The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1932, Page 4

T. 'HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, ‘THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932 class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Dally by carrier, per year ......67.20 Dally by mail per year (in Bis- Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years . Weekly by Dakota, per year ............. 1.50 Weekly by mail in Canada, per Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively spontaneous origin pul All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTO! 2 ah a ARS A Curious World ‘The youngster who fell down a nar- row mine shaft in Oklahoma was saved after several dozen men and thousands of dollars’ worth of me- chanical equipment had been pressed into service for him. The eagerness with which the people of that Okla- fhoma town mobilized themselves to get one little three-year-old out of a hole in the ground is an inspiring, heartening thing. Unfortunately, though, that’s only ‘one side of the picture. We live in a cock-eyed world, and here's another Uttle story to prove it. While this rescue work was going ‘on in Oklahoma, a third grade teacher in @ public school in a large middle- western city was asking her pupils to write short themes entitled, “What I hhad for breakfast this morning.” ‘The themes, when she got them, were rather shocking. A lot of them consisted of pathetic little scrawls saying, “I didn’t have any breakfast this morning”—“I had a cup of cof- fee”—“Mother went away this morn- ing and didn’t get me any breakfast” —“Nothing.” So the teacher, dipping into a slen- der fund raised by public contribu- tion, bought each of these youngsters a half pint of milk. . She had had them write that theme, you see, so that she could find out, tactfully, just which children had come breakfastless to school. The city in which this happened is large, and, as cities go, rich. It has magnificent public buildings, it sup- Ports an excellent symphony orches- tra, a fine art museum and three ‘well-equipped colleges. It has a string of suburbs which contain some of America’s finest homes. It also con- tains several thousand children who get no breakfasts; and in order to get @ little money to buy milk for them, it was necessary for the city’s news- papers and its radio stations to con- duct a long and spirited campaign. Let one child get into danger and ‘we are quick to come to the rescue. Let several thousand suffer from acute hunger, though, and we remain placid; or we give them each a half Pint of milk and think we've done our whole duty. New York Modifies Baumes Law New York state has revised the Grastic character of its famous Baumes law. Unter this statute, life imprisonment was mandatory for a fourth conviction of felony. ‘The so-called fourth-offender life- (penalty law was enacted by the New ‘York legislature to check the rising tide of crime immediately following tthe World war. The purpose of criminal laws is that they be both deterrent and correction- fal. There is no means of determin- ing the deterrent effects of this fourth-offender law. No doubt it had ‘considerable influence in controlling the acts of many criminals having three convictions for felony to their discredit, On the other hand, the law ‘appears to have provided no posstbil- jSties for a correctional service to & ‘peraon faced with a life term in ‘prison. | After more than ten years’ trial ‘and as a result of some years’ study of the state’s prison problems, Gov- ernor Roosevelt has just signed a bill providing for a minimum penalty of offenders. | 1930. disclosed most of the trouble haa | been provoked by inmates serving life { under the Baumes law. It is that men facing on the situation: United States Senate. way. But suoh a course by Gove In North Dakota the situation is the egis of the Republican party so tl There is a strong faction in the who would like to tie up with the New Rockford which would be accept This clique would like to see a man of! such as Senator Nye and others. . Ppediency. Democratic presidential primaries. ticket. They want no bar sinister i Those 84,000 votes have driven Prejudices with them. One clique, w! their leader. certain, as much is involved. of more than a decade. most stupid of politicians. . their suggestion. This would mcan I. V. A. auspices. They remind us at Grand Forks and started its oper: which denounced such folly. All these groups will be represent cause it was felt that the mandatory life sentence was too severe. At the time this law was enacted many law-makers were of the opin- fon it would not accomplish its pur- pose and predicted its repeal or modi- fication. This opinion appears to have been well founded. Michigan has a@ similar law, more infamous than famous by reason of & so-called “life for a pint” sentence for violation of the prohibition law. A man is now serving a life term in Jackson prison because his fourth con- viction for a felony came from his al- leged possession of a pint of liquor. New York has taken a forward step in modifying the drastic features of a law which, in so many cases. defeated its own purpose and resulted in much injustice. A Man ‘Stark Mad’ The case of an Illinois convict who set fire to the prison chapel because he was “tired of being shut up” and “wanted to see the whole place burn up” is a tragic example of what long- continued imprisonment can do to a human soul. This man has been in prison for 35 years. Prison officials describe him as “stark mad’—which seems rather obvious, since there was not the slightest chance that his act of incendiarism could have benefited him in any way. That, apparently, is what happens to @ man who is locked up for a life- time. It gives one a dark, tragic pic- ture of what goes on in the minds and hearts of the men whom society has had to keep under lock and key. Many folks try to learn the direc- ition of prevailing winds before giv- ing an opinion on anything. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thou ay other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree Where Will They Go? (An Editorial.) Minnesota's national politics presents an interesting situation. last election the Farmer-Labor party captured the state government through the election of Governor Floyd B. Olson. Without national affilia- tions, party leaders are flirting with the Democrats and a fusion with that party may make Olson’s candidacy very formidable next fall. ‘The Farmer-Labor element leans strongly to Franklin D. Roosevelt, but they want something in return. Their support is on @ quid pro quo basis. In consideration cf throwing their support to the Democratic nominee, provided he is @ progressive of the type of Roosevelt, they want Minnesota Democrats to support their state machine. The Farmer-Labor party would have the Democrats refrain from entering a state ticket. Charles B. Cheney, veteran political writer of the Minneapolis Journal, in @ special dispatch to the New York Times, has this interesting comment “It has been the dream of the Minnesota Democratic organiza: tion to absorb the Farmer-Laborites as once it engulfed the Popu- lists. The present task is more difficult, however. Labor party sprang full-armed to a leading position in its first campaign ten years ago, when it elected Henrik Shipstead to the It was a secession from the Republican party, and most of its rank and file are set traditionally against the Democrats who for ten years have been a poor third in State campaigns, waiting in vain for the hyphenated party to break apart and founder. Instead, the agricultural depression has built up the Farmer-Labor party as an instrument of protest, until now it has the governor, leutenant governor, one United States senator and a member of the lower house within its ranks. “In this campaign, as one leading Democrat expresses it, the Farmer-Laborites have them ‘on the spot.’ At the ‘The Farmer- Governor Olson has League faction has seen fit to cast its fortunes and fling its banner under crats in this presidential year presents a much more complicated problem than obtains in Minnesota. In Minnesota, the Republicans have a fairly wy | harmonious political organization and the party is united behind one group of candidates. In North Dakota, the Republicans are hopelessly divided between two distinct sets of candidates. is a distinction without much difference. Forks burn his political bridges behind him and accept the Democratic nomination for governor. In this event, he might prove a sort of a political Pied Piper of Hamlin, drawing many Leaguers into the Democratic pri- maries next June to the detriment of his old Nonpartisan League associates Opposed to this plea of practical politics are those who spurn ex- They are impressed with the 84,000 votes which graced the They smell victory in the offing. Day and night they offer up political supplications for a simon-pure Democratic acceptable to those leaders who fought the battles of Democracy in North Dakota when only one or two were gathered together in the faith. and wipe the slate clean and put North Dakota's credit in better shape, is gram initiated by the League, completed and operated and tolerated under with The Tribu policies, x : A Salute Ppestapeny texpiarhgen fae (New York World-Telegram) ibs drapusop gc igre A most engaging story is that of Dr. in lieu of felonies, be-| Grace Murray, 84-year-old traveller attacked President Hoover and expressed hope that there will be a ‘progressive’ candidate to vote for. make speeches endorsing Governor Roosevelt. the bulk of the Farmer-Labor vote is ready to go to Roosevelt any- He is all ready to go out and It is conceded that rnor Olson would make it hard for the Democrats to make an aggressive fight against him.” somewhat different. The Nonpartisan hat the problem of fusion with Demo- Generally speaking, this division i ranks of the North Dakota Democrats Nonpartisans, nominating a ticket at table, in spots at least, to the League. f the type of T. H. Thoresen of Grand e 8 in that ticket’s pedigree. It must be many Democrats back into the fold who had lost their identity under the fusion arrangement with both the I. Vv. A. and League factions, These have brought their old political hich sat in the tents of Twichell and nibbled at the political provender, cannot see such a man as Thoresen as Others, who once basked in the political triumphs of the League, believe such a nomination spells certain victory, provided Thoresen would accept, if the tender were made. It is hard to break off political associations ‘This process of purging parties and getting the boys back in the old political pews and into their home parishes may be @ slow one, but that such a readjustment is at work is apparent to the Such a contingency is not at all In between these two factions is another clique in the Democratic ranks demanding a new deal completely. They would like to see the Democrats nominate a man like Tracy Bangs of Grand Forks, with courage to clean house and strike at the very roots of what they think is North Dakota's political folly. These men want to abolish commissions. Go down the line the elimination of the industrial pro- that R. A. Nestos completed the mill ation, although elected on a platform “Lower taxes until its hurts the politicians” is the cry of this faction in the ranks of Democracy. ted at New Rockford this month and their deliberations will be of great import to this state. — —— who stepped from a plane on Satur- {day night at the Newark airport. Having started from Honolulu seven days before, she made the trip by fast boat and plane. Youth is the time for adventuring; old age is supposed to sit quietly with folded hands. So runs the accepted theory. ‘What delights us in Dr. Murray is that she refuses to accept any such ridiculous dictum. Hands are made to grasp things with—travel, experi- ence and adventure. It takes no more energy of body to sit in a plane or a ship than it does in an automobile. But it does take energy of spirit, and of that she has an astonishing amount. “One cannot just sit and be an old lady,” she said. Considering that she has crossed the Atlantic twenty times, the Pacific fifteen times, has taken @ 3,000 mile trip up the Amazon, has motored 2,000 miles in northern Japan and has vis- ited every country she could think of, she has more than proved her point. “Friday night,” she said, “we flew over the Sierras. I loved the great snowfields, stretching so smooth and white. “What I like best are rivers. I have seen all of the great rivers of the world. I feel that they are friends. “T am so glad I lived long enough for flying. I am fascinated by the lights of the towns blazing away be- low you like the lost constellations, ‘and the great beacon lights that guide the plane's way through the dark- ness.” ‘We salute Dr. Murray and wish her many happy landings. ARMY OF ARCHERS In 1339 half of England’s troops were archers, and by 1360 practically all of the archery troops were mount- ed. The men used a bow sbout five feet in length, and a three-foot are row. STICKERS inorder to have exactly 20 eres? That New Rookie Starts Well, Anyway! id H+} felwols toleelol UI By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association. During the past twenty years the American breakfast has changed. variety of foods which were taken in large amounts. Today breakfast for most people includes, if they eat anything, fruit, cereal, coffee, egg, and occasionally a small strip of bacon or ham. Women seem, how- ever, to have reduced breakfast mere- ly to fruit juice and coffee, and those who reduce may even eliminate fruit juice. Under present circumstances ce- reals have developed a place of in- importance in the breakfast menu. A committee of the American Public Health association has listed 190 cereal breakfast foods which have gradually invaded the field formerly controlled by whole wheat and oat- 410th hour...” New York, April 14.—It was close to the 410th hour of a dance marathon that has been going on hereabouts when I came upon this chapter out of the very book of desperation. The scene was just about what one might expect after some twenty days of more-or-less perpetual motion. Wilting partners seemed to melt through the steps of some strange somnambulistic stroll. Gawking cash customers stood or sat about making editorial comments and betting on the results. Smoke screened whole sec- tions of the place. Musicians in a key somewhere between futility and fatigue. # ‘There was one couple: an elderly woman and a youngish man. The woman, about 50, was stodgy, plump, bespectacled, maternal. The young man was strong, husky, well built. “Funny one, that,” commented my guide, “A mother and a son—you'll see ‘em listed as Catherine and Frank Ferri...” But it wasn’t funny. Mrs. Ferri has two small children. And no money. Frank ordinarily works at anything that requires manual labor. He hasn’t had work for weeks. The cupboards were bare. They heard of the mara- thon. There's a fat prize for the win- ner and something for those who hold out. ‘They were holding out—mother and son—while the band sagged through its monotonous program. On and on —in this oeaere tion waltz! * In Reverse New York is filled with Moscovitzes who become Mosses, and Robinsky’s who became Robins, and Platzbaums who became Platts. But the other day I came upon the first case of a chap who changed his name the other way. He is Julius Cohen, drama critic for the Journal of Commerce. Julius was born in Lon- don under the name of Gompertz. ‘When he started out, some years back and on another paper, he heard that a certain editor would allow no Sem- etic name to appear in the “by-lines.” ‘This annoyed him to such an extent that he took the name of Cohen—and the paper lived to display it many t imes, George's Biggest Hit ‘Which reminds me of a yarn I heard about George Kaufman, the playwright, George wanted to get up Fifth Avenue. A Hiberian parade was blocking traffic. He could not get through. There was but one thing to do: get into the street and march with the marchers. This he did. But Kaufman hasa beak that ranks somewhere between those of Cyranv and Jimmy Durante. For five blocks he was the hit of the parade. When he tried to leave it, having reached his destination, his fellow marchers protested. He tramped a few blocks more—and then promised to go all the way the next time. And escaped! ser 8 Study In Contrasts | In Bryant Park they're building 2 replica of Federal Hall for the Wash- ington Centennial. Looking on from their park bench FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: ’ Every brunette is willing to con- cede that a blonde is light-headed. front seats, the jobless throngs and the bums ask each other questions about Federal Hall and what it means. A white-haired, seedy looking fellow sits down and opens a ragged book of ‘Ingersoll’s sermons. A hollow square of skyscrapers leer down at the fragile skeleton. liantly red derrick scratches and screeches. i ‘Wonder what the historic dead would think of this panorama of mod- ern machinery . A bril- and the back- Hoover Dam will create the largest artificial reservoir in the world. will be about 115 miles long and will cover an area of more than 145,000 acres. ground ... as the Federal Hall re- Plica is put together, part by part? The | achievement of great moment; a very center of attraction! The replica be- comes a sentimental symbol, lost in a three-sided canyon. original must have been LARGEST RESERVOIR It meal served hot. A list prepared by Dr. Bailey of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station includes five barley prepara- tions, 29 corn products, 27 oat deriva tives, 14 rice products, 68 wheat prep- arations, 11 wheat bran preparations, and 21 miscellaneous products, ° ‘When cereals are finely ground they leave the stomach more rapidly than when they are in their crude form. The modern prepared cereal is much more easily digested than the lumps of oatmeal which were a part of the breakfast of an earlier day. Cereals are abundant in starch, in- clude a small amount of protein, all of them have about the same mineral ingredients, and their vitamins, ex- cept for the germ of the various grains, are not important. Notwithstanding this fact, the pro- moters of various special cereal prod- ucts are likely to place special em- phasis on the amount of some min- eral ingredient. Actually grains com- ing from different parts of the coun- try vary surprising in the amounts of such ingredients that they contain, ‘There was a time when it included a! beyond our incomes. = aro palatable, At gare useful is ich al Use of Cereal as = || est7 °"Sren i aoe a no pee its cient Breakfast Food [ent 20 00) Seeds, they form a Commended Suluable supplement to a varied diet, GERMANS ADVANCE On April 14, 1918, heavy fighting on the Lys front resulted in the capture of Merris and Vieux Berquin by Ger- the | man troops. British forces continued to hold Neuve Eglise against German attacks, but gains made on the flanks by the Germans rendered the town vulner- fable to assaults from three sides by nightfall and military experts regard- ed the town’s fall as inevitable. ‘American troops on the Toul sector were again attacked by German forces, but succeeded in beating them off after sharp fighting. More than a regiment of enemy troops participated in the attack. ‘The German long-range gun again bombarded Paris, but losses there were small. German troops in Finland occu- pied Hyving and were reported mov- ing on Helsingfors, unopposed by the Russian Red Guards in the vicinity. Finnish White Guards were report- ed alding the Germans. Barbs | >_<? ‘War may cost 70 per cent of the to- tal sum spent by the national govern- ment, but that still leaves 30 per cent for the politicians. eR OK The real trouble at Washington is that the government has been living . Al Capone is weary of prison life already, a news item says. Maybe he’s just learning that the hardest thing and it seems futile to make broad claims for differential mineral value, unless the special section of the coun- try from which the grain comes is known. ‘A survey of the entire field by the special committee of the American Public Health association indicates that cereal breakfast foods furnish energy at a reasonably low cost. They about money? 5 writer says. them think food comes first. to kill is time. * * A poet must have both ambition and fire, a critic says. And what * Few writers worry about clothes, a That's right. Most of (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) BEGIN HERB TODAY CAREY, an with her AUNT J ago’e west el NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI Geena was no denying that Su- san was in the black books of that autocrat, Mr. Claude Block. The owner and president of Chi- cago’s “most modern school of business” had not deigned to no- tice the girl since the unfortunate afternoon when she had had to re- pulse the unwelcome attentions of the loathsome manager of the Melo Iron Manufacturing Com- pany. The day came, however, when Susan was the only logical candi- date in the advanced class. Mr. Block, frowning intently, sum- moned her and safd in a cold, re- mote voice, “Ernest Heath, the architect, wants a temporary sec- retary. Go over there and see what you can do.” Susan, surprised, her thanks and fied. She was relieved to find that the office she sought was on the twelfth floor of a new and shining building. The marble corridors and glittering tors seemed to her fitting trappings for this world of great affairs she hoped to enter. “Mr, Heath?” Her own voice sounded much too loud to Susan in the cubby- hole of the outer office. Her feet sank into the dove gray carpi The walnut desk bore a blue blot ter and smoke colored curtains hung at windows framing a view of the lake. A spare, smartly dressed man about 45 stood in the doorway of a larger glass partitioned room bearing the word “‘Private" on the door. He eyed Susan appraising- ly and nodded. “Come in. Sit down. Hi, Pier- son!” he called to someone un- seen. “Bring a notebook and let Miss—er—try her hand at dicta- tion.” A colorless young man with a bookkeeper’s green eyeshade dis- figuring his brow came in and put down @ book and some freshly sharpened pencils, Susan stiffened herself. The ordeal was about to begin. stammered HEN Heath had finished rap- Ding out in crisp phrases se’ eral highly technical paragrapi in which the words “studding” and “fenestration” recurred, Su- gan was shown to a typewriter, given paper and carbon sheets, and told to “go ahead.” She thought Mr. Heath rather terrifying but on the whole kindly, and then forgot sbout bim entire- ly during the absorbed 15 min- utes in which she transcribed her difficult notes, She hoped no one was watching her as she 4 yyed one virgin sheet and began another. Looking laid the sheet down before him. He read it once and then, again with- out comment, Susan faltered, “It's all right, I hope.” Keen gray eyes surveyed her. A clipped voice said to her infinite relief: “Seems to be. You'll do, I think. First girl we've had in here in a week who could spell.” Susan felt as though a crown had been bestowed upon her. She drew a long breath. Mr. Heath went on to ask her to be there at 9 tomorrow. Twenty a week was tho salary and he didn’t know when Miss O'Connell would be back. She was ill. Susan un- derstood, didn’t she, that the posi- tion was temporary? Susan murmured “Yes,” and prayed a little prayer that Miss O'Connell’s recovery might be slow although, of course, infinitely sure, Aunt Jessie had been a careful guardian and Susan had been taught never to wish ill to anyone even at the expense of her own ad- vancement, She walked to the street car that evening on thin air. She thought, “I must wash my pink linen and clean my white shoes and give my- self a manicure tonight.” She re membered suddenly that she had promised to go to choir practice with Rose Milton and resolved to stop and confide the great news, eee Rs MILTON was not home yet, her mother told Susan. Rose was working at one of the big State street stores now. She was selling blouses and her ambition was to be- come @ buyer. Mrs, Milton, fat and comfortable in a gay summer dress, sat on the front porch fanning her- self. Susan faltered, “It's all right, 1 hope.” you didn’t like him much but that | cess to keep up the pose of injured Honestly, | parent. Then her ready smile broke the MAN HUNTER ‘BY_ MABEL -McELLIOTT. he would change that. Sue,” she continued in more ser!- ous vein, “you'd do well to encour- age that young man. He has a fu- ture, mark my words!” What did she care about Ben Lampman’s future, Susan thought disdainfully. Horrid, rude ‘ellow that he was! Not that she didn’t feel, deep down, a glow of pleas- ure at the implied compliment. But she tossed her head. “I've got a job,” she said, changing the subject. Mrs. Milton was instantly di- verted, flatteringly interested. “No!” she said, sqiling incredulously. Susan dimpled. “I won't be able to go with Rose tonight,” she ex- plained. “That’s why I stopped. I have a million things to do at home, getting ready.” ° ‘RS. MILTON clucked in sym- pathy, but when Susan rose to go she began to grumble a bit in good-natured fashion. a “You girls, nowadays,” she said. “I don’t know what's got into you. When I was your age nothing on earth would have induced me to break a date or pass up a bit of fun. Now you're all business wom- en, {f you please, and none of you “Come in and sit down,” she wheezed cordially, pushing some pillows back on the swing to make Toom for Susan. “I’ve got some lemonade on the ice so you're just in time Susan said really she couldn't but found herself presently sipping up suddenly, she was annoyed to see the moody young man of the eye-shade gasing at her curiously from the high stool on which he perched behind a partition. Strangely enough, this surveil lance put her on her mettle in- stead of making her more nerv- ous and the second transcript of the letter seemed to her perfect. Modestly she braved the fastness of Mr. Heath's private office, and Dy the cool refreshing beverage from a tall green glass. “Been seeing your young man lately?” Mrs, Milton asked, break- ing into Susan's reverie, ‘The girl flushed, “I don’t know who you mean.” Mrs, Milton rocked with delighted laughter. “Oh, I hear it’s a real billing! He stopped in here one night and raved to Rose for an hour. Said are thinking about getting married at all. It isn’t natural. Look at Rose! There's Terry Sullivan after her all the time to name the day. Ho has a good little business out in Oak Park. She could have a nice apartment and maybe a little car but will she? She will not. No, it you please, she must work up to the head of the department and get sent to Paris and I don’t know what all!” Mrs, Milton sniffed. _ a week #3 1982 ey NEA SERVICE We. through. “That's true enough,” she admitted. “But what I say is where does it all lead to? A woman's hap- Piest with a home and babies of her own. You're a bit younger than Rose, but you ought to be thinking about it, too. Careers!” She gave the word as sarcastic an intonation as her soft voice could afford. Susan giggled. She couldn't help it. Good-natured Mrs. Milton in a huff was just funny. “Anyhow, what's choir practice?” Susan demanded, rising to go. “You wouldn’t call that @ social occasion, would you? No young men there to beau us around. Nobody but Mr. Higgins and he's played the organ at St. Thomas’ since 1901.” A secret little smile played over Mrs. Milton’s round face, “Is that 80?” she demanded cryptically. “And who was telling you that?” Susan colored again. “I don't know what you mean,” she sald. Mrs. Milton permitted herself a knowing wink. “Why do you think Rose 80 anxious to get you there?” she asked slyly. “I haven't the faintest idea,” sald Susan, tossing her head. “She said they needed another soprano, that was all.” “Run along, run along,” clucked Mrs. Milton amiably, having pro- duced the effect she desired and enjoying the crimson discomfiture of Susan's yours face. “There'll he @ disappointed young man at that organ tonight, I’m telling you.” Susan fied, her hostess’ amiable mockery following her. ‘Why must it be someone she dis- Jiked who seemed interested in “You're all alike,” she finished | her? plaintively. Susan patted her plump shoul- der. “You don’t really mind, You just like to grumble,” she laughed. “You're as proud as you can be of the way Rose is getting on.” Mrs. Milton tried without suc- Why couldn’t her admirer be, in- stead of Ben Lampman, that golden youth, Robert Dunbar? Quickly she told herself she had better stop dreaming about that young man, once and for all! i diatienms (To Be Continued) & i ' 5) 4 :