The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1932, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Forgotten Man Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio speech financed by the manufactur- ers of a popular cigarette quite non- chalantly referred to the “forgotten man.” It was all done in the way of @ political aside. Suddenly it was caught up and the “forgotten man” is being discussed if not with the fer- vor of some past issues, the reference at least has given color to what might have been a very drab cam- paign. ‘Now comes the Chemical Founda- tion with a reprint of a speech on “The Forgotten Man,” rediscovered after 50 years. This address was given in 1883 by William Graham Sumner, then professor of political and social science in Yale university. The Yale University Press of New Haven, Conn., is republishing the speech because eyes are focused up- on the “forgotten man” whose vote may determine a national presiden- tial election. Professor Sumner described the forgotten man of 1883 and he does not differ much from the specie of 1932. Here is how he looked to the Yale scholar in the early ’80s: “He works, he votes, generally be prays—but he always pays— yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an oifice; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on. He contributes to the strength of parties. . . . He is strongly Patriotic. He is wanted when- ever, in his little circle, there is work to be done or counsel to be given. He may grumble some oc- casionally, but he does not fi quent the grocery store or ta! Politics at the tavern. Conse- quently, he is forgotten. He is a@ commonplace man. He gives no trouble. He excites no admir- ation. Therefore, he is forgot- ten. All the burdens fall on him or on her, for it is time to re- member that the “forgotten man” is not seldom a woman.” But what does Professor Sumner Propose for the forgotten man: “What the “forgotten man” needs, therefore, is that we come to a clearer understanding of liberty and to a more complete realization of it. Every step which we win in liberty will set the “for- gotten man” free from some of his burdens and allow him to use his powers for himself and for the commonwealth.” Not such a bad keynote for a 1932 Presidential campaign. Politics of India It 4s difficult for the western mind to appreciate the vagaries and mys- ticism of India’s problems. The con- test is between the Hindu castes. Complications between Brahman and the Untouchable are as obscure to most of us as they are inexplicable. These social antagonisms are firmly @ part of religious convictions. The caste system is an integral part of the Hindu belief. Christians may feel impatient and intolerant over India’s attitude on many social and economic problems. Gandhi knows that to make the western mind ap- preciate what really motivates his people is, generally speaking, impos- sible, He resorts to a hunger strike— @ fast unto death—and wins his point where finished argument and skill- ful logic fail. Such are the trends in India where Christian missionaries have found 00 | days. new political and social unit. Tem- porarily at least this situation has been avoided. Play Ball! Politicians, farm relief and Ma- hatma Gandhi will have to share the spotlight with the world series. It will be great relief to the nerves if not to the blood pressure, this sur- cease from depression and issues. How many home runs will the Bimbo make? Will another hero like “Pepper” Martin electrify the fans? New York or Chicago? That's the paramount issue for the next few The slogans of “Hang on to Hoo- ver” or “Roosevelt and Recovery,” will give place to “Soak 'Em” and “Slide, Kelley, Slide.” It will be a healthful reaction to a people whose tendency is to take themselves too seriously. Sports and baseball above all are great levelers—the banker and the plumber can root side by side and even indulge in a little back- slapping among themselves when a |favorite batter makes a “homer” with the bases full. Play ball! A Worthwhile Publication “Foreign Affairs,” a quarterly re- view devoted to a scholarly and non- partisan discussion of world condi- tions, is 10 years old this month and has celebrated the event in the pub- lication of a special anniversary number. This review was established under American auspices in the autumn of} 1922 for the purpose of “a sober and non-partisan review which would aid) in developing a reasoned American foreign policy and at the same time carry abroad authoritative expres- sions of American point of view on world problems.” Its sponsors believe that the pur- poses above stated have been well served. Undoubtedly this American review has not been without influ- ence in its field. Hamilton Fish Armstrong is its editor and such distinguished schol- ars as Elihu Root and John W. Davis are prominent officers. Newton Baker, George W. Wickersham, C. G. Dawes and others compose its edi- torial advisory board. The editors in this anniversary number frankly set forth in the fore- word the following: “The articles in Foreign Affairs do not represent any concensus of be- liefs. We do not expect that readers of the review will sympathize with all the sentiments they find there, for some of our writers will flatly disagree with others; but we hold that while keeping clear of mere va- garies Foreign Affairs can do more to guide American public opinion by a broad hospitality to divergent ideas than it can by identifying itself with one school.” That breathes a journalistic inde- pendence which is refreshing in these days of propaganda, ex-parte statements and the thunderings of reformers. Best of luck to the Amer- ican quarterly review, “Foreign Af- fairs.” Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policie Another Blow at the ‘Ins’ (New York Times) Wisconsin has committed sacrilege and rebelled against a prince of the blood. Governor Kohler, defeated in the primaries two years ago, beat Governor LaFollette in Tuesday's primaries. Senator Blaine has gone down before young Editor Chapple, whose rather fantastic campaign seemed directed mainly against the University of Wisconsin and the Progressives, regarded as budding’ Communists. He couldn’t be too ab- surd for voters sick of unemployment and depression and inclined to turn on the men in power. Mr. Hoover and national affairs had no part in the primary campaign. The presi- dent's name was scarcely mentioned. It was not deemed prudent to men- tion it. Governor LaFollette’s administra- tion was bitterly attacked and stren- uously defended. Failure to keep his promises, deception about the inci- dence of taxation for unemployment relief, high cost of government, strangling of business, his ingenuous desire to redistribute wealth were urged against him. They might have been urged in vain in ordinary cir- cumstances, but a large number of the voters, rural and urban, were not to be appeased. They were “agin the government.” And the Wiscon- sin system, by which a primary voter gets the ballots of all parties and votes the one he chooses, failed the LaFollettians this year. The Democrats, so long practically absorbed into the Progressives, came out with tremendous strength at the spring primaries. This allowed the conservative Republicans to win a majority of the delegates to the na- tional convention. Not since the birth of direct primaries had such a result occurred before. Under Re publican disguise, with Democratic the Progressives have long boen able e ssives have al rule the roost, when united. There g the “| oil): more ardent and loquacious addressed envelope is enclosed, ink. Lett KEROSENE (COAL OIL) AS A REMEDY From a symposium of our readers on the remedial use of kerosene (coal Cramp in Leg Being of sedentary habits, when I go trouting or hunting, cramps will suddenly develop during the night, a prominent knot forming in the leg muscles. I have often rolled out of bed to the floor, over to the stand, and seized the kerosene lamp, removing chim- ney, unscrewing burner and dab- bing the wick soaked kerosene 1 on the cramp. In two or three minutes this seems to bring re- lief and I go back to bed serene and happy. (J. Q.) This is harmless at any rate, and interesting if not convincing. It is not convincing to my mind, because so many readers have reported that they obtain relief from such leg cramps by merely pressing the balls jof the feet against the foot of the bed, or by getting out of bed and walking about on their toes for a few moments. Eczema Our eldest son broke out with eczema at the age of four months and in spite of medical care the trouble persisted—it was the weep- ing kind—until he was past two years old. From then until last winter (he is now twelve years old) he was free from it. But ow- ing to the depression we used a Great deal of oatmeal, which, I believe, caused it to break out again on both legs. We tried var- ious cures to no effect— Notwithstanding the depression; —but on using the kerosene no- ticed an immediate improvement. Both legs are now healed and give him no trouble so long as he re- members to grease the spots be- fore going in swimming. If he fails to do that there is some irri- tation. (Mrs. J, M. C.) Several readers have reported appar- ent benefit in obstinate eczema from application of kerosene (coal oil, re- fined petroleum). First Aid for Burns Kerosene oil applied to a burn will relieve the excrutiating pain immediately and prevent blister- ing. The soothing effect is like magic. If the feet or hands are burned submerge them in the olt. If face or body sop it on gently and do not cover only keep the burned surface wet with the oil until relieved. (Mrs. C. F. 8.) The lady may be quite right about everything except the prevention of blistering. If a burn is a second de- gree burn nothing under heaven can prevent blistering. If a burn is a third degree burn, nothing can prevent scar formation, Of course intelligent treat- ment from the first to the last will prevent EXCESSIVE blistering or scar production in any burn, Perhaps we should explain the terms: First degree burn is merely reddening of the skin, whether from flame, sun, scalding or contact with hot surface; second de- gree is blistering; third degree burn is charring or destruction of skin or deeper tissues. Several other readers submitted legends or second hand reports of re- markable remedial uses of Kerosene oil, but we must exclude hearsay and confine this symposium to first hand personal experiences. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- ters should be brief and written in No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper, practice women 35 to 40 years of age bearing a first child usually have a normal, easy delivery. Do you feel like showing them you're not an old woman? The Ignorance of the Wiseacre Maybe my intelligence is of a low order, but I must differ with you on worms and sugar. The common tape- worm prefers meat and sugar in his diet. I suggest that the combination in quantity of the two makes a good culture medium for the worm to start, particularly in a weakened condition of the human body. ... (8. E. M.) Answer—You said it. Your intelli- gence is evidently of a high order, but your ignorance is as deep as that of all the wiseacres. A tapeworm can “start” only when the human host in- gests the larva of the worm in raw or underdone beef that happens to be “measly,” that is, infested with the tapeworm larvae. If tapeworm is fond of sugar, it is odd that the adult stage Prefers the alimentary canal of man and the larval stage the muscles of cattle, It doesn’t matter what food tapeworm prefers. The quantity of food necessary to maintain a tape- | worm is insignificant in any circum- stance. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) with Gilbert Swan New York, Sept. 29—Any poker player should be able to find his way SEM man’s body. Ponte IO} S| 48 Roof’s edge. 68 To enliven. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Birthmark I have a nevus A pinenerk, on My, back below my shoul le. Can you tell me any way to conceal this ritoas fete of oe Pola show- gt not cover it with a disc of black court plaster and pre- States, or so I am informed by an anonymous contributor. For instance, there is Pay Down, Mo.; Draw, Tex.; Bet, Ky.; Passing, Vt. and Ante in the same state. North Carolina can lay claim to Straits, Chip, Call and Bluff. To say nothing of our own Flushing, N. Y. ee * LITTLE KNOWN CLUBS In calling attention to the various unusual clubs to be found in Manhat- tan, I have somehow overlooked the Puzzlers and the Autographers. And, it seems, they feel hurt. ‘The Puzzlers meet at various inter- vals with a collection of charades and anagrams, crosswords and mental twisters. Each puzzle presented must be origina and, usually, tough. The hardest knots are left for an annual convention which draws puzzle hounds from every corner of the na- tion. Alphabetical teasers are the most popular, with rebuses and acros- ties in greatest favor. x 4 JOHN HANCOCKS IN DEMAND The autograph hounds now approx- imate a public menace. No public figure can escape them. Theater lob- bies are packed with them. They comb the streets and the hotels. They watch the newspapers and crash par- ties. What they intend to do with these signatures after they get them is something beyond this particular ken. , I hear that the football games will be invaded as the baseball lots already have been. The inevitable note-book flashes forth and the ery of “Won't you please sign your name here?” never stills. The Autograph Club, it appears, stimulates interest in such goings on. Fountain pen and pencil makers are not disinterested. The club now de- mands personal appearances of fa- vored stars of stage and screen. Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks, Lilyan Tashman and a dozen others already have made personal appearances, j * * AN AIRY ACT, MAYBE between parties staged in her honor and went on within some twelve hours of her arrival. Eddie Lowe, her husband, is an old San Jose, Cal., lad, in case you didn’t know. xe & BROADWAY HOME-COMER from Hollywood, appeal his fill of the movies after one pic- ture. I’m told that he spent much of eee lying under @ tree reading ‘While saving his movieland jobs for the future, Cohan dragged out his fa- mous commentary: “When you're away from Broadway, you're merely camping out.” Broadway, as a matter of fact, found it hard to swallow the notion that its Georgie would desert for the movies. Yet he gave orders to have his famous office closed and locked. Well, all the old help is back and the office does business in the same old stend while George prepares to put on a couple of shows, BULGARIA SURRENDERS On Sept. 29, 1918, Bulgaria uncondi- tionally surrendered to the allies. The armistice was signed at Saloniki and it was agreed that hostilities should officially cease at noon on the follow- ing day. American and British troops were successful on a 30-mile front from St. Quentin to the Sensee river. The al- lies captured Bellicourt and Nauroy. The English division crossed the Scheldt and captured the garrison of Bellenglise. It was reported that the Somme dis- trict had been entirely freed of Ger- man strongholds, if Barbs | ———_+ A British tennis player, appear- ing on the court in shorts, shocked o— COPYRIGHT 1931, BY INTERNATIONAL SYNOPSIS Bob Harkness, a respected ranch- ec ig the Mexican border town of Verdi, is “El Coyote,” the masked bandit and bitter enemy of Paco Morales, self-appointed ruler of the border country, “El Coyote’s” iden-. tity is known only to Ann Reed, an entertainer at a notorious resort. She is in love with him and acts as his spy. “El Coyote” wreaks venge- ance on Morales for his unjust treat- ment of the ranchers. There is a high price on “El Coyote’s” head, but all search has proved futile. Bob's foreman and friend, Ted Rad- cliffe, is in love with Adela, thé Spaniard’s beautiful niece. Jito, Mo- rales’ ward, is jealous of Ted. Major Blount of the U. S. Cavalry sum- mons Bob and Ted to his headquar- ters to hear one of “El Coyote’s” lieutenants reveal his identity. Bob goes outside. Two shots ring out. Bob returns and, shortly after, the informer is carried in, mortally wounded. He dies without a word. On the way home, Bob collapses from a wound in his side. Ted real- izes the truth. Bob sends for Ann, Against Bob's wishes, Ted calls in Which reminds me that La Tash- man arrived here the other day for a movie theater appearance and the act in which she finally made her bow IDIE SHERI OT MECIOIN} 11 IPle ISMBEIN) was written enroute. While in an air- around a fraction of the United plane, if you please. It was rehearsed a s Proverb Puzzle a e HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle us pols 1 Most 1 ee — = male : nock, tant fiuld in SUNDER BURG] 22m. 24 Choking bit. 26 Meat pie. 5To imitate. [RIE (RIOIMIE| 27 Flatfish (pl.). 8Green spot in, “ISITIAIRITIEIRISMEDIEITICIR] 28 Saucy. A domert AMBSITIAITIEIDEEBIEMBEIRIA) 30 Box. 13 Inner sole. INE MEE VIE RMEPIUIL ORES! 32 Garden tool. 14 Imbecile: TAICIT MME RMP Ic IRI! 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CHAPTER XLII “Bob,” asked Adela, “if El Coys ote’s cause is just, why does he plun- der like a bandit?” “He uses the best tools and meth- _ods he finds, like any other wise leader. If the law cannot uphold him in what he does, he must go outside the law. Don’t forget that every great revolutionist was first a bandit. It is only when he wins that he becomes patriot and liberator. Here, where Morales is law, every enemy of his becomes an outlaw.” “That means, then, there will be open war?” Bob-nodded silently. The major’s wife was showing signs of impatience. “Nobody asks me for my opinion, and that’s a great mistake, for here it is, The trouble with this border country is that it has too many saviors. Off and on, between transfers, I’ve been here thirty-five years, I know I don’t look that old, thank you all very much. ‘Well, every year I’ve spent here has been oversupplied with saviors of one kind or another. Morales thinks he’s one; the government thinks it’s one; perhaps El Coyote does, What they need, these people, is to be left alone. Give them peace from ideas, Drop it all! Let them cultivate their lands, herd their animals, and have their babies, although God knows they do very well in that last matter, But let them alone.” J Bob smiled. “Dear lady, I think that is exactly what El Coyote would like to do—to see them left alone.” “But if he breaks Morales’s power, will he let thém alone, or will it be just an exchange of slave drivers?” “I think in that event El Coyote would be well content to disappear.” “You're so conversant with his plans, if you weren't so lazy, I'd suspect you of being El Coyote.” Bob's amused eyes never changed. “1 wonder just what kind of bad tan I'd make. Fitst of all I’d kid- fap the major and hold him for ran- soi,” Aunt Clara gave her baritone chuckle, “Who do you think would ransom him? Me—after the atrocious bridge that man has foisted on me for thirty years? You tell your kid- naping band to come over any time, Bob. I'll leave the door unlocked, I'll even have the major’s bag packed,” in high derision, wondering,” he told her, “what I wouldn’t give to be just your age and have the dreams your years give, and perhaps to know again what love is like.” “That settles it. We've got to go before he sets it to music. Love and dreams and everything. I can stand cavalry profanity and modernistic painting, but middle-aged poetry—” She rose and dusted the ash from her dres: influence, rancher’s check. “Get well, soon, old. friend, and I'll tell you another story —perhaps a love story. leave you to find for me the happy ending.” some more of our were shocked during the last few years by Wall beste 9 igs One of the newest of the “health juices” is extracted from cranberries. the ease with which the Periodically, there ought to be some agitation toward changing the name * * If want a really hair-raising story, go and listen to @ bald-headed barber. x * * Don’t worry if you haven't got the Price of a haircut. Write a poem. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Jazz is not to be decried and torn down. TI love it and I want it to be in good taste—S. L. Rothafel, theater magnate. 5 ke * Our present form of economic struc- ture must provide employment, hap- piness and a decent standard of living for the population, or it will not sur- vive.—Charles M. Schwab, steel execu- tive. * ke * We must all exert ourselves to the utmost, striving to stimulate all favor- able factors and to make the inevit- able definite turn come as soon and with as much security as possible.— Roy D. Chapin, secretary of commerce. ek eH Not one of the complaints (against me) contains the statement of any person that I have been false to the trust which the people imposed upon me at two elections by overwhelming GAY BANDIT yf the BORDER. : a by TOM —. MAGAZINE 02, INC, 4 DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES ‘SYNDICATE, INC. Bob looked at Adela. “This, young lady, should be a warning and a lesson, See to what depths the high passion of young love must come at last.” Adela smiled. “I’m terribly fright- ened, but I know that if anyone threatened the major, Aunt Clara would be the first to scratch.” “Hear, hear,” applauded that lady, Bob’s eyes softened, “I’m just Aunt Clara dropped her cigarette. “Adela, come out of this Adela laid her hand against the And I'll “There'll be a happy ending, some- how. Never doubt it, Adela mia.” But before that night was over, the hope of any happy ending was farther away than ever before. For it was on that evening Bob had sent Ted over to Mendoza’s to bring. Ann Reed out to the hacienda, “Ann has some information,” he told Ted. “She won’t trust it even to Manuel. I’ve sent word that you would come for her.” in the little roadster Ted came for her just before sunset. As he circled the driveway at Mendoza’s a Mex- ican stood eagerly watching from among the palms in the patio. He waited in patient immobility among the shadows until Ted and the girl entered the roadster, then he drove rapidly out toward the hacienda of Paco Morales, Not until she was seated on Bob's porch and the cigarettes lighted did the girl begin. Then, as she sat there smoking, Ann told them of the visit of Morales and of his seeking for information of El Coyote. Through it all Bob smiled silently. “I think the old devil suspects,” Bob said at last. “Well, unless he moves quickly, his suspicions won't help him, Manuel and I are laying plans of our own, What else is new, little oracle of the border?” She turned toward Radcliffe. “There was something 1 learned that’ may interest you. You know, they talk much of you over at Mendoza’s. They talk of your strength and of the time you threw Jito, and always they talk as if sometime you and he are bound to fight again. One night there was a man, a lawyer, over from Sonora. He sat with two others at our table, and for a time Mendoza was with him. When they spoke your name this man from Sonora remembered something about you. I made him talk—it’s never| very hard to make you men talk, He told me that some years ago a piece of land had been transferred from father to son, and the records of it were entered with his law firm, He said that the land was in your name.” Bob leaned forward. “What did he call the land?” “He called it the Esperanza prop- erty.” “Esperanzal" Bob's gray eyes sparkled. “Good Lord, that holds two of the best waterholes in this part of the country.” He drummed with his fingers on the porch rail, “It would be too good,” he mur. mured, Ted’s own eyes were bright with excitement. “That was the name,” he cried. “That was the name dad used the last night we talked, But how would it get transferred to me?” majorities—Mayor Jimmie Walker of New York. JUST FOOIN’ The forest measuring worm, when alarmed, will stand out so straight and still from a limb thet even the birds think him 9 small twig and pass him by. STICKERS Fie See win Son ea older than a dog, but now he is only three times 2s old. How old isthe dog? FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: .U. 8. PAT. OFF. Holders of preferred stock are not as common as they used to be. GILL “I can only guess,” Bob replied. “Your father must have transferred it before the crash came. He must have bought that tract when he was laying plans to irrigate the valley, and Morales never knew. That’s the best of it. Morales, of course, thought it went up in smoke with the rest of those concessions. Won't that old octopus squirm when he learns that one hundred thousand acres of the best range land he has been using belongs to you!” “But I still don’t understand. Why couldn’t anyone have bought it? Why did Morales take the chance of losing it?” “No one could have bought it, be- cause it wasn’t for open sale. To get it you had to have first a concession from the government. Your father got that concession long ago with Morales’s influence when they were partners. But neither Morales nor I knew he actually bought any land. Then, through Morales’s treachery, your father lost those concessions, but in between he must have made fast to that one tract of land, the Esperanza. Mcanwhile, Morales has gone on using it, as he uses dozens of others, preferring that it remain the property of the Mexican govern- ment and without expense to him.” Suddenly he stopped. “That is, of course, if it’s all true. Who told you this?” “I can't remember. He wrote his name and the law firm down for me. I have his card in my room.” Ted looked at his friend. “This means as soon as you're better I leave for Sonora, If that land is really mine, I’m going to start a little squeezing on my own side of the line. Morales will find he’s got a new neighbor.” But Don Bob had already risen in his chair. “If the tale’s true it will be a bad blow for Morales’s dream; of empire. Oh, it’s too good to wait for! Let’s ride over with Ann. I want to see that name. Then I can do some telegraphing to an amigo in Sonota, He'll tell us quick enough.” The girl looked at him in quick concern, “Are you able to drive te Mendoza’s?” Bob's voice was confident. “Dear girl, I've recovered. You've been the best little doctor in the world.” He went inside, strapped on his shoulder holster, and led them down the steps. In the darkness as they drove up at Mendoza’s none noticed the long limousine parked in the shadow of the patio. Before they reached the door Bob stopped. “Ann better not be seen with me. You two go in ahead. I'll take a table and Ted can get that card from you and join me.” She led Radcliffe down the long, darkened hall, and throwing open the door of her room, turned on the light. “Sit down 2 moment,” she said and, closing the door, stepped behind the tapestry that hung before her small dressing-room. In a mo- ment she had returnd with = card, but as the man rose to go she shook her head. “I’ve got to sing soon, but 1 want to talk to you now for five minutes while you're here alone. It’s about you.” She reached for the spangled dress and a pair of stock- ings, then disappeared behind the tapestry, and Ted heard her kicking off her shoes, “I wanted to warn you that you're ell me +” came the voice, “Morales suspects you arg in love with his niece, He's afrast she is beginning to love you.” “How do you know?” For a moment he heard only the soft rustle of silk, then she answered: “Morales himself, Two days ago he came here, He offered me money to entangle you, so that she would pute you. 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