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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-27
Noise and Our Rights

A Chicago alderman prays that milk wagons
in that city be compelled to wear rubber tires.
This brings up the whole pestiferous question
of noises and rights and we'll have to thresh
it out all over again.
When may dog shout his loudest greeting
or warning to the world? When may Chan.
ticleer awake the echoes? How about the man
with the Ford next door? When may the sax
ophone player blow his meanest means upon a
world wanting only sleep? When may train
or street car rush by with great din of count
less flat wheels? When may cats plight theil
troth with many an ardent squeak?
When? Why, at night, of course Now
that that's settled, let's take up something not
so serious.
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Nv. always had notion I'd like to
60 down Ind stand where the Fritz
les were standing and see why in
hell they didn't hit that door,
Funny-of course-yet not )ne Of
US laughed. Maybe you'll smile
when you read it, but it was much
too human and surprising a thing
At the time -. Two men going
back major and a buck pri-
vate -. one to ride quietly down
q road and one to look at cave.
!. Of all the events of the war
those things interected them most.
The fellow-who- kadn' t-left-can. p
had said nothing. On the tenth
lap he began to talk. 1--WE got one,
too. Not funny though I'm
f'om Iowa. l had {. bl ,tker They
tell me there's {. cross without a
name IN it.
But we knew THAT was coming.
We sidleG him through the little
passage marked Bar Mt one of
IT, wanted to hear he rest of the
story. 1t was too mil ar. It car
ried too much Of the reality of a
war that mosi folk have fol-. item.
We preferred to rear something
funny ;. something about /. :.
jor who would ride a mule down the
Arras road. 8. That sort of thing.
And there, it seems to me, you
have a cross section of a convention
in Paris that has caused a consid-
cradle amount Of interest.
Yes, men meet in a big hall and
they parade down the street and
they lay wreaths and flowers on the
tombs Of the lead and they wander
through the battlefields.
But most Of them are going back
to put a last chapter on an unfin-
ished story perhaps a chateau
where they billeted with some FAM
lily -. perhaps a little "mademo-
iselle from Armentie. 8, parlez vous
/. -" perhaps a place at the foot
Of q hill from which the Heinies were
shooting at cave and never hit
the door.
Pretty human sort Of gathering,
after all, don't you think?
GILBERT SWAN.
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that the old way was more expensive and dl1
not begin to produce adequate results
Billy Sunday went to New York in 1917 and
brought $4,000 into the fold. This cost $780,
O0O Substituting the layman for the profess
sional evangelist, the advocates of the new plan
ay. result far better could have been OBJ.
tanned for far less the expenditure. Officials
who investigated the results of the 1917 Sun
day campaign say that only 200 new church
members kept coming after the smoke had
cleared from the evangelistic platform.
The men backing the visitation method say
that the individual loses himself in the mas,
during the "hell-fire" evangelistic meetings,
whereas he is calmer and can reason better
with himself when the personal appeal is made
One OF the ideas is to get away from mob move
mpnt
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Editors Note. This is the
last of a series of articles on
"Who will Succeed Wheeler?"
RY RODNEY OUTCHFR

BY RODNEY OUTCHFR
Washington, Sept. 2.-The Rev
Arthur James Barton of Atlanta car
succeed Wayne B. Wheeler as legis-
lative superin .endent of the Anti,
Saloon ] .ague if he wants the job
DR.. Barton IS known in the south
as 1.-THE Baptist pope" He is chair
MAJ of the leagues executive CON-
mittee and of the Social Service
Commission of the Southc Bap-
fist church.
He is one " the mos. important
figures in the movement in the
south on the part of d-ys and Prot
estants to defeat lh. presidential
hopes Of Governo, AL Smith of Ne Y
York. In-smuch as the anti-Smith
campaign is regarded by the Anti
Saloon League as its biggest i'm
minent problem, Barton is i. an ex-
cellent positic to take up the anti
Smith Wort whi"h Wheeler carried
on SO vigorously until his death.
Barton has a reputation as an or
ganizer and was one Of the most in
fluential of the lobbyists for the
eighteenth amendment. He helped
frame most of the national prohi-
bition legislation in conjunction with
Wheeler and others. At the age Of
so he is still active, capable and
shrewd.
Primarily a chlrchman, Barton is
q strong bond between the church
and the league. Ee is widely known
among church members, though not
to the rank and lie Of the country.
For all his religion, he is re-
garded as a fighter. I'e is Il the
heavy-set, bulldog type in appear
ance, and he fights the same way,
with tenacity, his admirers say.
Like Wheeler, he rakes fGends
easily. He he's done most Of his
work-except for Washington forays
in Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee,
Missouri and Louisiana
The question is, according to lie: ~
ers Of the league, whether or not
Barton will accept Wheeler's job
with all it's troubles an. response
bilities. Unless he declines or senti-
ment changes, he will be elected to
it in December. His sentim ants are
no. now known. He has never been
an employee of he league aid it may
be that he does not njoy rough
and-tumble fighting as Wheeler did.
The leag4e is talking over it's
other timber. of course-but always
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Nothing Against Him

Ever since Woodrow Wilson called Edwin T.
Meredith into his cabinet Mr.. Meredith has
been approvingy spoken of as presidential
possibility. He was good secretary Of agrl-
culture, because he knew the work of the Of
tlce having for years been proprietor of one
OF the most successful agricultural papers in
the country. He is from Iowa. which is in the
heart Of the disaffected Republican farm belt
He IS eligible in point of age, personable, dry.
Protestant. He possesses letters Of apprecia-
ton from Mr.. Wilson, and letters of reproba-
ton from nobody Both the late Mr. Bryan
and the retired Mr.. McAdoo whom many DEM
ocrats have found it hard to please, have at
various times spoken well of Mr. Meredith He
has never said anything unpleasant about
"Marse' Robert, and the south would give him
its electoral vote if he were nominated
IN brief. there is nothing against Mr. Mere
dith's leadership. But there also is nothing in
particular that makes him a leader He has
no dlscernible qualities calculated to put fight
into the Democratic party or to rouse the
masses ma tie has never submitted his claims
for important office to the voters. Many Of
these things could be said Of others who have
been presidential candidates, but in addition he
lacks the touch of eminence which others have
had whose backgrounds were similar. If Gov
ernor Lowden and Mr.. Meredith were the nom-
nees. there is nothing about Mr.. Meredith which
would make it likely that he could carry the
0Si VI al Ic&lOLS over the hepuDIlca0 CanQl~
date. If he were opposed by Mr.. Hughes or
MIR. Hoover. there is not the slightest warrant
Tor believing that the east and middle west
would rise for him. In every way he typifies
one OF those worthy and unexceptionable men.
who are bound to be mentioned in every stu
alton like. the present, and then vanish from
consideration.
His name has been proposed to Democratic
conventions; the delegates have listened po-
itely and then continued their cheering for
others. Perhaps his personality lacks the COL
or and force which Democratic candidates
ought to have unless they belong to the emil
nent classification. At any rate. it is hardly
credible that state organizations now inter-
ested in Governor Smith or Senator Reed or
Governor Richie could be induced-even on the
most flattering promises of harmony-to make
. synthetic pool for Mr. Meredith. And even
II the residuum of those who fought for Mr..
McAdoo in 1920 and 1924 should choose the
Iowa editor as a rallying point, it is difficult
to think of him as such a pillar of fire and en-
thusiasm as Mr.. McAdoo furnished in the last
two conventions.
Possibly Mr.. Meredith is unlucky that he isl
? Democrat, for his kind of candidacy is one
that often has appealed to the Republicans,
and one that they have sometimes made into
presidents. But democrats bent on success
have before them always the tradition of al
Jackson, Cleveland or a Wilson-men capa-
Die Of arousing fierce opposition, but fiercerl
favor.
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evidently ached to do? That would
have punished Bob, >even il he had
never known Of it. But Of course
she would have told him, to make
sure Of his punishment!
She was still glowing with anger
and the tortured hate which is the
natural revulsion Of love when. Il
last, there came Q low knock on the
door Of the room in which she lay.
She did not answer, but hunched
lower in bed, pulling the covers up
about her face, turning on her side
as it she were asleep. When the
knock was repeated and still she did
not answer she heard the soft turn
ing Of the knob, then the click Of the
light switch beside the door. She
was glad then that she had turned
aside, feigning sleep.
"Faith!" There was relief in his
voice, but no warmth; annoyance,
rather, "Are you asleep?"
She turned, opened her eyes and
yawncd, wondering - she did 80 at
her ability to play = part 20 well.
What is It? I was asleep," she
made her voice come thickly, drcws-
lily.
ooh! Sorry! Good. night"
The light clicked off, the door
closed SITTER him. He was gone; he
had made no effort to affect Z recon-
Citation. Again she started to spring
from the bed, to 60 to him, humbly,
imploringly, explanations tumblne
off her frantic tongue. But . thought
jerked her body flat again: What il
oh, dear God!-what If he was
glad that she had completed their es-
arrangement by leaving their room =?
If he did not love her any longer,
wouldn't he be glad, relieved?
Although he hated tears, abe cried
for hours until sleep came ct last.
NEXT: Joy unwittingly betrsys
Faith to Cherry.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Editorial Comment
McAdOO Does Not Goose
(Minnpan mills IournoN

William Gibbs McAdoo taking himself out
OF the race for the 1928 Democratic prcsiden-
tial nomination. says his withdrawal is in the
interest of party harmony, that it is designed
to avert a disastrous fight in next summer S
convention
With which sentiment the rest of his state
ment is scarcely in keeping. For Mr. McAdoo
makes it plain that he thinks he can do more
to control his party's platform and its choice Of
nominee, if he sits in the convention as dele
gate instead of besieging it from outside as 4
candidate.
Even as William J. Bryan, after he had given
up hope OF ever obtaining fourth nomination,
sought to boss his party's conventions from
ringside seat, so Mr.. McAdoo apparently pur-
poses doing next year. If, then, the country
smiles little at the Georgian-Californian in
his newly chosen role of preacher of party
peace, If neutrals receive a bit lncredulousy
his passionate avowal, we shall not be surprised.
But that Mr. McAdoo is sincere in his declar
alton that he himself will not be a candidate,
is hardly open to doubt. With the state con
ventions and preferential primaries only few
months away, there have been no indications
that any McAdoo boom was burning up the
pralrles. either in the west or south. Which
is understandable. Wishing to back winner
is thoroughly human characteristic And
Mr.. McAdoo has twice demonstrated that he is
not winner.
Out of the 1923 race, Mr. McAdoo is neces-
sarily out of subsequent races. For by 1928
he will be nearly seventy, and no Democratic
convention has ever put up presidential NOM
inee who was that old.
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Daily Health Service
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American
Medical Association and of Hygeia,
tie Health Magazine

tie Health Magazine
Outbreaks of infantile paralysis in
seven or light middle west and near
eastern states have served to focus
attention anew on this Gripping and
dangerous disorder that usually
comes to light late in tho simmer.
As yet medica! science has not
discovered with certainty the causa-
tive organism or a specific method
of prevention that v i'll be of service
on q routine basis. The disease IS
q general infection with symptoms
Of paralysis due to Inflammation Of
the spinal cord.
When the disease begins there is
usually rise in temperature, some
disturbance Of the digestion, general
naal4ise. headache rest ssness and
irritability followed by drowsiness
with an inclination to h. quiet. The
Inflammation Of the nervous system
causes pain and apprehension on me-
tiQn.
Of the neck ard the spine. Two or
three days after the disease begins
there comes on paralysis Of the
power to move the parts but not Of
the sense Of feeling in them. This
is du. to the ct that MY tn an
terror part Of the spine where e
motor nerves are concerned is in
volved.
The posterior part is not 'fected.
Hence the other n.r1e Of this dis
ease, acute anterior poll. myelitis!
The legs are mr q frequ tlv par
alyzed than are the arms but the
muscles Of swallowing, Of sight, or
Of other parts Of the body may fail
to respond because IT the loss Of
proper nerve control.
So far Is is known, the most ef-
{ective method Of preventing in
fAntile paralysis would !: complete
isolation from al contact with any
patient in the acute stage or in any
other stage Of the disease, - yell
- from those convalescing o. those
suspected Of being carriers.
Until the cold weather sets in,
when the incidence Of the disease
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oAlNE A% nd AS;;,t5,6N NEK

During minutes that seemed like
eternities Faiths ears strained for
sounds that would tell her what her
husband was doing, She was fully
aware by this time of the unworthy
motive which had driven her to de-
sert the room she shared with him.
She knew, flushing with shame, that
it had been an instructive gesture,
made with the sole purpose of Fore
ing him to come to her, to beg her
forgiveness. Had she been so child
ish also as to wish to brighten him
with the sight Of that empty bed of
hers? She groaned, throwing an
arm over her eyes, but her ears
were still straining for news Of him.
She heard him moving about in the
bathroom, caught the faint sounds
of the vigorous brushing of his teeth.
He had already been in the bedroom
then, knew that she was not there
She wanted to spring out Of this
strange bed, tear open the bathroom
door and fling herself into his arms,
sobbing out a plea of forgiveness.
But something held her back-pride
CT stubbornness or fear that she
would be repulsed. She heard him,
little later, moving through the
silent house; once she was sure he
had called her impatiently. She could
picture him switching on lights in
the living room, expecting to see her
curled up, weeping, in a corner of
the big couch. What was that ter
rible thing he had said to her-"I
never in my life saw woman who
could ny as much as you CAM" She
had half risen, to go to him, but at
the remembrance of his crue' words
which she feared she had only too
we'll deserved-she sank back upon
her pillows again.
Very family from the kitchen
came the sound Of the slamming of
the ice box door. He could eat, then!
Not knowing where she was, what
agony she was going through, he
could cheerfully rummage for cold
roast, chocolate meringue pie and
rolls, as if the end of the world, so
far as their love was concerned, had
not come. Anger poured over her in
hot waves, drying the tears to which
he had so harshly objected. And be-
cause her love for him was such a
terrible thing, the hate that she felt
then was equally violent. She had
sudden, suffocating desire to hurt
him physically, to break up the ice
in his cold eyes-eyes that had once
been so warmly brilliant with love
for her. Oh. why hadn't she let
George Pruitt kiss her, as he had so
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Now that Mr.. Ford has gone into.
the rubber business too, there are.
those who wonder if the new ma
chimes are made to squeeze through
or bounce over traffic.
The general store has come m
from the crossroads. You'll find
it in almost any town under the
name of "nrurs."
These are the day. when all
young men are divided into two
classes-football and pool players.
A San Francisco man went crazed
in a movie theater and shot three
persons. We know what he saw
it was that picture in which Christie
pher Columbus went down to the
docks in a flivver.
Nine-tentls of the people in this
country are unable to think for
themselves, says an easter, profess
sor. We are just wondering how
that other tenth ever got into his
classroom.
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begins to lessen, children should
not travel about any more than is
absolutely necessary
There are special serums for the
prevention of the disease, including
particularly the bleed serum Oh q
patient convalescing from the els
order, but there is no known ape-
cific preventive treatment that can
be applied practically on a laEge
scale.
The Ohio department Of public
welfare has issued a statement ad-
vfhing that the patient be plaQ,d
completely at rest as soon Is pos
sible. Massage of the p4ralyzed
muscles early in the disease has
been shown to be harmful.
After about six weeks gentle ms
sage and passive movements may be
used, but even these are capable at
doing harm as we'll rs good. and
should be administered only under
the direction Of a competent special
list, or experienced physician. Rough
handling of the spine may serve 10
extend the paralysis or TO make it
impossible for the inflamed tissues
to .ecover as satisfactorily as they
might otherwise.
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &1M

one Fears the pious crestion arise
is - whetk r such and such Z mai
would accept. Most Of the leagues
workers are men with moral urge
and sacrificia! temperament; per-
sonal rs re net cc3sarily
predominant in their. An example
was Wheeler, who worked foe $4,000
a year-before ne was raised--when
he could have had $500" q $780,
600 perhaps more. as lobbyist for
one Of the t-usts.
F. Scott Mcbride, who haa been
doing some of Wheeler's work, is
regarded IS q likely second choice.
AS general superintendent = the
league he has been fnrnd q shrewd
pc litical .na...pulator.
Bishop Cannon has been u. xested.
but he probably wouldn't resign his
episcopacy. On the other ham DR..
Edwin Dinwidile who quit the
league in disagreement hasn't q
chance. despite reports that h had.
Ernest H. Cherrington, executive
secretary ,. the World league
Againt Alcoholism an head of the
leagues vast propagand mQchine
at W~sterv e. is the biggest man
in the league today, with Wheeler
gone. But Cherrington has a very
important job now-at least al high
as Wheeler: Aid he j not a fast,
catch-as-cat,h-can fighter suolh 6
Wheeler was. 1t is not supposed
that he would IKE the Wheeler posi-
ton.
Arthur j. Davis, the New York
superintendent, has q good leacue
record. but his heath isn't very good
and he has his .ands full takiig care
Of the New Fork problem. he is
not expected to take Wheeler's post.
On the other hand, w. M. For
grave, head of the Massachusetts,
branch, is regarded as the man
whose assets nearly approach
Wheelers. He likes a fight and
doesn't mind ridicule. He is one Of
the youngest league superintendent
and one of the most successful. His
aggressiveEess and alertness have
made him a favorite with many
league leaders who feel they need .
man like Wheeler to maintain the
leagues grip on Congress.
Before the $50 members Of the
leagues national board meet in De-
cember, the name of the next per-
manent legislative superintendent
will undoubtedly be known. = is
too early 20 tell yet whether the
temporary superintendent appoint
by the executive committee will be
formally elected later.
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Welcome to Two Great Groups

! Bismarck extends a cordial welcome to the
North Dakota Baptists, whose annual conven-
ton will begin here tonight and to the Metho-
dists, who will meet here October a.
T. This city has often been favored by denonl-
Elnational conventions. but not before have two
nssuch conventions come in such close proximity.
cBismarck people are going to do their share to
see that both groups receive a welcome and an
Entertainment here BETTING their Importance.
AS convention city, Bismarck has long been
tnoted. And with these two conventions, as
ibe done to assure them pleasant stay.
We repeat: Bismarck welcomes the con.
fvention delegates and hopes they will enjoy
their stay here as much as we will enjoy
<having them with u.s.
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dNew Yorker
&oA parisc%@

Aboard the s. 5. Paris, somewhere
at Sea-We met on the third lap Of
one Of these three-mile valks they
take around the deck an hour after
dinner and half m hour before
brandy and-sod There was q
major, . doughboy and . fellow that
never left training camp All
going to the legion convention.
And when we had made the sixth
lap ! asked, casually, what more
than anything else they wanted to
see when they got black over"
The major chuckled. James
Madison Blackwell, by the way, is
his name. He has to lay a
wreath or something like that in the
formal ceremonies. i. The major
chuckled and look. out to sea.
"D'ys know what I'm goin. to do :?
I'm going Gown the Arras road on
a donkey !. that's what tn, going
to do. I've got it all fixed. Called
. friend to fix it up with q peasant
family knew out there. Yes, sir
and the reason is this: want to
prove to myself that .-ou can 20
down that road a not Be in . hurry.
| want to 60 down that road Just
once without getting shot at. 1t
was . swell road, but Fritz was try
ing to pave it with hell every time
I went down. I want to 60 along
it peacefully on . donkey
or even walking
The doughboy chuckled and, lean
ing over the ships side, began: "!f
the major hadn't told that story I'd
never have admitted what was 60
ing to do. Sunny whole war
can 60 around you and everything
in the world car happen and then
some funny thing gets your goat.
Nov the thing that has had mine
ever since it happened was q cave.
Laugh that off! But there we were,
punched about 200 in this cave that
we'd dug into . regular hide-away
and just down the hill was Fritz
pepperipg at Us.
Nov the Heinies was hitting
everywhere. They hit The sidewalks
and we could hear the rocks sput-
tering down. They hit men that
went outside or tried to come in.
But they never hit the door we had
over the mouth Of the pit. And
was the 9uy that was right behind
that door. II they ever came
through :. it was Curtains and
thought every minute they was COM
ing through.
"Bu- they never did and most OF
that two hundreds still alive. Now
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Personal Evangelisna

t is an age of facts rather than poetry, ma
chimes rather than men. Now a movement
within the churches promises to do away with
the old picturesque evangelist. ;
i The new method is known as visitation
evangelism, . process Of winning souls to the
isawdust trail much after the manner of the
insurance salesman getting his man. Instead
Iof appealing to the crowd. with an emotional
|uaps home and show him the facts.
Within the federal council of churches in
|fluential church leaders are at work bringing
shout the visitation" method. They claim