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Evening star., 1932-04-01
HUMAN STUPIDITY
AUTHORS TARGET
Pitkin Awaits Brickbats for
Book Launched on All
Fools Day.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April lit is All Fools
day and Prof. Walter B. Pitkin is sit
ting back, chuckling and waiting to
hear what kind Of thud his "Short
Introduction to the History Of Human
Stupidity" will make when it hits
homo stultus.
There have been other bad boys of
literature, but this time newspaper
editor and, later. professor of psy-
chology hopes and confidently expects
to be dodging cabbages hurled by
Kings as well as taxi drivers
The book went out to the unsuspect-
ing public today and Mr. Pitkin CAL
culates it will take a few days for
filtration through skull bone, so he
hasn't closed the storm doors yet.
In speaking of man. meaning you
and you and you, Mr.. Pitkin uses such
charming terms as folly, blunder, ir-
rational, frenzy, yagary, quackery. de-
usion, obSeSsion, hysteria, puerility,
paranoia, stupor, hallucination," and
just go on in your own vocabulary.
Times Change Since 1918.
But is there no hope? Oh. yes!
Ten years ago" said Mr. Pitkin
today. Il know l should never have
been able to get such a book published.
Wherever it appeared there would have
been public bonfireS; Boston would
have barred it.
We have changed lot Since 1918
there have been three great waves of
progressive diSilluSionment. First, We
were disillusioned about our war lead
ers, our generals and statesmen and
profiteers, such as the S1-a-year
patriots.
Second we lost our illusions about
our business and industrial leaders
That was in the boom and depression Of
1920, the jazz age with war excitement
worn off.
Then, third-the big crash. We lost
our faith in fundamental human ability.
and that is the historical Justification
for my book"
In addition to the fact that We are
drifting rapidly into plain anarchy"
Mr.. Pitkin believes, we are coming to
Evening star., 1932-04-01
FAWCETT HOSTAGE,
SCIENTIST BELIEVES
Indians in Brazil Think
Whites Bring Good Luck,
American Told.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO. April Fur
ther light on the links Of modern civil
ization with the mysterious Matto
Gross Of inner Brazil was shed yes
terday in report by Christian
Lamarche, American scientist, who
said he believed many white men were
living among the Indians there.
Lamarche has just arrived here,
enroute to New York after several
months spent in exploring the vast
plateau Of Matto Crosse, with head
quarters at GoyaZ, capital OF the
Brazilian State Of Goyaz.
Lamarche said that in January he
had met Paraguayan hunters near the
told him they had several times met
white men among the Indians.
Think Whites Bring Good Luck.
Lamarche said he believed one of the
white men might have been Col. P. H.
Fawcett, the British explorer who
vanished in the Matto Crosse seven
years ago. Stephan Rattin, a Swiss
trapper, recently arrived with a story
he had met Fawcett in the interior as
a hostage held by the Indians.
The Paraguayan hunters told La
ma-che the Indians consider white
men as bringers of good luck. Such
hostages are given a comfortable liv-
ing by the Indians but risk death from
their adopted or a rival tribe, if they
attempt an escape.
Not Forcibly Detained.
It was pointed out here that the man
Rattin said he saw was not forcibly
detained, and that he might have been
one of these hostages.
Lamarche said most Of the white
men living with remote Indian tribes
on the inner tributaries of the Amazon
were either tired of civilization or had
taken refuge there rather than pay
some penalty imposed by civilization.
Evening star., 1932-04-01

state of public opinion which resembles
startlingly the establishment that
spread over India in the time OF
Buddha.
Some other ire-provoking opinions of
Mi Pitkin depending upon where you
sit are that the Lindbergh kidnapping
proves "the complete incompetence of
the law-enforcing authorities; that the
blase attitude of the city man or woman
is cultivated stupidity" and that some
people are stupid all of the time. and
everybody is stupid part of the time.
Anyway, Mr.. Pitkin is waiting for the
brickbatS.
Evening star., 1932-04-01

weeks on the halls Of the 1888 Century
of Progress Exposition.
Five million dollars and $500 skilled
men will be the agents for speeding the
transformation Of the open stretches OF
the boulevard-studded Lake Michigan
front into a city Of bizarre architecture
before another Winter comes.
Thirteen buildings-the last OF the
major units and several special struc-
tures-are to be added to the few al
ready standing and the signal for the
opening of the huge construction pro-
gram will be the drop of steam ham
mer driving the first pile of o bridge
over an artificial lagoon.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
Runs Matrimonial Agency.

George Longnecker, proprietor Of a
soft drink stand in Chico, Calf, has
employed seven girls in the two years
since he opened his business. Six of
them have resigned to get married.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
Neteors Are Foreign.

According to the Harvard University
meteor census, approximately 80 per
cent of the meteors entering the earth's
atmosphere come from outside our
solar system,
Evening star., 1932-04-01
PENNSYLVANIA STUDENT
KILLS SELF IN FLORIDA
Suicide of Frank W. Simmons, Jr.,
Second at Rollins College
Within Two Weeks.

BY the Associated Press.
WINTER PARK, Fla, April l.
Frank w. Simmons, jr.. Rollins College
sophomore, killed himself by firing a
bullet into his head here Wednesday.
1t was the second campus suicide
within two weeks Carol Bennett ended
her life here March is by taking
poison.
self through the chest, but the wound
apparently did not take immediate ef-
feet and a second shot was fired
through his head.
Simmons stood high in his classes.
Friends said he had appeared some
what morose since his return from a
visit to the North.
His parents live at Mansfield, Pa.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
CHICAGO READY TO START
WORK ON '33 EXPOSITION
100000 and $500 Men to
Transform Michigan Boule-
ward Into Bizarre City.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April Chicago is
rolling up its sleeves and making ready
to set to work earnestly within two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
lFll0JNNV3EJRS
in the woods TO-DAY
Fleur -de-LiS
BY DIR. FRANK THONE


Copyright. 1927. by Science Service. Inc.
NTHEN you come out upon the
w weedy margin Of a pond.
or a vet meadow. you are very
liely to find this flower. delicate
blue and yellow, sufficient all by
itself TO make a day in May,
though all other buds we're sealed.
Il is the wild iris. which is the
Fleur-de-Lis, the most gailan,
the bravest, the most famous Of
flowers, and yet withal the most
lovely. Riding above the stiff
sword-blades OF its leaves. II is
like Jeanne dare above the
spears of her army, something at
once bold and delicate, strong and
yet sweet.
It is wholly appropriate that
this flower should have bloomed
for so long on the banners Of
France, that It should have been
the symbol also Of the city of
Dante. Of Florence, "the city of
flowers"
II Is the kind Of flower that lifts
itself TO a place in flag. DO
not even old farmer wives. who
know nothing Of glory and whose
romance went out long ago, still
call them "fiag-flowers?"
But the pride of the wild iris
is OF even more ancient lineage
than this There is an iris that
blooms in the stony fields of
Palestine, a much brighter one
than ours, a veritable oriental
dream Of gorgeousness-
The ancients we're not careful
Of their botany; iris and lily we're
one TO them, and so it Is that
when Jesus OF Nazareth sought
a symbol OF careless glory sur
passing even that Of careful
king, his eye and word lighted
upon an iris that was a Fleur-
de-Lis. or being Englished, a
lilly flower"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24

only man who's going to help him
is himself
There's no hope OF a decent So
cietv until he gets It through his
head that the producers have got
to run industry and the state for
the benefit Of the producers.
The state. under that system,
ought 70 be- a mere commission on
industrial and international rela-
tons.
AS for congress and Mr.. Hoover,
I'd suggest to them gently that they
all 60 home and see what luck they
have getting themselves Jobs
Critic Can Do Little
Dos Passos. who roves leisurely
about the country. always observing
social conditions and trends, can
think Of but one logical approach in
.riticising present-day America.
you must keep in mind" he said,
the fact that any situation where
any critic of the existing order would
be in a position to do anything po-
litically would imply a far different
sctup Of events. ideas. classes and
political convictions. than we have
before us in this spring Of 1882.
so, you see, at present the critic.
revolutionist. liberal or reformist
can't do anything except formulate
what type of society he'd like to see
take the place Of this one when this
one gets sufficiently rotten to
collapse. or is pushed over from
underneath.
Il think that the nope Of an ar
rangement Of society that will free
men and women from some Of the
crime and misery that has made
history a long nightmare is a great
hope. and that its substitution for
religion would be an enormously
important forward step in human
development
Socialism Seen as Remedy
Dos Passos holds that western
industrial society has reached a
point where nothing but Socialism
can save it from bloody wars and
destruction.
And by Socialism. he doesn't
mean the Socialist party, nor the
Third International. Il mean ali
attitude OF mind, mostly" he ex-
planned.
There is one alternative he con-
tinued. That is rigid dictatorship
by the industrial owning claSs-a
sort of new feudaliSm. But in spite
Of the present current toward Fas-
cism. I don't think the ruling class
has the nerve to put it over.
In America. where the growth oil
capitalist individuahsm has been
completely unhsmpered by the feudal
restraints OF Europe, the owners Of
industry have sacked the richest
continent in the world, sold gold
brick after gold brick to the pro-
ducers (the workers and farmers,
whom they needed to grow the
wheat and the hogs. to drill the oil
: wells and run the adding machines
and buy the Fords and the stocks.
Right now. these same owners are
strangling in the ticker tape of their
own roulette wheel-Wall Street.
But I don't think for a moment
that this is the curtain for capital
ISM"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24

Succeeds Julius c. Travis as Head
of Supreme Court.
Judge Curtis Roll, Kokomo, Mon
day became chief justice Of the In
diana supreme court, succeeding
Judge julius c. Travis.
Alhponse Wood was advanced to
chief judge Of the Indiana appel
late court, and Judge Posey Kline
succeeded him as presiding judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24

answers unhesi-
tatlngly. I'd
try 10 get the
industrial world
and the white
collar worker
and the farmer
the underdog
p no gets his
face pushed
down into the
pavement every
day-to under
cs.nI fraf ffar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
BY II. ALLEN SMITH

United Press .taH LorfesDondent
NEW YORK, May 24.-John DOS
Passos. whose novels reflect a def
mite spirit Of rebellion against the
existing order Of things in the
western world, is confident this de-
preston viii end just as. he says.
all other depressions have ended.
leaving the lower middle class and
the working class ruined. and the
big interests more powerful and more
consolidated than ever"
What would I do about IL" he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
FAMED REBEL
SAYS UNDERDOG
MUST AWAKEN
SoCiaIistic Attitude of Mind
Seen as Only Salvation
bV Dos Passes.

What DO Americas political dissenters
think cf our present economic dilemma
What ruggcrti1uE have they FOR a So
luflrr and what none 90 tncF mold Tor
fhr fgfure7
The United Press has interviewed seV-
rrai a. their number for The Times and
presents their ideas and opinions In A
cries ~ articles. the second Of which
follows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-24
ROLL IS CHIEF JUSTICE

Next-Lady's slipper.
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Socialism Seen as Remedy

Dos Passes holds That western
industrial society has reached a
point where nothing but Socialism
can save it from bloody wars and
destruction.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
REPORTS INDICATE
SMALL Cash CROPS
Feed Production, However, Is
Heavier Than Normal,
Survey Shows

Washington, Sept. 3.-(R)-Smaller
cash crops and relatively large feed
crops were pictured Friday by the
agriculture department as important
factors in the current farm situation.
Estimates for August placed the
average crop yield per acre at 6.5 per
cent less than year ago and 4.6
per cent under the 10-year average.
Wheat, flax, buckwheat, hay, APP
pies, peaches, tobacco and cotton
were listed as among the major crops
likely to produce less than an aver
age total output. Relatively large
crops likely to produce less than an
average total output. Relatively large
crops included corn. barley and sweet
potatoes, while oats and potatoes
were estimated as about average
crops.
THE cash crops have been cut
down." the bureau Of agricultural
economics said in reporting OH farm
conditions. whereas 1t is expected
that the total supply OF new feed
grains will be the largest in several
years. Germ. the foremost feed grain.
is a moderately good crop and there
Is large acreage.
THE acreage Of hay Is somewhat
down this year and the crop is rather
short In the northeast and in the
cotton belt: it is an average crop or
better in the south and west
The bureau said that while the
meat animal industries have received
some encouragement from markets
this summer, no similarly encourag-
ing price recovery had yet appeared
in the dairy industry.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
Name ChriStiansOn
u. S. Society Head

Supreme Court Justice A. M. Chris
tianson has been named chairman Of
the United States Society for North
Dakota, 1t Is announced by national
headquarters of the organization.
The society was formed recently for
the purpose Of spreading knowledge
of government. Free distribution to
schools throughout the state of cur
rent materials which will present
non-partisan and impartial informa-
ton relative to present-day develop
ments in the field of government will
begin as soon as organization work is
completed.
Community cl1airmen throughout
North Dakota will be appointed In the
near future under Judge Christian
sons direction.
David Lawrence Is national chair
man Of the organization and Mary
Roberts Rinehart Is national vice
chairman. Breckenridge Long is Sec
retary-treasurer. On the national
board of advisers are Calvin Coolidge
Newton D. Baker. Elihu Root. Owen
D. Young and John Grier Hibben.
The prime purpose of the move
ment is to provide the nation with an
informed electorate, the announce
ment said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
CHURCH HOURS CHANGED

Rev. D. Pierce-Jones. rector Of St.
Georges church has called attention
Of his congregation to the return to
the hours Of 8 q. m. and 1880 a. m.
for services. Tbs schedule will be In
force from now on.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
PrOhibitiOnist Will
Lecture Here Sunday

A lecture on prohibition will be CIV
Ell at the Burleigh county courthouse
Sunda at p. m. by DR.. o. N.Y.
king Menus, Of the state teachers COL
lege at Maryville, Mo-, according to
Clell G. Cannon, local vice chairman
of the Allied Citizens, sponsors Of the
lecture.
DR.. Menus talk is entitled what
shall We do about prohibition?"
The lecturer, who Is head of the
social science department Of the Mis-
souri, teachers college, is North Da-
kota product.
He was born at Brinsmade and re-
ceived his master Of science and doc
tor Of philosophy degrees from the
state university.
For two years he was president of
the State Total Abstinence associa-
ton Of Missouri and has been active
In the work of Allied Youth In tina:
state. He is contributing editor Of
THE High School Teacher" in the
field Of social problems, character
education and training for world cit
izenship.
The public is invited to attend the
lecture. Cannon said.
While here DR.. Menus will be the
guest Of his sister, Miss Belle Menus,
2001z Third st.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
ARRANGE RITES FOR
new SALEM WOMAN
Mrs. Selma Waldo, Pioneer OF
District, Will Be Buried
Monday

Funeral services for Mrs. Selma
Waldo, resident of the New Salem
district for 40 years, will be conduct
ed from the German Evangelical
church at New Salem at z o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Rev. Ruben Barrels, pastor of the
church, will be in charge and inter-
ment will be made In the New Salem
Evangelical cemetery.
Pallbearers win be friends and
neighbors Of Mrs. Waldo. They will
include Max Hoesel, Ed. Hoeger.
Henry Wolf, Fred Kuntz, Herman
Rasch and Richard Wolf, all OF New
Salem.
Mrs. Waldo was 81 years old. She
was born In Germany Aug. 2. 1868.
the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Kirchhubel. She was educated
In Germany and came to the New
Salem district, where her parents
Eomesteaded, when ~ years old.
Mrs. Waldo resided on the home
stead until three years ago, when she
moved into New Salem to reside with
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Schneider.
She was married at New Salem
May 7, 1892, to Clemens Waldo, who
died in June, 1881.
Mrs. Waldo leaves six daughters,
IL grandchildren and her brother,
Bruno Kirchhubel, San Francisco,
Cal.
The daughters, all Of whom live In
the New Salem vicinity, are Mes
danes Paul Buelinger, Ernest Golde.
Charles Whiting, Carl Schneider. Max
Just and Otto Just.
Mrs. Waldo died at a hospital here
shortly before 8 o'clock Friday morn
ing. She had been in the hospital
four days. Her death was caused BY
heart disease.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
M|LL|KAN PURSUING
COSMIC RAY STUDY
Noted Scientist Seeks More In
formation Through New
instruments

Pasadena, Calf, Sept. 3.-(F1-Dr.
Robert A. Millikan and two assist
ants were en- route Saturday to Win
nipeg. Man., where the first observa-
tons will be made In an 5000 mile
cosmic ray research expedition.
DR.. Millikan, one Of the foremost
students OF cosmic radiation, has just
completed series Of tests at March
Field. Calf. where army pilots car
ried his highly sensitive self-recording
electroscope to attitudes of around
$4,000 feet. Seven such flights were
made with the electroscope enclosed
in a lead ball which only coSmic rays
could penetrate.
While the physicist declined to
make public his itinerary. he pre-
vtously had stated he planned to
make similar flights at Spokane,
WASH, and Minneapolis, and to make
further recording with the use Of
electroscopes in free balloons and tiny
parachutes at Glendale. N. d.
"Our program" said DR.. Millikan as
he left for Winnipeg. involves first
upper air work In airplanes with cleo
troscopes especially designed for
yielding accurate results on moving
and vibrating platforms. and there
fore we'll adapted to airplane flights.
1.-THE flights. to be carried on in
widely different ATTITUDES and high
altitude recordings with sounding
balloons. should furnish the most
crucial evidence obtainable as to the
possible effects Of the earth's mag
netic field upon cosmic rays. These
effects have important bearings on
the nature Of cosmic radiation"
Accompanying DR.. Millikan are DR.
Ira s. Bowen and Prof. H. v. Neher
of the California Institute Of Tech
nology.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03

Free! A thrilling sound pic
ture tonight at the city audi
forum which includes famous
singers and music, 8 o'clock.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03

In 1904 the New Jersey legislature
abolished slavery.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03


Arllys Anderson, Bismarck -. $500
Dorothy Atwood. Bismarck. :. .43500
Jane Byrne. Bismarck. ......... 100
Catherine Andrist. Bismarck. .47660O
Natalie Barbie. Bismarck. $50. 800
June Boardman. Bismarck -. 685O0
Veronica Brown. Bismarck -. 300
Irene Britton. Bismarck ....... 3l70O
Katherine Brown. Bismarck. :. $4,000
Eula Cameron. Bismarck 49,. 5000
Ernestine Carufel, Bismarck. 3G660O
Ethel Childs. Bismarck ........ GOO
Ethel Fisher. Bismarck ...... .654OO
Margaret Fortune. Bismarck ;. 400
Isabelle Gordon. Bismarck -. 10000
Elinor Green. Bismarck 49,. Z. 1900
,Magdalenc Gondrtngcr, Bismarck 17G0
Ruth Gordon. Bismarck -. 26On
Betty Haascrsen. Bismarck !. .474oD
Caroline Hall, Bismarck. .,.... .574o0
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
LAWYERS OF STATE
WOULD CHANGE LAW
ON TRIAL BY JURY
Recommend That Civil Cases
Involving Small Sums Be
Tried BY Judge

Fargo, Sept. 3.-(P)-With the close
of the annual convention of the state
bar association of North Dakota
which saw the advancement of Judge
William H. Hutchinson of La Moure
to the presidency. it was revealed the
report Of the committee on leRisla-
ton which asked modification OF the
Jury system in the interests of time
and economy had been adopted with
certain reservations.
The association recommended the
rules be changed to require trial by
the court only in civil cases which
involve sums up to 5000 unless a trial
by jury is specifically demanded
The recommendation of the commit
tee to have the litigants pay iury
cost, however, was voted down.
It was further recommended that
in criminal cases the right of trial
without jury by the court only be
made possible by request of the de-
PENDANT.
The recommendation Of the com
mittee to make appeals under the
workmens compensation act possible
was first voted down and then re-
ferred to the executive committee for
further action. Other committee re-
ports. in the main, touched only on
professional or association problems
Judge Hutchinson. who as vice
president has presided at all sessions
OF the convention this year, succeeds
John o. Hanchett, Valley City. as
president. He is judge OF the third
judicial district.
The new vice president is J, P
Cain Of Dickinson. r. E. Wenzel of
Bismarck was reelected secretary.
William c. Green, former Fargo
attorney and now of St. Paul. closed
the speakers program Saturday with
sparkling word sketch Of the ma
tlonal capital. He called his address
Here and There in Washington" and
In 1t he dwelt at some length on the
follies and the foibles, the fancies
and the facts which war upon each
other in the game of politics as
washington knows It.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
Weather Report
FAIR
FORECASTS

For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair
tonight and Sunday: slightly cooler
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03
GENERAL CONDITIONS

The barOmetric pressure Is low
over the Mississippi Valley and 1t is
high over the northwestern states
This pressure distribution Is accom-
panied by warm weather over the
east and cooler weather over the
Northwest. Frost occurred at some
places over the northeastern Rocky
Mountain slope. Precipitation occur
red at scattered places in the Middle
Mississippi Valley and from South
Dakota and Wyoming northward over
Saskatchewan. Elsewhere over the
region the weather is generally fair.
Missouri river stage at a. m. l.8
It. "a hour change, 0.3 It.
inches. Reduced to sea level, 1910.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-03

and north portions.
For Montana: Fair tonight, warm
or extreme west and north-central
portions; Sunday fair east, unsettled
west. probably showers northwest
portion, warmer.
Outlook for the week beginning
Monday Sept. 5.
For the upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri Valleys and the northern
and central Great Plains: Not much
precipitation likely first part of week:
but showers indicated during latter
half. especially north portions; mostly
moderate temperature.