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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-04
Natures Great Sponges

A sponge can be godly gift, too, and we
need no more Mississippi floods to tell us that.
Yet we have gone on, year after year, denuding
our forests-nature's great sponges-by the
millions Of acres.
The forests Of the country are great reser-
voirs that hold back rainfall. The trees break
the force Of storms. Forest floors, at the head
waters of streams, absorb thousands of tons of
water, preventing erosion and floods. The
thick, fat carpet Of leaves, needless twigs cones,
seeds, fallen and decayed logs and vegetation
soak up water and feed it gradually to the
rivers.
According to Ward Shepard, forest inspector
of the United States forest SERVICE we have ap-
proximately 225,000,0OO acres Of logged off
forest land that has not been taken for farm
ing. Many Of these forests, through destruc-
tive numbering and fires, have been denud. d,
and many turned into worthless barrens off
which the water rolls as though from ducks
back.
Imagine this vast 2z5,000, 000-acre sponge
reforested, with thick litter on it's shaded
floor, soaking up tons Of water, which must
seep gradually through the earth to the rivers,
Lnsted Of rushing pell-mell down the stream
bedsl Imagine the restraining power Of such
) greet sponge in controlling floods!
i No 1y1tem Of flood control that leaves out
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-04
Zoninr Laws Prove Popular

More than 80 million people are living un-
Ter the supervision of zoning codes, the de-
)artment of commerce says, and therein lies
IN answer to those critics Of zoning who have
laimed that they will never be success be-
alse Of their "unfarness."
AS matter of fact, the coming laws should
continue to prove Of popular appeal. They
rive dweers in the residential sections Of
titles assurance that the value of their prop
,rty will not be impaired by encroachment Of
business structures. They are eminently fair.
The comparative fexibiity of the zoning
avs as now used by the average city is such
hat in case of rapid growth there will be no
,toppage of industrial growth They provide
he most sane and sensible way Of dealing with
The problem of maintaining a citys beauty and
keeping it's residential districts unimpared in
value.
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the forests can succeed. Levees, of course, will
hold back floods to fixed channel-while the
levees hold. Artificial storage reservoirs will
help. But unless we move for the natural
storage of water such as forests provide, there
always will be that tremendous rush of flood
tides following storms and the spring thaws.
Charles Lathrop Pack, president Of the
American Tree association, advocates state and
federal acquisition Of land for, forestry pur-
poses, first in the Appalachian region. A large
percentage Of the water that flows past New
Orleans, he says, comes from the combined
sources Of the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland
rivers. These three rivers are the chief flood
breeders of the Mississippi and all arise among
the steep Slopes and heavy soils of the Appala-
chans. In this section, more than any other,
Pack asserts, forests can make their greatest
contribution as amelioratng factors in flood
control.
There can be no real flood control without
forest management.
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SAlNEE A and ASS'{bIRN SINNER n
nA0ne Austin

1t was odd, Faith reflected. as she
moved steadily from one task to
another that Monday morning, how
Cherry's checrfully malicious char
acterization Of her-"Faith was born
to be martyr '-destroyed all of
her anticipated pleasure in doing
the work Of a drudge so that Bob's
crippled bank account could have a
chance to recover.
rs it true,' she asked herself,
flushing with shame, that I wanted
to pose before Bob and Cherry as an
overworked drudged, just to win his
notice and sympathy? Did Cherry
really see through me, or am l not
quite as bad as that? l do want to
help Bob! But" and in the mirror
over the bathroom washstand which
she was scrubbing she caught a
glimpse Of the red tide that swept
over her neck and cheeks and brow
q also wantd to be praised for
my unselfishness."
AS she probed her motives that
first hard servantless day, Faith
felt as if her soul, so carefully pro-
tected by folds of illusion, had been
stripped bare, that she saw herself
as she really was for the first time
in her life.
"Oh, | hate myself" she moaned.
CHERRY was right about me. | have
enjoyed being overworked, SO that
people would say I'm good and un-
selfish. Cherry is selfish, but she is
honest about it. She doesn't try to
pose as a saint, in order to be prais-
ed. But then-Cherry doesn't need
to. She can be as selfish and useless
about the house as a Pekingese pup
Ply, but it is Cherry who has always
been loved. If she were Bob's wife
she would cheerfully let him spend
every cent he could earn or borrow
or steal, and he'd adore her for do
ing it! But in return she wouldn't
give him hundredth part Of the
love give him. Does he know how |
adore him, worship him? And would
he care if he knew? Wouldn't it just
bore him or embarrass him if l tried
to tell him? Cherry wouldn't try to
tell him! She'd let him do all the
telling! Oh, it's the Cherrys who
have the best of it in this worldw
1t was long, bitter, heart-break-
ing day. And in fury of self
chastisement Faith made it back
breaking day as we'll. She waxed
floors that were already glass-like;
scrubbed linoleum that was spot
less; strained tendon in her should
err washing the big living room win
dows which had been spattered by a
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Editorial Comment
A Shopper Fined
Chicago Tribune)

\CncagO 1rlDune)
A jury in Cleveland has awarded $3675 to
Mrs Joseph Mack for her arrest by police
man for petting in parked auto one moonlight
night last July. The other party to her Of
Tense was her husband but the policeman
would not accept the explanation, either be-
cause he did not believe it or did not consider
1t relevant. He seems to be fully in sympathy
with the doctrine that any disclosure of the
natural emotions is highly improper and an
outrage upon the public morals, especially If
the emotion is pleasant.
That jury Of his peers so emphaticaly dis
agreed with the policeman's view of his duties
that they fined him very substantial sum
seems to us a hopeful sign of wholesome revol.
against the regime of the snooper. There al
ways has been class in our country which has
favored using the force of government to i'm
pose it's own notions Of morals or of propriety
upon others. Our laws contain fossil remains
OF such efforts and some that are revived at
times for dubious purposes. But in the main
the American people have had faith in the pri-
vate conscience and have not favored putting
1T IN the keeping of government. Unreason-
able interference with private judgment has
been and is rather frequent in our social and
political history, but it has not represented the
main current Of our tendency and it has always
met successful resistance. Recent epidemics of
intolerance 90 not represent the abiding char
acter OF the American people, which is kindly
and open minded, wisely distrustful of govern
ment intervention in private affairs and of all
forms of collective discipline or control Their
appearance shows the persistence of the dis
position to moral bullying and the existence
OF certain areas of ignorance and consequent
blgotry, but we do not fear that liberty Of
thought and conscience has ceased to be cher
lshed by the American people as whole.
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served for royalty and that, by some
rare good fortune, it has suddenly
become available to those outside
the pale. That one will pay
plentifully for this honor goes with
out saying.
It is at Zelli's also, that slice
Of Broadway seems to have been
lifted and transplanted in Paris.
Here come most of the "big streets
theatrical folk. "In season" one
can find more important stage peo-
pie here than at Tex Guinan's.
Furthermore, after the second
bottle of champagne, or the third
brandy and soda, these Broadway
folk will decide to entertain you.
Within a few hours a million
dollars worth Of headline attractions
will have given their best just fol-
the fun of it. On Broadway any
night club owner would give his silk
shirt to learn the formula by which
this miracle is achieved.
It is at Zelli's, also, that slice
usherettes pay the theatre for the
privilege of holding a job. -. Fiji
teen francs q day is the amount they
are taxed. But, since they charge
each patron a franc for showing him
to q seat, they get their money back
with interest.
Oh, yes, Broadway, which prides
itself on so many good "rackets,"
might we'll come over for few les
sons from the shrewd Frenchman.
GILBERT SWAN.
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Cripples and Charity

A phianthropist in middle-western city,
recently criticized because he had given large
sums for libraries, education and the advance
ment of science and failed to give what "was
thought to be his share" in a local charity cam
paign for cripples made this public statement
1--WE are all cripples. Who shall decide which
of us is crippled worst? Who shall name the
most needy? Who shall measure charity?"
That is short statement, but it carries a
world Of thought and oceans of reflection. All
gifts of money to cripples are not charity. Just
as kind word to or about ore whose infrmity
is not mere physical incapacity may be greater
charity than all the worlds gold could buy.
None of us is harmed by charity. We're all
crpples.
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WASHINGTON Al
LETTER SKI

les of the Kellogg Nicaraguan pol--
icy felt that Shipstead hadn't ex.
erted himself to get at the truth
during his foreign relation sub
committees hearings last spring,
but Shipstead, in an issue Of the
magazine Current Affairs, has come
to bat with such a terrific clout at
the ball that the cynics who held
that Shipstead had promised to soft.
pedal in return for other promises
are again left holding the bag.
The senator las ploughed back
into the records to give a picture
Of what he calls DOLLAR Diplo-
macy" in Latin America, supple
menting this with what he learned
of the Foreign Relations Conn
mittee and during his recent visit
to Haiti.
He intimates that the KEYNOTE
of our Latin American policy lies
in William Howard Taft's state
ment of it as providing for "inter-
vention to secure for our merchants
and our capitalists opportunity for
profitable investment" Republi-
can administrations, he finds, have
perverted the Monroe Doctrine un-
til it has become an instrument Of
conquest. But Wilson also 'did
everything to sustain this very
policy"
1--WE are holding them under a
form of military and financial die
tatorship," says Shipstead of the
Latin American Republics. Espe-
cially with reference to Haiti, he
tells of national congresses dis
solved by American marines, of
elections and plebiscites dictated by
American bayonets, of extortionate
financial conditions imposed upon
sovereign republics and other items
of police work.
Behind the Coolidge Kellogg
Nicaraguan policy, says Shipstead,
"is shadow of financial intrigue
and imposition so shameful that
American public opinion would in
stinctively repudiate it if the facts
were widely known.
"Any wel1-informed American
citizen is now aware that our pres
ent Latin-American policy is frank
ly one Of economic aggression in
volving political dictatorship"
Shipstead's blast is we'll docu-
mented and he winds up by cast
ing serious doubt on the CONNER
cial wisdom of our policy by pre-
senting figures to show that the
eight Latin-American republics
north Of Panama spent $57,00O,0OO
less for American goods in 1926
than in 1925-a decrease Of IA per
cent.
Some folks will disagree with
Shipstead, but no one will disagree
with the suggestion that he has not
been lured into the fold with lump
of sugar and made to say nice things
about the administration.
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recent rain; attacked Cherry's dis
orderly room with angry vigor;
hanging up dresses that had slipped
from their hangers to the floor,
cleaning her sisters comb and
brush, bringing order out of the
chaos of Cherry's stuffed dresser
drawers. For lunch she had hard
boiled egg and a rasher Of bacon
then, after taking the baby for an
airing in her perambulator, she
flung herself with feverish intensity
into the preparation of dinner. It
would be such a dinner as Mrs.
Lundy herself would exclaim over!
And it would be so economical that
she could brag to Bob over the saw
ing But no, she caught herself up
with sickening shame, she couldn't
brag to Bob about anything she had
done today. How Cherry's golden
lcyes would sparkle with malicious
amusement if she did brag!
Because the day was cool, for mid
September, she made great pot OF
savory Mexican chilli con carne, Of
which the family was Unfortunately
fond; concocted a beautiful fruit
salad, and then, although she was al.
most dropping with fatigue, she
made gorgeous BURBERRY pie
whose glazed, brown crust was as
crisp as snowflakes. Then she
bathed and dressed, determined to
look her best, just to show Cherry
that she was not martyr!
NEXT: Cheering news.
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BruteS and the Fear of the Law
(MinneapOlis .To,lrnan


AS ST. Louis was burying her dead, nursing
her injured and digging herself out from the
debris piled up by her second disastrous tor
nado IN thirty years, the order went out to the
police and militiamen to shoot looters on sight
In every catastrophe that takes human life
and leaves human dwellings wrecked and un-
protected, whether the scene be ST. Louis, San
Francisco, the Mississippi Delta or Timbuctoo
society, despite the other heavy cares imposed
by dire emergency, must make shift to protect
itself against ghouls who are ready to pifer
the shattered homes of the unfortunate and
even to rifle the pockets of the dead
Indeed, were great flood, a great fire. or
other sudden disaster to overwhelm Minneapo.
lis tomorrow, there would be scattered in.
stances OF ghoulish looting, just as there were
IN st. Louis Thursday night Just as there were
in the Lower Mississippi Valley last spring, in
San Francisco twenty-one years ago, or in Gal.
weston in 1900.
That there are in the world, and seemingly
IN every part of the world, so-called human be.
lngs so depraved, so devoid of heart and con.
science, that they will not hesitate even to rob
the victims of a great natural calamity. is
deplorable, but nevertheless true.
That there are, in virtually every large city
IN the country, men willing to assassinate, for
hire, utter strangers who have never done
them harm, is likewise deplorable, but likewise
true.
Equally deplorable, but equally true, is ii
that there are in every stable community in
the land men willing to burn buildings and en-.
danger the lives Of sleeping innocents, Just to
swlndle insurance companies.
Since the dawn Of history the race has al.
ways included an incredibly depraved minor
lty OF men and women lacking that something
which makes the rest of humankind 20
straight" Possibly nine-tenths of all crime Is
attributable to this group.
For tens Of centuries society has striven to
protect itself against such as these, and with
great measure of success How? BY invest
ing heavily in policemen, courts and jails and
scaffolds. by relying upon the fear Of the law
to hold brutedom in check. And had it not
been for policemen and courts and jails and
scaffolds civilization would have toppled and
crashed long ago. And still there are, and they
can be found everywhere, well-meaning men
and women who scream their protests every
time society sets out to strengthen the only
defenses that have ever proved effective.
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dNew Yorker
90 IL Paris go

Paris, Oct. 4.-Oni the Avenue de
L'Opera, just a few steps from the
American Express office, / found a
man who has tapped the psychology
of those thousands of American
tourists who want to empress the
folks at home" And this shrewd
gentleman helps them in this ambi-
ton, and at the same time fattens
his purse, by peddling stickers of
all the fashionable hotels in Eu-
rope. =.
For a few francs you can have
pasted on your luggage the sticker
Of the Excelsior at Rome, the Dam
ieli in Venice, the Savoy in London
or the Carleton House-and a dozen
For what corresponds to a few
American dollars you can appear to
have stopped at something like a
thousand dollars worth of swell
hotels. For a few cents more,
you can pretend to the home folks
that you visited Monte Carlo, Wen
ma and Geneva.
Meanwhile the street vendor has
the stickers copied and struck off
the press, like bootleggers fake gin
and Scotch labels. They cost
him but a few cents and he can sell
them at sums that vary with the ap-
pearance of the Sucker" It is
quite the most amusing "racket" in
all Paris. -.
And if you would be reminded of
"home, sweet home" there's the New
York newsboy who cries his papers
on the Rue de la Paix. Under
his arm are the Paris editions of the
New York dailies. It is q par
ticularly American note caught up
on thoroughfare typically Partisan
:. Ike, they call him, and they tell
me he is son Of the East Side
brought over years ago by one Of
the American papers to make the
purchasers feel at home.
There is, too, that other shrewd
purveyor to the rich Americana
abroad-Joseph Zelli. Zelli's is
in the Montmarte. Zelli came
from Manhattan, or at least spent
some time there. Then he ap-
peared in Montmarte with his cafe.
>. He built, in q central section of
it, special loge, which he refers
to as "the royal box" When an
Americana appears who betrays, by
his wife's jewelry, that he has q
gold-lined purse, Zelli will say: "You
must come and occupy the royal
box" The intimation is, of
course, that this is a section re-
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shower baths so that the traces of
dust could not be removed before
the men left for home.
Taking Precautions
When proper sanitary arrange
ments were made and the men were
cautioned about chewing tobacco at
work, when a suitable exhaust sys-
tenn was supplied for carrying off
the dust, and when system of
supervising was installed so that
men affected by the poison might
be properly advised, the conditions
were overcome.
Out of the 80 men in the plant
concerned, not one could be given
an absolutely clean bill of health.
Many of them suffered with physi-
cal defects in addition to the dis
turbances brought about by the lead
poisoning. Sanitary control of in
dustries is one of the most impor-
tant steps in modern extension Of
preventive medicine.
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Washington, Oct. 4.-Handsomt
Henrik Shipstead, the senator from
Minnesota, still seems to be his owr
man.
If he can keep it up through the
next session Of Congress, he will al
least be able to enter his campaign
for reelection next year with clear
conscience. He will also flabber-
CAST many Of the local cynics who
thought that they already had wit
messed the first act Of drama of
intrigue entitled 1.-THE Seduction of
Shipstead."
Since he began to be regarded
more or less accurately, as the
man who would control the next
Senate by virtue Of being a lone
Farmer-Laborite in among an equal
ly divided assortment Of Republic
cans and Democrats, great fear has
been held for Shipstead's soul.
Tremendous social and political
pressure had been brought to bear
upon his stalwart frame, it was gen.
orally agreed, with the object of
relieving him of his burden of pro-
gressivism, of which Shipstead had
plenty.
The capital had seen many other
bright, promising young men
weaned away from progressivism
into lives of regularity and desue-
tude and it required little magma
ton to picture Shipstead turning
coat also-that is--if one didn't
know Shipstead. The idea was that
Shipstead was to be seduced by
flapjacks, social honors and prom
Uses of an easy reelection.
|. Well, it may be that Shipstead
will accept some Republican help
next November and it may be that
he will help the Republicans or
canine the next Senate. That
would't be the same Shipstead, be-
cause Minnesota has only half
dozen Democrats and as Republican
votes helped elect him five years
ago he would serve neither his con-
stituency or himself by turning
Democrat.
The point is that the effort to
make a gentle, innocuous conserv-
alive out of this Minnesota pro-
gressive has to date been as success
full as an attempt to tame Texas
steer by pouring turpentine on its
tail.
Shipstead furnished most pain
full moment for his would-be seduc-
ers when President Coolidge made
his peculiar choose" announnce-
ment. Here was an opportunity for
q cautious Shipstead to say some
thing quite perfunctory and HARM
less. Instead, he INDUCED in the
most shocking comment about the
ineffectiveness Of cowboy pants
against embattled farmers.
Some of the more aroused crit
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Daily Health Service
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American
Medical Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American
Medical Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine
An investigation made by the
United States public health service
revealed the fact that lead dust is
to be found regularly in the air Of
many industrial establishments.
In cracker factories, underwear
factories, machine shops, groceries,
cigar factories, tailoring and press
ing shops, and even in an ice cream
plant some lead was found in the
dust in the air. Lead pipe still is
in use in most of the larger cities,
particularly for connections.
When lead is absorbed into the
human body changes take place in
the tissues Of the nervous system
and also in the blood. Investigations
were made to find out to what ex-
tent the absorption Of lead would at
feet the human body when it existed
in amounts hardly sufficient to pro-
duce poisoning but still sufficient to
produce changes in the blood.
Preventing Absorption
Small degrees Of lead absorption
are not important, but when the
blood cells are affected in consider
able numbers, some means must be
taken to prevent further absorption
of this poison.
Two prominent physicians inves-
tigated the amount Of lead poisoning
in q southern enameling plant in
Nashville, Tenn. Thirty-nine men
were examined and high degree Of
lead poisoning was found in Is
cases.
Only 10 Of the 80 men examined
failed to show evidence Of lead alb
sorption. One Of the men affected
was q packer, four were enamel
painters and five were sprayers, one
was an inspector, one furnace man,
one foreman, one was grainer
and one was mixer.
Thus the lead apparently affected
the men in all parts of the works
without reference to the amount of
contact with lead, but apparently
with relationship to the attention
that they paic to their personal
hygiene.
Twenty-six Of the men said that
they smoked while at work. Most
| Of them were careless about wash
ing their hands before eating. In
deed, many Of them ate in the room
where they had been working, thus
exposing their food to lead dust.
The Mushroom itself was dark and
poorly ventilated, and there were no
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Old Masters

Peace to the slumberers!
They lie on the battle-plain,
With no shroud to cover them;
The dew and the summer rain
And all that sweep over them.
Peace to the slumberers!
Vain was their bravery!
The fallen oak lies where it lay
Across the wintry river;
But brave hearts, once swept away,
Are gone, alas! forever.
Vain was their bravery!
Woe to the conqueror!
Our limbs shall lie as cold as theirs
OF whom his sword bereft us.
Ere we forget the deep arrears
Of vengeance they have left us!
Woe to the conqueror!
Thomas Moore: Peace to the
Slumberers.