The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE. BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO - : - - : DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............ deseo vds Ole) Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).. +. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BOOST THE CORN SHOW Bismarck’s state-wide corn contest, to be conducted through the Association of Commerce, will be real service to the state. There will be no particular glory gained for Bismarck, unless a Burleigh county farmer should win the first prize in the contes' It is an unselfish service, and it is to be hoped that all cities, counties and agencies in the state will cooperate to make the corn show a great event. For the first time, a practical method is to be provided for determination of the champion corn grower of the state. The corn grower will not only win a beautiful silver cup but also a cash prize. He will win glory for himself and also for his community and his county. ‘Judges of national reputation will be obtained. They will tell North Dakota just how good corn is raised, and those behind the corn contest are confident that the verdict will be that no better corn is raised any place in the entire United States. The contest is a great advertising movement. Through it Bismarck is going to lead North Dakota in tel!- ing the world that the state is in the corn belt and is one of the first states in corn raising. YOUR FEA The greatest disease in the world is fear. You have noticcd that people who have an especial fear of any partic- ular disease usually wind up by coniracting that disease. Maybe the fear is just a premonition of an ailment that is gradually developing in the body; maybe not—it depends on t your viewpoint in regards to the effect of the mind on the ody. Fear, however, makes people franti It unbalances the 1 nervous system, with the natural result that the digestive apparatus gets out of order or the body’s powers of resist- : ance against disease are otherwise lowered. t In this way fear becomes an intensifier of diseases. i The hypochondriac or neurasthen‘c is really a‘victim of! t fear. f And people who do not fear disease are more able to com- & bat disease, simply because their mental attitude helps keep their nervous system belanced and healthy. | o x Some medical scientists claim that fear and courage are the results of varying conditions of the adrenal glands at- J tached to the kidneys. When these glands are too active, y the owner is timid. Cautious is a better word, for the dis- eased glands telegraph to the brain that the body might be to endangered by over-exertion and accordingly should take no se chances. - i When the adrenal or some of the other mysterious glands oH do not function normally, the owner has spells of indefinable apprehension—dread of everything in general and nothing in particular, a sort of fear or premonition of impending dis- DY aster. : Fear is as deadly to careers as it is to health. Failure Me often is the result of fear and the timidity and warped men- 1 tal attitude produced thereby. On the other hand, success i often is largely the result of self-confidence—absence of fear. b 4 A ARE WOMEN DOMINANT? oth = Women rapidly are becoming the dominant sex and man ae will be a timid, shrinking creature of the fireside and boudoir. i Joke-writers began telling us this, long ago. Now they’re E _backed by the German scientists, Mathias and Mathilde We “Waerting, whose book on the subject has been translated for | aa publication in English. He “We disagree. Men are slipping admittedly, but any de- terioration that is taking place is attacking both sexes equally. 4 Women average a 50-50 say. They always have and al- E “ways will. day oh serv INSECT CUTS CROP : eee Cotton price is high, but this doesn’t necessarily mean tee high prosperity for the grower. Before the boll weevil got urda busy, the American cotton crop was as big as 16 million bales Tk a_year. The 1923 crop is not much over nine million bales, way though the acreage planted to cotton this year was the lar- ati. Best ever. y Bi *~-=A crop of nine million bales at 40 cents a pound doesn’t | diges bring the planters much more than 16 million at 20 cents pm =a=pound. ndis : w. fe Soon rae Hom et. FARMERS EFFICIENT sworn Frank Vanderlip, the banker, says: “Within the last 10 an “years, some 1,700,000 men have left the farms. In spite of ala this, our crops are greater than ever before. This shows Geom, “that=here in this country farming has become an efficient Mea industry.” y it’s not unlikely that farming is too “efficient” for its | wn good. The farmer’s worst problems in recent years seem | “€o be due primarily to over-production, YOUTHFUL LEADER Youngest industrial leader is Lucien J. Demotte, 17, of | w York, head of a‘ two million dollar company with | es in Europe. checking this up for a success editorial, we learn that jherited the business from his father. Inheritance. is ing to be one of the leading roads to success, power, au- and’wealth. Our country, becomes older, developing ate clan system. Gn. PAYS PRISONERS Massachusetts tdkes steps to pay: wages to all inmates of \dle Lady. {I have a throat as white as milk, om We can't remember if this is Ford's | day to be president or his day to | get Muscie Shoals The aniual shortage of shopping | days before Christmas is rivaled | only by the shortage of paydays. Engineers say the White House is unsafe. Just the same, prospec- tive tenants are very numerous. While Christmas costs a married man more than a bachelor it is | worth more to a married man. They found a 4,000,000-foot gas well in Mount Morris, Pa, but it will not run for president. Women are nice, but peculiar. | Once they put their moncy on their backs, now it's on their faces. | Department store fire brought SMigistmas cheer to Philadelphians. The charge accounts were burned. A New Jersey woman of 50 mar- ried a boy of 16, but in about 20 years they will be the same age. Hen eggs hatched inside a Golds- boro (N. C.) snake. The chicks were saved, Bet they are tough birds. “Take mother along” is Mary Pickford’s advice to movie-mad girls. We had no idea Mary was that old. People who hate hotels may enjoy learning five hotelkeepers have been | arrested in Pennsylvania. New Yorker sues his wife for lost love. Values it at’$100,000, Should have taken better cure of “it. News from Munich. They are cat- ing dogs. Next time your dog barks threaten to cat him, In Mexico, Huerta wants to fight Obregon. Mexico is making her New Year resolutions early. German inventor has _ offered France his new parachute. One way or another, Germany will get even. British object to our movies being shown there. Well, we object to her booze being shown here. shot at himself in Berlin, perhaps because of such a name. Boy of 16 was caught moonshin- ing in Cutler, Cal, Sixteen is too young to start a big business, This year's new life insurance is eleven billions, which certainly a lot of arguing. A pink wildcat was captured in the Rockies. Perhaps it was blush- ing because it was so wild. Only a few more shopping months before light underwear. ADVENTURE OF ' THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton dear!” sighed the Riddle ‘I'm afraid the boys won't like my riddle today. Or the grownups, either.” “Then it must be a little girl's rid- dle!” cried Nancy. , it is!” answered the Riddle Lady. “All the better!” said Humpty Dumpty. “I like girls, J don’t shiv- er when they conmé:snear me. They are much more gentle than boys.” “But girls do more » cooking so break more eggs than boys,” said Nick. Humpty Dumpty gaye him an in- dignant look and :jerked down his white satin waistcoat. “A most un- pleasant conversation,” he declared. “Who started it, anyway?” “lm afraid you did yourself, Humpty Dumpty,” laughed the Rid- ut there! There! We'll begin our riddle and get our minds off eggs.” “I have two eyes, a nose and mouth, And two dear little ears, But though my eyes will ope shut, They can’t cry any tears. And though I’m proud, as proud can and e, f my nice little nose, never caught a cold in it, And never smelled a rose. My mouth is cute and just as red As any red ripe berry, I never tasted cake or bread, And never ate a cherry. Oo I I have five fingers on each hand, Yet never held a book, And though upon my feet I stand, A step I never took. But never said a word, My hair's as soft as golden silk, But does not grow, I’ve heard. My heart, they say, is cold as stone, And yet I love you all, I never feel a bit alone, For I'm a,—— ——1” “A baby-doll!” éried Nancy quick- handing her a dolor her prize. “That was only a riddle about dolls,” went on the Riddle Lady. “The truth is dolls can do wonder- ful things.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, NEA Serviee, Inc.) | hops and factories. Prisoners would be limited pe 4 a,fourth of what shey produce. hee , for: ‘be able-to save money erging from. prison funds, would be less apt : coming ou‘ ee Bic i Ld ata Chinese Woman Doctor. San.‘ Francisco—Margaret’ Chung can sign “M. D.” after her name.” She 'is the only Chinese woman doc- tor in the United Sta{ In so far few | * ‘the records éhow. “And, she ‘has, a'practice, too. ‘course: it’s: Ta Chinatown, ; er. over tle Marquise and told iy. “Right!” smiled the- Riddle Lady,|, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Ai No. 4—Winning Mah Jongg {The object in the game of Mi as possible, and to wi Jongg) the hand. As you progress in the science of the game, you will discover that sometimes these two Those who have played bridge whist will see in this an analogy to two-fold purpose of that game, i. e., to win rubbers, and to run up big honor scores. Sometimes in bridge, a player purposely loses “rubber” to fatten his honor score by doubling an opponent, So in Mah Jongg. This playing to\the score is some- thing at which one becomes profi- cient by practice and familiarity; I wgnder, little Marqui It is all very well to talk big these things, but could Jack forget the mother when that dear little innocent face was raised to his? IT don’t know. I didn’t dare ask Jack last night 1 was I can’t to go with me to the movie picture because heard . something, although he had said nothing to me. tion that he was afraid I would ask him to go to the show and when I picked up courage enough to him if he had seen the picture he answered in a very ‘cross tone, “Why should I go to see a fool moving pic- ture? with brains being amused, edified or instructed by them.” answered~that I thought would be more interested in this one than any other. get any farther than that. are you trying to intimate? has been talking to you, Leslie,” he fairly shouted. sure that he had T had an ‘intui- ask understand anyone. he He didn’t let me “What Who “T have not been trying to inti- mate anything, John, but of cours you know people are hinting that little Jack is the son of this girl who is playing the part in ‘Trumping His Heart.’” “Who told you —that? Rutb Ellington I shalt tell her never to come into this house again.” If it were Then I made another mistake, lit- He tried fo I lied again to Jack that Ruth had never spoken to ime about it, that I did not think she knew anything about it. insist upon my tell- ARS TRUS: “Statis THAT STATISTICS ACTUALLY PROVED SOMGTHING ! IN TALS CASS THEY PROVE THat THERE’s LUCK IN ODD NUM You DON'T SAY WHAT KIND OF LUCK, BUT + KNOW WHAT YoU MGAN cell with scoring values, and for the be- ps | ginner it is well to play each hand to } Pree) . Mah Jonge, if possible. S Editorial Review J Which brings us to the question, What is Mah Jongg? A Mah Jongg, ‘or winning hand, is one which contains four sets ‘of threes and a pair. Definition We will dispose of the pair first. A pair is composed of two dragons FARGO'S NOTABLE VICTORY ‘ Fargo hag won a notable victory in its rate case in the tentative re- port of Examiner A. C. Wilkin to ing him who it was and we had a dreadful quarrel. At last I told him j that I knew little Jack was the son /the Interstate Commerce Commis- = , if after} of Paula Perier and I was pretty|sion. I proved: 5 i They threw eggs at the candidates, !the other day I would really be big | boy's father. ‘go will enjoy a sweeping rate re-| two East, i ) two of the same but it only egged them on. enough to love my baby as I do it| Jack/said, “My God, Leslie! Won't {duction, placing it ip almost all deabiiniaten ie the Rain ae a ; _ =ES JI thought Jack was his father and | you Ie¢ up harping on that?. If you |instances upom a parity with Du-| two Bamboo “threes,” % "Dot Prince Von — Schaumburg-Lippen'| this little French girl were his moth- | have fo adopt a baby, wouldn't it be |luth and. the ‘Twi Clues froma prea fas oe rs Henig “fives,” two Character “nines,” etc.). better \to know that it was the off- The sets of threes may be either spring of such a splendid chap as Sydney and such a beatiful girl as Paula?” “Then it is the truth!” rupted quickly. “I\am not saying it is the truth. Remember that, I don’t know any- thing’ about it. I am just making a | suppositious: cireumstance.” H “Ruth thinks he looks like Miss | Perier,” I interrupted, then wished I hadn't. “Ruth—Ruth! Ruth Ellington had | better!keep her mouth shut,” growled | Jack. “I never approved of your | great intimancy with her and I ap- prove: of it less now. than ever be- fore, since she is going to open that shop. Where did she gat the money | for that? It might be well for her as for you to know that our baby is not the only Subject of gossip in the city. Everyone is saying that she either held out some money from Harry’s creditors or that Walter Burke has set her up in business.” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) freight rate standpoint. All that Fargo has been asking is an equal chance—an equal chance through a fair adjustment of rates with the Twin City and Duluth; am equal chance in order that Fargo shall not ‘be discrimin- ated against in the future, as in the past, in serving its legitimate trade territory. While the examiner's ‘report is not final, the subject now bein ‘open to review by the commission, the recommendation of an exam- iner are wsually adhered to by the commissioners. The final disposition of the case in ‘favor of Fargo, which now seems asgured, will mean that this City will take its rightful place, due to its geographical location ‘and natural advantages, as a dis- jtribyting center. This will bring ‘because discriminatory railroad rates heretofore have re- tarded development there while building up other distributing cen- ters at the expense of Fargo. In the past many business concerns, which were ready to locate in Far- go and which were fully satiafied on every other point, could not see their way clear go to do when they found the. natural advantages of the City were nullified by prejudi- cial rates. a ‘An interesting feature of the casé ds the one in which the ex- aminér statés that there ig no jus- tification for a higher basis of rates rel ly to Fargo from Chi- cago anil East, than applies to the Twin les. The Twin Cities fought. - point strenuoualy, maintaining that the reason of the tow rate between Chicago and the Twin, Cities was because of the many railroad lines and the’strong ‘competition between these points. Fargo demanded to share in this competitive rate by being allowed a through rate from Chicago based on the rate from Chicago to the Twin Cities. At present Fargo must pay what is called tthe full combination of rates on a,carload shipment from Chicago. That is, it must pay the rate which the Twin Cities enjoy, plus the full local rate from the Twin Cities to Fargo. But, as stated above, the examin- er holds there is no justification in this higher basis of rates. The report of the examiner fs not ulone @ victory for Fargo as it sets & precedent for the Northwést, The examiner's report provides for similar changea to Valley City and Jamestor It will unquestionably tory is a signal one for the traffic committee of the Fargo Commercial Club which gathered ‘the information’ and which has fought the case so successfully. “If this case fe finally decided as it appears from the information at hand, it looke as if Fargo is really to Jay selde its swaddling clothes,” said Mr. H. E. Reynolds, chairman of the traffic committee, yesterday. 5 And that is juet what it will mean.—Fargo Forum. = ~ I inter- New York, , Dec. 14,.—Americans, as a whole,/can live longer if they will lower their blood pressure, which can be accomplished by a bet. ter adjusted diet with less animal food. That is the conclusion of an original international survey sof blood pressure, experience, present- ed at this afternoon's session of the Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. The survey, which was submitted by Chief aActuary Arthur Hunter of the New York Life Insur- ance Company, covers life insurance blood pressure records in many wide- ly separated countries. From these statistics, affecting representative groups in China, Japan, Australia, Argentine, Canada ané@ the United States, M Hunter believes that blood pressure is not affected by race hut that it is principally affected by’ kind and quantity of food, thereby to some extent putting it within the control of the individual with biood pressure above normal to prolong his life irrespective of his resfdence. It was also disclosed by Mr. Hunt- er that the leading American life in- surance companies are now pooling their blood pressure experience cov- ‘ering about 2,000,000 lives in this country and Canada in an_ effort further to study the relation of such Pressure to longevity, While the primafy object of this more exten- sive, investigation is to gain further information with respect to selec- tion of applicants for insurance, the opinion was expressed that the re- sulting information will be of scien- tific value in prolonging human life. Presents Survey In presenting his international sur- vey, Mr: Hunter stated that advocates of the theory that the ebb and flow of blood pressure are “due to racial characteristics cite the~ low ‘blood pressure of the Japanese and Chin- e To combat this’ he presented statistigs of the actual experience of the life insurance companies, siow- ing that Japanese and Chiriése resi- dents in the United States havea blood pressure of from five to eight degrees higher than representatives of these two races living in their own countries, Mr. Hunter, account- ed for this by their consumption of more meat in their diet in this cou try. High as American blood pri sure is, it doe: People of Australia where, he said the per capita consumption of meat is high, | i “Until afew years \ago the lay- ‘rarely heard of “blood pressure,’ yet today most intelligent men end women have a general id it means,” said Mr. Hunter. is partly di by physicia —e- Six Men Blown to, Death. Lahore, India—The superintendent of police,and a number jof constables | were aresting Dhanna Singh, a no- torious Babar Akali leader, when the bomb the man was carrying ex- ploded. Singh and five policemen were blown to death. Quinchuas, natives of Bolivia, go | for’ days without food, chewing ; cocoa leaves from which cocaine id | derived. CQISTEN To THLS, TICS Show THatT every SEVENTH MARRIAGE ENDS IN Divoraes? seers ! Haw! 0 the ‘ man Might Help Some. Wife—What’s the matter, dear? You look worried. . Husband—The books. down at, the office won't balanc: Pi Wife—Can’t you buy some new A Bit of Comedy. MADE cE) dihagory *Deutachtend 6 Ay MERCURE ‘ week’ » SUITS AND OVERCOATS Ueber Allies” is again being sung in Germany's leading beer-halls.. ace, iwe'd..say, for comic are inconsistent, and you will rur-| “ones,” posely fail to Mah Jongg when by so etc.). doing you can increase your score.| the, ot reach that.of the’ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 19234’ O49 BY J.P BABCOCK three-of-a-kind or three-run-se- ah| quences, The threes-of-a-kind are Jongg is two-fold: to score as mugh composed of three dragons of (or Mah! the same color; three winds of the same Girecfion; three of the same de- nomination in the same suit (that. is, Dot three Bamboo three “fours,” three Character The three-run-sequences are thrge of the same unit next to each othtr in numerical value, such as a one, two, three; a two, three, four; a sev- en, eight, nine, ete. . No Four-Runs There is no such thing in| Mah Jongg as a four-run-sequence but it is possible to have four of a kind. As it is necessary for you to under- stand the system 0f play before this an be explained, it will be treated in a later article. In sorting your hand, it is well fr you to place together your sequences and threes-of-a-kind, as otherwise you might inadvertently discard a tile from one or the other after play starts, ” The expert Mah Jongg player wilt often deliberately break up a three- of-a-kind or a tnree-run-sequence in order to risk bettering his hand. But this is a risk which it is not well for the beginner to take. I would ad- vise that, until you become thorough- ly familiar with the game, you play each hand for Mah Jongg, and hold on to your sequences and threes-of- a kind. “LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE _ AND LIVE LONGER” ADVICE OF INSURANCE ACTUARY papers and magazines. The public is beginning to realize that an early iscovery of high blood pressure may enable the physician to lengthen the life of his patient, if not to re- move the cause of the trouble. In many cases, the patient has no knowledge of his condition, the first warning coming from this modern aid in diagnosis, “Blood pressure slightly lower than the average is favorable to longevity provided the persons in the group are in good health. The higher the blood pressure is above the average the greater the mortality above the normal. Persons with a distinctly high pressure are prone) to develop diseases of the heart, blood vessels and kidneys, the mortality from heart disease, apoplexy and Bright’s disease being very high among them. A moderate use of to- bacco does not seem to have much influenge on the blood pressure.” How Santa Does It. “Oh, look at the car dad gave me for Christmas!” “Gee! What™ power?” “Oh, about forty reindeer!’ lected. ‘ One Big Hitch. “1 thought -you told me Papyrus would win in a walk.” “And so he would have, but this was a running race.’»-Yale Record. It is reported next year to erect a in of radio stations to connect mining camps in the Mackenzie River valley in northern Canada. FROM SCHOOL TO $125 POSITION Miss Guyula Rith went right from Dakota Business College, Fare go, N. D., to.a $125-a-month po- sition with the Northern Pacific R,. R. She earns more from the:start than many office workers ever do. A ““‘Dakota’’ edycation pays. In choosing schools, don’t judge by Wle claims, but by. past records. Some 226 D. B. C. graduates have become bank officers. Many:head big businesses. Names furnished if desired, “Follow the $ucce$$ful.” Beem with the New Year, Jan. 18. Write F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front of what| St., Fargo, N. D:, TODA’ ‘This to. the increasing use of the test, and partly to discussions-of the subject in rews- PHONE 1-100 » Best of Service at the Lowést oT oan, j ‘Regulation and Train Time Gladly Answered. ‘Just Call 1-100 # R. BRYAN, prietor: S18 Fitth Street DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE. i Biemarcky NED.