The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1932, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) ’ Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) SHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Those Ministerial Showers | | system are revealed, may decree that The depression is reviving a very} nteresting custom among churches. specially is this true in rural cen- ers. Congregations short on cash ind that gifts of flour, beef, pork, anned goods, vegetables and cloth- ng are acceptable. Rey. Emil Benzon recently left Bis- narck to assume leadership in a vural church. Following the recep- ion his wife was taken to the church yarlors where she was shown an ar- vay of food to stock the family arder. This generation may smile at such 1 situation, but many of us are old snough to remember when the show- ‘ for the minister's family was a allowed institution. Often the mem- vers of the family were arrayed in he splendor of clothes contributed ny the congregation. Sartorial qual- ties of the garments were not al- ways suited to members of the cloth. Church clubs gathered, too, to fill varrels and boxes for the distant nissionaries. Clothes were dispatch- ‘d to the banks of the Ganges which «should have been routed to those working in Arctic regions. But what ‘un they had cramming the cases sound for distant lands. The list Rev. Benzon gave to The Tribune in a most interesting letter Somprised articles which anyone would be pleased to receive, such as dressed chickens and meats canned py the congregation's crack cooks. The tables in the church parlors tairly groaned under their load. That was a warm reception on the shreshold of a cold winter. Well managed, the church shower S not so bad an institution after all. Tt fell into disuse a decade or so ago because money was an easier medium of payment for spiritual services, but with hard times many ministers wel- come payment in kind as well as in cash. The State Salary Mess Voters of the state should be con- vinced now what a mess of things results when they attempt to ab- rogate to themselves the task of law- makers. In voting a 20-per-cent re- * duction of salaries, the voters have precipitated a situation which only the courts can solve. Some boards who employ secretar- ies draw no salaries. Under a strict interpretation of the law passed at the polls in November, these men cannot draw a penny. At Grand Forks, for instance, the manager of the mill can receive about $800 a year. Presidents Kane and Sheppard of the two institutions of higher education would each get $2,400 a year, less than is paid sev- eral city superintendents of schools. ‘The law also provides that all fees must be turned into the general fund. Thousands are paid yearly to the state highway fund from the sale of license tags. Was it the object of the loosely drawn salary slash act to have these fees diverted from road funds to general funds? Other fees collected for specific purposes might easily, under a broad construction of the initiated laws, be diverted to the general fund. These and many other issues must be determined through court action. Fortunately s legislature will meet | in a few weeks and the kinks can be straightened out. The Golden Rule Diet The Golden Rule Foundation, an 50 | cause, THE molasses, coffee for adults and milk for chikiren. For lunch we would have rice and tomato, bread and butter, apple sauce, tea for adults and milk for children. Dinner would consist of split pea; soup with croutons, baked salmon loaf with white sauce, baked pota- toes, buttered carrots, bread and but- ter and chocolate cream pie, with milk for the children. By following these menus for a week, according to this organization, the average citizen can save enough to justify a little larger charity con- tribution. This probably is true with many but the proposal has another virtue. It probably would improve} the average of health. Doctors assert, and probably with that the average American digs his grave with his teeth; that appetite is the worst enemy of long- evity. Diet rnd grow thin has become a Standard slogan in America and thousands pay for instruction as to how to do it. Diet for charity's sake would be no less beneficial to the in- dividual and the effects would be} Write Your Own Tax Bill! BISMARCK TRIBU INE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932 NEWS NOTE : ATLANTIC CITY COUNCIL PROPOSES TAX ON SURF BATHERS TO FILL EMPTY TREASURY! more far reaching. next tackle the primary law. past, but they ers, when the costs of the primary they can select party candidates at no expense to themselves. Savings effected by abolition of the primary law are placed at sums ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 a biennium. Burleigh county jury lists were so ancient in some respects that men were summoned for service who did not reside in the county. It is to be hoped that the facts on the present jury procedure in Burleigh will be productive of speedy and too-long- delayed reforms. Few congresses have known so well in advance public opinion on thost of the vital issues than the present lame duck session. Still, there is the old chronic tendency to ignore mani- fest public demands. Well, whatever else is said about the forgotten man, the election re- turns showed that he did not forget to vote. 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 policies. Ducking the Issue (M. E. Tracy in New York World- Telegram) Speaker Garner asked for a wal- lop and got it. Outside of that everything 1s all right. Nothing has been lost, because nothing could have been gained. Had the repeal resolu- tion passed the house it would have died in the senate and we should have been obliged to wait until March 4 for effective action, just as we are now. As a matter of common sense con- gress ought to obey instructions. As a matter of politics it won't. That is why this will be the last lame duck congress. The people are tired of hold-over senators and representatives who won't carry out orders, Also they are tired of unnecessary discussion. What a roar there was when dry members of the house discovered that only forty minutes would be al- lowed for gab. They demanded three hours and offered to compromise on two, denouncing what they called “gag rule” as unthinkable in con- nection with such an important is- sue. To hear their protest one would never guess that the country had been talking about prohibition for the last 13 years. Even the 40 minutes proved a waste of time. Not a word was said but had been said at least 100 times, and not a mind was changed in or out of congress. It was just a stall for time, not with the hope of accomplishing any- thing but to postpone the agony of defeat. : Every one knows what the out- come will be, knows that nothing can stop modification and repeal once the new administration takes charge. But politics is politics. If we faced new or unexpected problems there would be virtue in prolonged debate, even at the risk of the ci ‘We know what we are up against, although we may not agree as to causes or cures. We know that things can’t remain as they are with- out inviting disaster. We know that the people have voted to try some- thing different. ‘Well, why not quit the kicking and try it? It is a travesty on human intel- ligence to hold a nation back for three months simply because anti- quated laws and customs make it ble. years hence we can play another. 4 they save to the poor. themselves pay mute es may have toast with | opinion. Democracy cannot function on any other basis, Franklin changed and certain measures adopt- ed. It is the obvious duty of the ad- ministrat and the members. of congress now in office to ‘and not obstruct the popular gov- closed, the verdict has Tendered and it becomes the ition now in power . Otherwise representative it fails. case is responsibility of those who serve, There are evidences that the North} Dakota Taxpayers’ Association will} There have been efforts to repeal it in the have always been frustrated. Powers swept into office in November are firm believers in letting the people rule, but the vot-! prolonged distress, but that is not) The political game ended, or should have ended, November 8. Four Between times we should think of what is best for the country, not in our opinion but in the country’s they lost or won in the re- cent election, to heed the national pronouncement, especially with re- gard to those questions which admit | never taking a poe no doubt. | INDES, SO BRUNETTES A BETTER BREAK ?--- Signed letters pertaining to personal self-addressed envelope is enclosed. in 4nk. No reply can be made to tions. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, Letters should be brief and written queries not conforming to instruc- Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. DO YOUR WINTER BASKING IN THE NOSE-OPENING RAYS Leonard Hill, the English physiolo- gist who has done so much to clarify our ideas about fresh air, foul air and ventilation, has recently found that the rays from an electric fire or dark source of heat produce conges- tion of the nose and a feeling of stuffiness in persons who have a de- flected septum or some other chronic nasal obstruction. HQ believes the prickly sort of heat ‘one feels on facing an electric fire is due to these “nose closing” rays, which he says may be screened ;| out by a sheet of glass between the | head: fire and the skin but not by cello- phane or gelatin. Then the physiologist finds that other rays, which he calls “nose opening” rays are given off by an | ordinary incandescent lamp and pass | through glass, and these “nose open- ing” rays counteract the effects of the “nose closing” rays. He further observes that if the skin is wet with perspiration it is pro- tected against the “nose closing” ;Tays. The same effect is produced by the vapors that rise from a bowl of water set in front of the electric fire. Glass absorbs most of the “nose closing” rays and permits the “nose opening” rays to pass through. Hill Says the “nose opening” rays belong to a group between 20,000 and 30,000 angstroms, in the region of the short | infra-red rays. Sources of heat such as the open | fire or gas fire are pleasant largely because they give off plenty of the “nose opening” rays. ; The suggestion to place a bowl of water in front of the electric heater, in order that the water vapor may shut off the “nose closing” rays and let the “nose-opening” rays pass through, is in line with the standard | practice of evaporating water in ar- | tificially heated atmosphere. Much of the discomfort and ill health caused by overheated air, “foul” air, “vitiated” air, ete. is due to the ex- | cessive dryness produced by stove or | furnace heating. | In the ordinary dwelling during the months “when artificial heating is necessary, many gallons of water should be evaporated daily, two or three gallons for each room, and when this is done a household tem- perature of 68 degrees or less will be found as comfortable as 70 degrees or | higher in the dwelling where the air is very dry. In order to evaporate a sufficient quantity of water it is necessary either to have a special humidifying system built into the house, or else have open reservoirs of water on or behind each radiator or in each air register. These tanks must be equip- ped with many yards of absorbent, wicking in folds hanging in the wa- ter. Such an arrangement freely { evaporates water at the temperature of the radiator or air register. Mere open pans of water are of little value. It is scarcely worth while to eva- porate a few quarts of water in a dwelling. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Do Young and Be Young Quite a while ago you had some-; thing in your column about the health: value of somersaults. I cut it out, intending to try it out, but somehow it was mislaid ... I have a Sales enjoyment in such things. (G. 8.) Answer—A half dozen rolls before tion. I waited two days, until I de- veloped a severe headache, and then I had to resort to an enema and physic, which gave me immediate re- Nef... @. R. L) Answer—It is a question of psychology. As long as you believe headache can be so relieved you will believe it is caused that way, and you can’t break the physic or con- stipation ‘habit. As long as you be- lieve headache is so caused, you will probably feel rotten whenever there is any little notion in your mind that your “bowel does not seem to function,” for you will get an anxiety lache. That is why I say in the booklet (copy of which will be mail- ed any victim of the habit who sends a dime and a stamped envelope bear- ing his address) “The first five days are the hardest.” If you're going to become panicky and imagine you're in for some dire sickness after two your old granny habit. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) i Of these three things—wine, wom- en and song—I place first song, my work. But women and wine—they are the furniture of the house— Feodore Chaliapin, Russian basso. x * x The ability of the press to inform and educate the people is one of the safeguards of the democratic form of government.—Louis Wiley, busi- ness manager, The New York Times. * * * If parents taught children nothing worse than the story of Santa Claus, or three days, better not try to break we would have an ideal civilization. —Dr. Max Schoen, department of psychology, Carnegie Institute of Technology. ** ® Here I am out of a job, and you folks are all celebrating—Walter Johnson, former star pitcher and manager of the Washington Sena- tors, at testimonial dinner marking his retirement. ee I don't want to make too much money—it might prejudice my views. —Rep. F. H. LaGuardia. of New ail defeated in the November elec- tion. if Barbs _—si| eo oe There are better ways of brighten- ing up Yuletide than by putting open-flame candles on Christmas trees. ** * Business must be on the ‘up- FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: iowa GLADYS PARKER Carefully prepared Christmas packages are bound to please. HORIZONTAL 1 Values. 6 Shovel. 11 Legally excessive. 12To cut for insertion into a mortise. 13 Schoolmaster. 15 Important INEM Florida fruit [Siam—SiA‘O) crop (pl.). TEISITIY] 18 Bad. 19 Gibbon. 21 Male ancestor. 22 Males. 23 Medium-sized —_ pad. sofas. 48 Before. 27 Frost bite. 49 Bones. 28 To predestine. 50 Branch of 30 Dormant. mechanics 32 Produces as a 53To abridge. clear profit. 36 Ho 33 Cyma. 34 Shelter, 38 Newly elected vice-president 2 59 Robbed U. 8. A. 41 Stir. - ~ 42Clothed in VERTICAL ermine. 1To cause to 45 Prophet. remember. 46 Rubber, wheel breakfast, and roll ‘em back again before retiring at night. This is ex- cellent for every long distance sit- ting champion. By-laws of the Somersaultauqua will be mailed on request. Inclose a stamped envelope bearing your address. Somersaults are beneficial for old curmudgeons| who are suffering from dignity. Victim of Nervous Imposition Your column is a joy and one of my chief reasons for taking the pa- neurotics and your opinion of them aad me utmost delight ... (A. C.| Answer—It is the victims of nerv- thy. The friends, ters, associates, ehildren are the teal sufferers. »| I read several times the pamphlet you sent me and I believed what you contend could We accom I went along all right for two months xative. Then one day my bowels did not seem to func- | U.S. President-Elect Answer to Previous Puzzle MAINT TOUMALE'S) COMMS COR Tie mia) Pour! 17 Pertaining to nodules, 20 Devoured, 23 Floor of glass furnace, 24 To come in. 25 Funeral oration. ] 26 Prepared lettuce. 29 God of the sky, JEIVIEAL : [EIA indigo. 2609 pounds ilkworm. > Small fish 6 Place of business. 7 By 4 Collection of facts, 49 Puts on 6 Motor. 13 Whe won lant U, president election? 14 Above 16 Ireland the wheel “A Opverite of . from the ber | bs go OF rn fad e number jobholders who are these days “to devote fall time to private business in- terests.” ‘ * * * Small boys should be allowed to gat as much as they can,.declares a London scientist. This won't entail much alteration in the average small boy's diet. * * # A town in Germany has in- stalled rubber lamp-posts. That should make it easier for rev- elers to bend them down to light their cigarets. oe oe Ok The English are much more hard- ened to adversity than are Ameri- cans, says Noel Coward, the English actor-playwright. Maybe Britain’s reluctance to pay_its war debt to America is just a generous effort to toughen us up a bit. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) CHARITY RACKETEERS New York, Dec. 10.—There is small chance for Faith and Hope when Charity is so badly buffeted about by Broadway's chiseling racket-mongers. A great number of worthy chari- ties since the depression ‘spawned its jobless thousands, have inadvertent- ly given the petty operators an op- portunity of lining their own pockets at the expense of the hungry. * * * BIG-HEARTED LADS ‘The latest to draw complaints from the theater belt is a scheme con- trived by illegitimate ticket scalpers. They buy up blocks of seats at spe- cial rates. These they sell to clubs, fraternal orders or individuals claim. ing that the funds will go to some good cause. They boost the price from 50c’to $1.00 per ticket. The unwary are taken in, believing that they are helping the poor while en- joying a theater performance. * ee TESTIMONIALS NO MORE Something resembling a death Geraldine Foster, pretty young clerk in the office of Dr. Hum- phrey Maskell disappeared on Saturday. Three days later, het roommate, Betty Canfield, notifies Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt. Harry Armstrong, the miss- ing gitl’s tiance, had not heard from her since Friday. Dr. Mas- kell says he returned to his office Saturday to find Geraldine gone. At the Foster apartment, Colt | dine had_ quarreled with the doctor. The Commissioner finds ; an old-fashioned key in the pocket | of Geraldine’s coat and part of a | blackmail note, presumably in her handwriting, in the desk. Differ- ent ink than that in the apartment was used. It is learned that Betty} quarreled with Geraldine, and that she was once engaged to Ger- aldine’s brother, Bruce. Entering Dr. Maskell’s home, Colt meets | Maskell’s chauffeur, muttering, ; “Get me to talk? Never. But Geraldine was good to me.” The doctor says there was a strange woman waiting outside his door when he returned Saturday. After looking around his office she tushed out, crying it was too late. Colt fifffs a coat and purse which the doctor readily admits Ger- aldine wore the day she disap- | peared. Maskell claims he quar- | seled with her because she had broken her engagement. Colt calls on Mrs. Morgan, Maskell’s neigh- bor, who corroborates the doctor's statement that her daughter, Doris, had distributed gifts with him. Two women were seen leaving the doctor’s house carrying two bot- tles similar to that found in Maskell’s office. Dr. Maskell . leaves town. Geraldine's note | breaking her engagemetn is found. The mysterious Ephraim Foster, of Willoughby, Kansas, who had written Geraldine, is a woman, A clue’in the second half of the blackmail note send the police to a menersed house on Peddler’s oad. | CHAPTER XI. i WAS already in my overcoat and on my way. But here I must confess to an act of mine which may have seemed like carelessness. There was no intention of disloyalty on my part whatever, but it did not seem to me then that an hour's time would make an important difference. The fact was that in the morning I had telephoned Betty Canfield at the Esplanade Apartments and invited her to lunch with me to discuss the dis- appearance of her friend. I did not think it necessary to break the engagement in order to carry out instructions—an hour or so either way would make no difference. ea | Duty Forgotten | H Accordingly I met Betty at a | Portuguese restaurant on Broad Street and I found her a very | charming luncheon companion. Of course we talked about the frag- ments of the note she had found, | but at first I tried to avoid a dis- cussion of the case. Instead, got her to tell me about herself, and listened with growing interest as related incidents of her childhood down in their West Maryland home. Her family still lived tain town, e they had been neighbors of the Fosters, Betty and Geraldine had come to New York about the same time. Geral- dine was mallying ae t Senrtes in accountancy while e i interior tig fon which she was now highly success- 1, having a good position with - firm on Madison Avenue. At no time did Betty refer to her on- nt_ to Bruce Foster, .the of the missing girl, and I not have the effrontery to ask her about it, much as 1 know if it still existed, Presently she asked me to tell her about my work, which I did, quite ition A and we lingered over the table while I talked authoritatively of | the police department and my de- votion to Thatcher Colt. “| think you are a good detec- learns from Betty that Geral-| i; in Wingsboro, a little moun| 0) 2 inaee 4 low, however, ower longer cal in “sucker money” be ext cash customers. fhe $10, $15 and even tract held because tickets went unsold. The operators would “buy up” & banquet room in some mid-town| hotel and announce a “testimonial’ for some judge, celebrity or political figure. Often these were absolutely on the level. Just as often they were not. The operator would pay @ couple of dollars a plate nad then sell tickets for $10 or more, A per- centage of that profit would actually go to some fund, but about 40 per cent of profits went - the jeans. * * BUY ENTIRE HOUSE Police investigators report the theater-ticket racketeers have ar- rived but lately from Chicago and, on one or more occasions, have had a money roll large enough to buy up an entire theater for an evening for @ “benefit.” * # * CATS GO NEW YORK From professional fellows met at the current New York Pet Show, I find that apartment house life is changing the habits, dispositions = even the appearance of dogs and cats, A check of several years shows WHATISTHELARGEST DIAMOND ON RECORD 9 by ANTHONY AB Copyrictt BY COVICI, FRIEDE, INC, —* DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. tive yourself,” smiled Betty. “But I suppose that comes “from your newspaper training.” “How did you know I was a re- porter?” I ed. She laughed. “I know more than that,” she said. “You were in the war and served with your old friend, the Commissioner, and you were never afraid of anybody but him, and the only thing you want in the world js another war, and I hope ee never get it, and you're proud of your drinking capacity, aren’t you? T stared across at her in amaze- ment. “You must.be a detective your- self,” I stammered. - “Who you all that about me?” But she only laughed and said she always liked. to know some- thing in advance about whom she had lunch. I saw then that she had talked with Thatcher Colt when I was not present. | A Deserted Village | Then Betty begged me to tell her more about what Thatcher Colt was doing to find her room- mate. So interested was she in the search that I then and there con- fided,to her my assignment, where- upon she pleaded to let her accom- pany me uptown. In this request, I saw no real Betty’s interest in the case was so keen, and her knowledge of Geraldine Foster so valuable that has been dealt the dinner” racket. NO] New York.” They are developing $25 ted from Half a dosen s0- called “testimonials” have never been. told | Road. people with | ufactured ¢ many pets are actually “going iptoms as definite as those pos- seamed by “professional New. York- "Cats, in partleular, go ga-ga. Dogs als, a “or get a little better break, since they are taken for walks and exercised several times a day. The cats rarely leave the house. A third generation kitten was taken to a by one of the investigators recently, The cat had never before had its paws on earth. The poor thing went slightly dizzy and had to be taken home. HI-HO Puzzle No. 12—Here's your chance for a big game hunt! There's an elephant hiding in the seven pieces of the HI-HO rectangle if you can find him, and he’s giving him- elf a shower bath. Cut out the Pieces and fit them together to form his silhouetted figure. telling, in this disarray of bare trees, frozen sod and rutted by- path, set down in the midst of @ great city—this mountain wilder- ness where there were no street signs, guide posts, nor the sight of any living human being of whom we might inquire. “T think this must be the place,” said Betty, pointing to a turn into a wider sort of road, but in no better condition, a few feet be- uj yond. There were a few large old trees, whose bare boughs scraped and cried in the wind of that bleak afternoon, and skirting these we came suddenly upon a lonely house e only dwelling on what we learned later was really Peddlers What we had come upon was a two-story wooden house, called a portable, or assembled house, man- in sections and often sold through the mail. This was a charming one, in good condition, newly painted white with green windows and door sills. Its green pitch roof and the white scrim curtains produced a pleasing and home-like impression. “Perhaps,” 1 said, “there is some one home, and we can make ipaaleiee: But first, let's take a look around.” Leading the way, I passed to the rear of the house, where at first I found nothing unusual, except one broken kitchen window. le~ tected no signs of life, but instead, in the next minute, I came upon “I met Betty at a Portuguese restaurant on Broad Street and 1 found her a very charming luncheon companion.” I was glad to have her. It was about halfppast two o'clock when I telephoned for a department car and we started our long drive from the lower part of the Island into Upper Manhattan near the fron- tier line of ‘the Harlem River, At Dyckman Street we left the} one of car and after some search climbed a narrow path that started from Broadway a Sones hE | slope into a m st al variance with the! built-up that hemmed it all around. a few quaint houses, now big g to pieces, I remember that \ “Up there by the haunted house where, you th wee the naked ost, ca Bi tt, a a erled, but the own the see Ht tea te s 01 Tooke. at each other and then laughed, for the encounter then segmed odd and yet absurd, and ofr own lost situation somewhat ridiculous, Was thie lane which now had led us to the heights of this promontory the Peddler’s Road that we had come hero to] b eck? There seemed no way of i startling evidence of death. Seven pigeons lay dead on the ground almost at feet. Such a collection of dead birds was suf- ficiently uni to me stop roethag! mere el and while urned away, icked f the pigeons, only to let % ‘fall in sudden dismay; what I had seen had greatly led. me—the* breast feathers of the dead bird were smeared with red; s scarlet lash the white breast of je dead creature. The next mo- my weakness, I examined it more if some oy Yet th to kill all sheer wan- I could find no wound upon the bird, nor any evi- dence of violence. One after an- eas te into my hands, only e same let daubs wy id no signs of injury, feathers, ‘am sorry, Betty,” I sai m all. this is Sar7, peculiar. What are these red on the birds? | Have they been dri: red paint and poisoned themselves or— I stopped, struck with a fantas- {i notion, hee. stains on the east —— could ‘they be blood stains? How had they come there? Was there some open stream near by where the pigeons flew to drink? Had they drunk from a pret. that ran red with human ood? x w » ‘ x *¥ r