ye pres ane Sh eegese 80 to wed to ret She could find no bell. Bilen| to Steven that he kept silent, ae Wrapped the rosy negligee around | dering, as he looked into her white, her and started across the cold| Still face, if he had not been wrong after all, Presently he went away. too that she must locate Fergus and get him to help her, waxed floors in her bare feet, great fear that al to his side. She cried out again, begging him to forgive her. She told him that if he died she, too, eee Ss" thought heard moving in the hall filled with cold horror. someone and was ia to at her as if to some news from her. His ito voice ex: Pressed sympathy but when from the garde: ts of fi rest un- en, scents of Sowers til the doctor comes?” he asked, | 824 grasses, Ellen heard the chirp can I rest?” she cried and| ° awakening birds and somewhere seated herself in the chair beside|® to a. In the grip of iat e E _ parrens Hg Siete acl im pour som Steven's throat. Vertigo, over her but she sat quietly the brisk, efficient man at t! would regain consclousness, so shé| to sat watching, watching the closed did not | Westcott told her with professional know what to do, She remembered ne to lie age Gin she could that wi not lie down. She could only wait. eb hihrnas er ylyneed tasceted delete Another doctor arrived. Symes trived, She heard cars sweeping up the driveway and heard the from the bed and wrapped it| frantic, She| telephone. She heard doors and shut’ but she was cut away, from the activity and barred from Steven's side, She could only wait. After a while a nurse rustied into All the time she was thinking, | the livi “He is my husband and he’s dying, | lights and told Hllen to be in read- Hell never know that I'd rather| {ness for a call. She urged Hllen the girl would not nor would she She was weeping, pleading thet] tie down. She sat, pale and atill, he should hear her when the tele-| her hands clasped, her eyes filled phone rang shatteringly, Like a| With useless, burning tears, She prayed over and over that she might once again speak to Steven and look into his kind, brown eyes, Hardly out of the door she felt @| room and tried to think of Steven would return} dead. The whispers, the alarmed to find Steven dead and ran back| eyes, the quick movements in the room. beyond, even her own heart told her that Steven was dying, would die, But he did not answer, | dully. ‘ould be noon and then night and then noon again. Time would not ‘stop even if Steven died while she waited outside his room. Why. wouldn't they let her go to him? Sho was his wife, She had a right Ellen red ee core ber face with her Toom was very quiet, desperate nostalgia, be again in the shabby apartmen sire, fare ae at al here with her husband, ae down | Tested her head on the sill, She swept|*obbed out her grief and misery lest} 8nd Symes found her there when e bed. | he came to tell her that Steven was side should send her away. He had| Testlning consclousness, sald there was a chance Steven| tly He told her that she the living room beyond. Dr, Dersistent ringing of t! en Toom, snapped on the drink an ammonia solution but slow hours dragged on to ward morning. Symes, haggard Ellen walked up and down the The nurse entered again. “What time is it?” Ellen asked “Halt past five.” Ellen saw that dawn was break She thought that soon it be at bis side, But had she? The nurse went away again. The Scents of the dawn drifted in dog barked. She thought of home and felt a She wanted be with those who loved her, to Ellen knelt by the window and Very gen- ‘was to go him, (To Be Continued) uu ae Z:' a \ L tt ¢ wit aa