The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 4

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Distinguished Son Of all the North Dakotans who have obtained distinction in the nation as a whole there seems little doubt that Porter J. McCumber heads the list. Part of that distinction, of course, came by reason of his long service in the United States senate. Pew men have served as many as four terms in that body, fewer still are those who have exceeded that number. But any sound analysis of career discloses much more than mere time in office to prove his greatness.

The character of the man stands out prominently as his greatest asset. Whatever may be said about politicians in general, McCumber was a man of principle. He believed in certain things and he was not afraid to espouse them. He was the type of senator who dared occasionally to pit his own judgment against that of a majority of his constituents in the belief that time would bear him out. For him there was no craven vacillation on a public issue until he ascertained which way the winds of sentiment were blowing.

His habit was to decide things on their merits as he saw them and to follow the convictions so attained. This is something which a great many of our modem officeholders might copy with profit to the nation, if not to themselves. McCumber possessed a sense of the iramatic, as every good politician must, but he never made obvious efforts to erash the headlines. He knew that, if he did his job well, people would eventually come to know about him. He preferred not to be noticed at all rather than to be noticed unfavorably, and therein lay, at least in part, the basis for a proud reputation.

A conservative of the hard-boiled type on such things as tariffs and money, McCumber nevertheless was progressive in many ways. His espousal of the fight for laws governing the preservation and sale of foods is credited with putting that important advance on the statute books. A firm believer in prohibition, he helped to pass the 18th amendment in the belief that it was a forward step, even though he lived to see it pretty generally discredited. His frequent reelections to the senate proved he knew how to make and keep friends. Never a great handshaker or back-patter, he wore well with those who knew him.

He was faithful to his friends. At the peak of his power he was defeated for the Republican senatorial nomination in a campaign with many peculiarities. He knew, as everyone else knew, that he might have won that campaign had he deigned to sacrifice his principles or to throw his friends overboard. That he did neither is credited with losing him his place in the senate, where he had grown to be a power. It is, at the same time, to his everlasting credit as a man that he preferred defeat to an inner feeling of dishonor.

This occasion also gave him opportunity to demonstrate the loyalty which was an essential part of him. A lesser man might have sulked in his tent; thrown political stones at his successful rival for the nomination. McCumber did neither. He was a Republican and a sense of party loyalty was strong within him. The fall campaign of 1922 found him campaigning for the man who had defeated him In June.

One wonders, as this great son of North Dakota, Is laid to rest, when we will find another public servant of his caliber. Some of the men now on the scene may develop to match his stature but they have yet to prove the fact. Take It Easy Every farmer wants the new agricultural bill to be made effective as quickly as possible, but not every farmer will support the demand made Thursday by the heads of cotton and grain cooperatives that the allotment provision be applied to this crop. With regard to wheat, the proposal Is that a processing tax be assessed by August 1 and the proceeds used to finance farmers in the stricken winter wheat belt as a sort of Insurance. Crops are bad there and this piece of mumbo-jumbo would relieve their distress.

If it were only a matter of being generous, North Dakota farmers would have no right to object. We have suffered so much that we know how to be generous. But the matter goes deeper than that. It easily may strike at the very vitals of the whole farm relief movement. By getting away to a bad start the whole business may be so badly upset that little will be accomplished.

This would be tragedy multiplied. Then, too, there is another factor which North Dakota farmers cannot forget. This is the insistence of farmers in the winter wheat belt on planting increased acreages despite pleas from other parts of the country that they refrain from doing so. At the request of the government, Northwestern farmers have cut their acreage In recent years. In Kansas and elsewhere the reply was that they could make money with 40 cent wheat.

The request for reduction was ignored there. There was no federal crop insurance when our farmers faced the most complete drouth on record in this district and no provision is made by the new law for granting such largesse. If it can be done without upsetting the machinery Secretary Wallace should help these farmers, of course, but he should not do so at the expense of agriculture in other parts of the nation and, above all, he should not rush into something which may prove a boomerang. He may get more done in the end if he does not try to do too much at once. Signs of Improvement In case looking for signs of business revival, you might be interested in reading the early reports from Great Lakes shippers.

During the first two weeks of this navigation season, more than 650,000 tons of freight moved through the St. Mary's Falls canal, between Lakes Superior and Huron. The first two weeks of last season sent only 368,000 tons through the canal. Wheat movements are up more than 100 per cent, coal more than 500 per cent, iron ore more than 100 per cent. Business on the Great Lakes freight lines, quite clearly, is better than it was last year at this time.

And you might remember that these lake steamers carry those bulk iron ore and movement is the very backbone of the business. If this improvement continues, a good deal of optimism will be justified. Low on the List How necessary it is that North Dakota improve its streams and rivers if it would make full use of the federal money which may be alloted to it to aid unemployment is illustrated by figures of the Associated General Contractors of America. These gentlemen, more interested in buildings than in highways or dams, are looking hungrily toward a slice of the $3,300,000,000 which the government proposes to spend. As part of their campaign to obtain full recognition for the building industry they have made a survey to determine the number of needed public buildings which might be constructed with this assistance.

For North Dakota only four projects, estimated to cost $460,000, are listed. South Dakota has four with only $360,000, Wyoming two at 000 and Nevada one at $30,000. Leading the list is New York with $319,631,874 and second comes California with $215,509,000. Big figures, those. It is apparent, therefore, that North Dakota must look to other improvements if its workmen are to be employed at home and a fair proportion of the federal money spent here.

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 policies. The Road to Recovery (From The Magazine of Wall Street) Having done about everything else; he could to set back the clock of his-! tory, Hitler has now reduced the German people to mere serfs of the state. Every German must hereafter per- i form manual labor at the dictation of the government. Fascism and Bolshevism are but other names for despot-! ism, and like all despotism it arrives in the end at tryanny.

We are sorry for the docile German, but for the' international good we hope Mr. Hitler 1 will find many things for them to do. We mind a little rude resist-1 ance, to the end that he may be com- i pletely engrossed in internal affairs: for a long time. probably a good i thing for both Germans and the world that he is now busy at home. The trouble is that he may bring about so much domestic resentment and ill-will that he will turn to that favorite resort of unpopular aggression.

In the present mood of the world that would be the end of Mr. Hitler, but unfortunately, perhaps also of the German nation. The next time allied armies cross the Rhine the German tribes Hitler likes to talk about will be nothing but tribes when they retire. There would be again many German states but no German nation. Chiffons and crumpled artificial flowers may be freshened by holding them over the steam of a kettle for a few minutes.

The original power-driven biplane in which the Wright Brothers made the first flight in a plane equipped with an engine is now in the South Kensington Museum, England. 55. I oSW 1 7r -AND Trtis JJJt aut sww itSid'f -ANPTUtS 1 I UTERATURE I is PRO CRESS- OUGHT To DEVELOP A GREAT CIVILIZATION IM I 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-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper.

RICH FOODS DO NOT PIMPLES MAKE One of the fallacies we physicians and especially skin specialists reluct to relinquish is the famous old granny notion that blackheads are due to eating too much greasy stuff, fried food, fats, oils, and, when the fondness fori hanky-panky is very marked, sugar, candy, pastries, cakes and ice cream. In fact about all the old fogies would leave a healthy young person to gorge on is spinach and grapefruit. Is it any wonder so many maidens with acne become depressed and moody? it inevitable that many boys in their acne years fall for the pure blood; hokum and subscribe to some system of developing superb manhood in a correspondence course? You may pore over all the recognized textbooks of human physiology and consult all the authorities on hygiene and study all the works on dietetics and nutrition and you will find no scientific ground for the fancy that the foods mentioned, or rather overindulgence in such foods, causes or predisposes to blackheads and pimples. But a little thing like that to a skin specialist? Now and then I get off a foolish crack about our modern being my way to indicate that the quacks appeal directly to the laity for patronage, and not to physicians in general practice, as real specialists I always think of neurologists, peditrists and dermatologists as outstanding examples of the evil. I regard the neurologist with a dull pain in the cricoid, I admire the pediatrist for his showmanship, but I cannot envisage the dermatologist without grave risk of laughing before he arrives at the point of the story.

Nearly if not quite all the standard authors make a pass at sweets, pastry, fried foods, and some of them like meat very well either. None of them offers an earthly reason for the notion that these foods have anything to do with blackheads or pimples. There is just about as much sense in the notion as there is in the popular notion that a person with albuminuria should not eat eggs because eggs contain albumen. Silly, it? But our great American dermatologists see it that way. And the skin specialists are not the only ones who reluct to relinquish this quaint theory.

No less than half a dozen young women have written to assure me that all wrong about it, for they have noticed repeatedly that they have a fresh crop of pimples shortly after a gorge on fudge or something. For the purpose of debate these bright young ladies disregard the fact that the other two million girls who gorge on fudge at the same time experience no such sad consequences. Rarely is any dietary restriction advisable or helpful for a young person with blackheads or pimples. Never mind the diet. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for instructions, if you have blackheads or pimples.

TUDg GUESSES THE WORLDS I POLE VAULT rSm RECORD? ySB THE WORLD INDEBTED to James Watt? vTFAR APART ARE THE RAILS OF A GAUGE RAILWAY? THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 20,1933 Teaching Our Youth QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Goitre Treatment We were told that you have stated that goitre can be cured without an operation. Wife has goitre, though it has not bothered her for the past two years (P. G. Answer Exophathalmic (wide) staring or prtruding eyes) or goitre is curable in most cases by a course of medical treatment similar to the regimen generally used for pulmonary tuberculosis. In a few cases operation may be advisable.

Your own family physician (not a specialist) is the best adviser. Store Babies Not So Plentiful Your allusion to the simplicity of the adoption of babies make me furious we found 500 applications ahead of ours, at one institution we finally got two illegitimate boys, and we are waiting now to adopt two girls. As for taking infants on approval, the law requires six months trial before the final adoption proceedings No thinking foster parent takes the hush-hush attitude of which you speak. I intend that our children shall know as soon as they are able to understand, and social service workers agree (Mrs. P.

N. what shall I doburst into tears? It is no news to me that you love your adopted children. Why not? what been trying to tell you. Cancer Not Communicable Please tell me if cancer is contagious? My mother and my father both Scotland Yard HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 12 Roofing 1 frlfSlMvl 11l jImI material. ing device.

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(Copyright, 1933, John F. Dill Co.) IN NEW YORK BY PAUL HARRISON New York, May of the lesser-known racing promoters around town is Mr. Arthur Phillips, a young man so well-spoken and tastefully clad that never associate him with the business. And as a matter of fact, Mr. Phillips knows practically nothing about paddock or track.

He races cockroaches. Actually. And doing so well at it that he has been called to Chicago to set up a big cockroach-racing concession for the fair, together with a stable of his fleetest runners. Mr. Phillips is, he says, a writer by profession, and has traveled a lot.

(He still has a sort of continental accent). Anyway, he discovered that in several European cities, especially Paris, many people amused themselves by betting on cockroach races. After spending 830 francs on an indolent insect named Francois, which always lay down for a nap about an inch from the finish line, Mr Phillips decided that this was a novel and uncertain enough sport to appeal to Americans. GOOD BREEDING WINS! Back in this country he consulted entomologists, and on their advice ordered several specimens of the giant field roach (Periplaneta americana) common in some parts of the South. "I found the big fellows sturdy but most Phillips explained.

imbued with any competitive spirit. the other hand, the common roach of the North is a fleet and willing runner. But because of 'millions of generations of being chased, he always tries to take a zig-zag course. So I cross-bred the latter, called Sylopyga orientalis, with the field variety. The result was a highspirited specimen, narrow-bodied and with long, powerful hind legs especially adaptable for taking hurdles in steeplechases.

And these Insects also ran in a straight line. that, though, I had to find some way to make them run. Novices will flee from a noise, but they soon get used to it. For a few days, too, run from a spotlight; then they overcome their shyness and, instead of running, will rise up and take a sort of bow. one thing will keep them going, and the feeling of being pursued.

So I finally perfected, and now have patented, a special cockroach race course. At one end are 10 glass tubes, each containing an insect and, behind, a marble. At the starting signal the tubes are tilted at a slight elevation, the marbles roll, and the roaches run. Hie marbles stop after a few inches, but the racers continue along the separate grooves of an eight-foot track, heading for dark holes at the opposite end. The first insect to hide himself wins." MENDEL WAS RIGHT Mr.

racing stable is in about its hundredth generation now, and the track record has been lowered regularly until it now is four seconds flat. think this proves the doctrine of said the sportsman-scholar, selective breeding will vary determinately the phenomenon of inheritance." For some months now, he has been taking his patented board around to private parties. The first public exhibition was held, appropriately enough, at the Village Grove Nut Club. The racers were named for CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE She wanted Bess to come to San Francisco for the two weeks, to (bring all the children, and stay jwith her at the Fairmont. Robin should have children to play with, they were his own cousins But Bess, shy or independent, would not come.

She invited Lily Lou to come up to Woodlake after the opera season, instead. can easily take care of you and the boy," she wrote, bring any French maids with you. We still eat in the kitchen and proud of I She would have loved to see her father. But he was off in the back country working on a sheep ranch, May said, and there any way of getting mail to him. i May have much good to report of him.

It seems that he was to Mrs. Veemer, the dressmaker in Woodlake, quite an ordinary woman, red cheeked, well upholstered, good natured, and certainly not too refined. should be restrained!" May said. old fool, wanting to get married again, after all the putting up Mother did with him! After the way she tried to make a decent citizen out of him!" When Lily Lou did not answer, she cried, well, been away so long that nothing matters to you. You care what Dad does, and all just ancient history to you.

I suppose even know Kentfield Sargent if you (saw him. You know, you were ilucky to get out of that. Good Lily Lou, you almost Eiissed everything, just by being so illy as to go and get married the way you did! By this time have been an old married woman, like me, and maybe a couple of Lily Lou smiled. about Robin?" just a fad with you. A that your own isn't any more trouble than any other kind pet.

Bess said that! just an all. And here you are, with the world at your everything!" Lily Lou said, And after May had gone she took Robin on her lap and played Cowboy and Indian until he was sleepy. she as near everything as one And then she smiled a little as she thought of what May would have thought if she had told her she would have traded everything for what she had home, even a shabby home, and someone who loved here Traviata was a triumph. With Tony conducting. Tony ever watchful of her interests, Tony jealous of every pat of applause anyone else 'got! I Madame Butterfly on Wednesday, and a packed house.

That was the big night for her. Maiden was a good part, she liked it, but a 'matinee count so much, There had been letters and flowers and friendsfriends of the theater and the world iof art and musick She disappointed. She had not expected any of the people she used to know. Once upon a time 'she would have expected Ken, but if he failed her when her mother 'died, fail her now. ji She help hoping that father would read about her.

He had laughed at her when she said be a star. Well, she was. Her name had been written in electric lights. She was yourtg yetyears greater glories. Might as well light for them.

It would help Robin. She brought him with her. to see the Snow Maiden. It was a treat she had promised him. Bess had not the occasion after New York celebrities.

And one, of course, ran under the colors of Don Marquis, literary agent for the celebrated cockroach named Archie. German education has been purged of smut and Leader Gutjar, after German book burning spectacle. I will not wear knee Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. ambassador to Britain.

The government can produce evidence Martinove has been distributing radical Northup, immigration inspector, at deportation hearing. Prohibition officials have estimated that the annual consumption of bootleg whisky as a beverage has been about 100,000,000 Jacoby, distiller. In modem industrial development we have largely lost sight of the fact that the primary reason for industrial enterprise 'is to furnish a livelihood to R. Richberg, counsel for railroad labor organizations. I Barbs All work and no pay (for teachers) makes Jack a dull boy.

Cleveland councilman introduces an ordinance to make it to steal baseball equipment from teams that play in city Lots of people will agree that it is about time stealing was made illegal in this country. More than 4,000,000 people in this country can neither read nor write, an old fellow outside determined to see you, Madame said Farmers. come down from the lake with the children. They would have loved the fairy opera. She thrilled to see her little boy's sparkling eyes, as he stood in her dressing room and admired her in her gown of frost and stardust.

look just like a fairy he told her, seriously. rather made-up princess," she told him, laughing at her reflection in the brightly illumined mirrors. But she did look like a dream of fairyland, with the glorious glittering head-dress, the filmy white of the gown, her black hair in long curls, like a cascading down her back. After the performance Marie brought Robin back to the dressing room. He was scarlet with excitement.

I wish you would be the Sleeping Beauty some time. I would like to see you be the Sleeping Beauty. they have an opera of that? Then I wish to see one with cowboys, like Auntie opera, mother, we have one like that, please?" He was talking about Vera Votipaka, and her role of Girl of the Golden West, with which he had been much impressed. day. see, darling!" She knelt beside him, still in grease paint and glittering draperies, holding his little hands.

George Farmers, the publicity, manager, tapped at her door. an old fellow determined to get in to see you, Madame Lansing. Says his name is Lansing, and a distant relative. Do you want to see him?" Lily heart bounded. Stopped beating for a second.

Dad! Her own must be! It was. He followed close at the publicity heels, a little shy, but not too much impressed with all the show, the unfamiliar surroundings, the little group of admirers who waited outside. she hugged him, laughing and crying, a little hysterical at the thought of having him here, in the city, at her She scanned his weatherbeaten face anxiously. He changed much. He seemed a little younger, a little happier, a little more like says the National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy.

Might send them to Germany, where they be al- i lowed to, anyway. Chicago labor union gangsters operate on the principle of all for one and gun for all. Market seems to be substantiating the humor of a big rise, but personally we take any stock in it. New York woman Just turned 100 wants to live long enough to vote for repeal. Never too late to learn.

At last we know who the Forgotten Man Curtis! (Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Flapper Fanny mo u. s. pat, orr. many a slip the hope and the trip. Uncle know hov wanted to see you!" She hid her face on his shoulder still laughing and crying, not ing just what to say.

was proud of you, Dolly," told her, holding her off at length to look at her. sang all your notes true, and you lookeo very handsome. hought me a good two dollar seat, and it was wortli you could have had thi stage box the front row you go throwing your money away. You save your money, Lily Lou! I mind the two dollars. Didn't I say it was worth She looked at him.

His old, shiny suit, his carefully combed hair, the collar that was too large, and frayed along the edges. Her heart was bursting. I came down from the lake last he said. always read the papers every day. up at your Uncle place most of the time now, and sometimes I kind of let the papers pile up and read them all at the end of the week.

So when I saw you were tried so hard to find you, Dad. I know. Bessie, she like me herding sheep up there. kind of putting on the dog lately, and I guess she wants I should dress up more. kind of a relief for me not to dress up, Dolly.

I guess kind of a careless old man now. But I slicked ud for could have come in your you and me sort of alike, Dolly. That your She had forgotten Robin, playing quietly in a corner. For one hideous moment she hesitated. The lie that had been so easy before was impossible now.

And yet. The old man did not wait for her to answer. see youfc grand-dad, he said, holding a horny hand out to the child. Continued' Copyright by King Features Syndicate, lae..