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\GE FOUR =e Bismarck Tribune democracy—with iron-fisted dictators ruling Peerds eee oS Bue aber bg ew them it a was fought for the lom of the seas—or THE STATE'S teed dada might they hear our admirals demanding (Established 1873) three-quarters of a billion dollars for new : Piished by the Bismarck Tribune Company, | fighting ships, and thus conclude that the sea’s N. b., and entered at the postoffice at| freedom was not yet inviolate? &s second class mail matter. It may be that we shall have to tell them CF D. President and Publisher something like this: ‘ Subscription Rates Payable In Advance “Your sons died to close an epoch in his- > iy by carrier, ‘per year ........-++ .++$7.20|tory. All of us, from presidents and prime * he = ver year, (in Bismarck) oo 7.20 ete ne to ene clerks. and mechanics, 4 je year, ived in such a way that a great war was in- Fociine of mont, baicta Soolevitable. It came and it surprised us; yet your sons and their young comrades proved to BY us that even in the crash of a falling world er pabsis, pee there can yet be hope. They proved that man- of North Demoww De. 1.60|hood and gallantry exist now as in the old ‘adit Bureau of Circulation days, They proved that men still are willing —_—— eer | ee a Pa to give their lives without eplaint if they iber of A iat iev i 4 ig we Foe Press ts exclusively iceead a the cro be inde 13 ‘able that they will thereby eve Er cnc areiited 10 a anaes ed naiad to “And so we are not discouraged. For that and news of spontaneous origin publ shed herein, All|is a truth worth paying a high price to learn. br od Of republication of all other matter herein are| Slowly this great fact—the eagerness of plain be eserved. John Smith Ue improve the world, even at bia Foreign R tatives cost of his life—is impressing itself on the bei G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY leaders of the world. And some day leaders hig new york - + © Fifth Ave. Bldg. will arise who can seize on this great fact and ICA! DETROIT |use it as a tool to make a world better than we have yet dreamed. So none of your sacri- doer 3 Kresge Bldg. th, (Official City, State and ity Newspaper) fices was in vain, The war was not fought for —| nothing.” of To Gold Star Mothers bes d congress gives its approval, as seems like-} wsome 3,000 Gold Star mothers will be taken redurope at government expense this summer ipezit the graves of their sons. sinus we find that this last war, after ali, in like all other wars, cast in the same pat- Bacei Try and Disbelieve “Of course we're not superstitious and don’t believe in signs, but— “The groundhog saw his shadow Thursday. There is a most ridiculous belief that that sig- nifies we are going to have bad weather for another six weeks. It is all nonsense to pay any attention to such things, nevertheless— “Science isn’t always right, and animals can sense a storm coming long before humans can; everybody knows that (so we hear) and may- be the groundhog has some uncanny sensitive- errs . First the fighting, with its mighty Inder drowning out individual cries of grief; ey the peace, with silk-hatted and gold- faided dignitaries tackling the wrecks left by sh conflict and clearing them up, repairing fim or shoving them off in obscure corners aS SOF ‘Be forgotten; and now the final act, in which| ness about those things. a teugitive procession of bowed, womanly fig- And so Groundhog Day, a most unofficial its makes its way across the stage just be-|holiday, was celebrated throughout the land. of. the curtain is rung down. Nobody knows just. how this superstition it always has been, and so, doubtless, it started. Some say it was brought to this inays will be. The weirdly-painted trans-|country as adapted from Candlemas Day, when ‘ts, the lean destroyers and the rakish, high- the badger was supposed to come forth from Mod erdisers that filled the western ocean a/his hole and, if he saw his shadow, retire for ade ago are gone; gone, too, are the haugh-| six weeks in anticipation of bad weather. neljners that took a president and his entour- Reason tells us that the veterans of the to France after the armistice; in their weather bureau, with their meteorological re- \ ¢hce will go the war's last ships, flying golden} ports and their charts and curves, are the earsooogreddarsrans cries tebe ey irs on the banners that float beneath the|agency on which we should depend. But rea- and stripes. son won't keep many people from being just Yet the starred banners will not be the only|a& little bit inclined to wait and see whether flags flown by these ships. There will be one the groundhog was right. Credulity as to its more flag, unseen by some, but nevertheless | prognostic abilities is so much easier than at- fluttering stoutly ; a flag, we might say, which|tempting to visualize mentally the tortuous bears the single word “Why?” printed on its performances of the weather man. silken folds. And that flag demands an an- -pwering pennant. ‘What ‘answer ‘shall we make? What an- swer, in the. name of Heaven, can we make? None of the ordinary sophistries will do. The stock phrases we have been repeating to our- selves will be out“ of place, almost insulting. ‘A mother who crosses the Atlantic to see the ve of her ‘gon in rede see wees Wiad boy she hag was taken from her and sen if pn strange forces\that she = bald not understand; and now, after 10 years, = ce has a right to ask us for a candid answer > ,, her question. ve >] all we say that it was a war to end war— a : r = ath our nation and all other nations spend-|ed “refined” at the time; the “better peopie’ E vast sums to prepare for a new one? Shall]rather look down on them. But, later on, tell them that it was a war to preserve|monuments are raised to their memory. Salut “Simmer “If that isn’t just like a man!” letter from Nils Johnson Rhoda scoffed when she had read tit, . “ vaftter Che: nd Bob had the-letter. “Wednesday or Thurs fa for the voitice, and even when E ! As if Cherry didn’t have a eeseees Refinement and Reform On February 17 will be celebrated the birth- day of Frances E. Willard, famed temperance worker who, as much as any other person, paved the way for prohibition in this country. It is instructive to read that in the days of her hardest work there was almost no mention of her in the stately “‘ladies’ magazines” -of _ cessoomesevieed baa gra’ : te she did not stand upon the niceties of social observance, but plunged into the fight and made her own rules. That is the way it usually is with people who get great things done. They are not consider- the first thing Johnny knew Lor- etta was making a meal of his finger. Off came the blonde wig to the astonishment of Loretta, where- upon the bird apologized profuse- ly and continued to say, “I am very sorry” the remainder of the after- noon, Besides Loretta, the cast of “Home Made” boasts of such well- known screen players as Margery Daw, Edmund Breese, De Witt Jen- nings, Margaret Seddon, Maud ith had no opportunity to read ‘found herself alone she held the|thing in the world to do but sit square wi nvelope in herjaround with her hands folded, wait- for a long time, dreading to ing for that conceited brother of it. mine to show up! Cherry said at pising her own cowardice, sore: tent | Cats we me cing to a he: ber-handled nail|masquerade ball wi rr. Ani the atlas ren. Wouldn’t it be awful if he f Faith—” Hope quiverec in ° ed came - Wednesday night - and rt. Hi ld not address | missed her? ge that eatery he intended to] “I hadn’t thought of that,” Faith his confession 0o* love for Nils confessed dubious! — “Rhoda writes me that NEWS BRIEFS _ | Lieutenant George T. Towner of the marine corps, on one-stop flight from Washington to Nicaragua, lands at Miami. Tw, ' had been more definite, or that he yhhave been dangerously ill, but|had not asked me to keep his com- 4 ou. are now. recovering. Iling a secret from her. I can’t ask still euffering from the shock |hor to refus> the invitation, without Erte Rockford, Ill, finds John news. Please take the best|giving any reason at all. I told her care of yourself. I was glad she was going—that I guilty of manslaughter for killi Pfiv’ rather keen to get a report|thought she needed some gayety. me = road house keeper during raid. bi ‘erm Rhoda's singing teacher on her What shall we do, Rhoda?” iggress and prospects, and still Rhoda tucked her honey-colored} Senate confiri § Ey eager to see you. I want to head on one side and studied Frith myself that they are taking| through guileless China-blue eves. i gies “y rou. rep kappens, |“You ee awtully pale to me, Mrs. 3 is taking me to Darrow|Hathaway. I honestly think you're ing to be feeling i t a = Bon We from * Td like to drop in on ul by week coe tay or Thursday, if|Wednesday night, and I shan't be let me. I shall wire or tele- ith Hope, Darrow on Wednesday é nfirm, ‘but until then I'd Twenty-nine locomotives of B. and O, railroad are badly damaged I—I have a] in $4,000,000 fire in which road house and machine shops are de-| © stroyed, at Connelsville, Eight men aboard two barges perished when craft sank off Barne- gat Sunday night, the captain of boat towing them reports to Nor- folk owners. abl. to stay previous engagement. maces, NS mails itd Uae, ciate it if you kept m: hoda,” Faith laughed. “No, I’m ‘4 et ean not going to cheat Cherry out of F and Wathaway and me. Of|her party unless I’m _ absolutely ou may drop a hint to|sure Nils is coming on Wednesday. Sreode, if you like. nt Slit he phones that he is, - shall tell {eNow, tons don’t be ili again.{her the truth . and let her decide beaee are too many of us who need| whether she wants to see him or ees os Washington—Senat confirmed] Nils.” go'to the ball.” i Fe@hoda!” Faith sang out joy-| “I’ve always found that it pays to| nomination of Seth W. Richardson hen she heard the patter of |obey Nils, and Nils said she wasn’t} to be United States district attor- ‘Rhoda protested apolo-j ney for North Dakota again. busy feet down the hall. “Nils|to know,’ GR me ergot, Mller of Graf i —— A te hed, when Nils’ sis-| | NEXT: Cherry's costume for the ae jected president of North De- ‘breathlessly into| masquerade ball. kota Ice Cream Manufacturers as- (Cop ht, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) | sociation. O. A. Amundson, James- tay. While stil in his teens, Ray Vere: wen namely re Was Mi lis—Thomas E, From dramatics, World wor veteran, who obtained divorce decree from Mabel Mills of Fargo, N. D., last Monday, died in veterans’ hospital at Fort Snelling. NOTICE TO bm creepers Notice is Og Be a} that the Board of County missioners will reeoive sealed bids up to 3 o'clock p. m., February 8, 1928, for the seems flor use ‘Order of the Board of County jioners. ted this 18th day of January, ed! her day. For she was not considered refined; iy { Washington, Feb. 3.— “If the Army and the Navy Ever look on Heaven’s scenes They willl fi: the streets are guarded By the United States Marines.” apie though the marines’ song ent edly be a few casualties among the innocent bystanders to be taken care of by the heavenly undertakers. In the last batch of bills received from Capitol Hill, one finds without bothering to rake ly these provisions for legislation: To pay th. British overnment $1,000 as indemnity for the death of Sam ject’: To pay tk Chinese $1,000 for the deat: of Che ¢ Lin, “alleged to hee been Pome soldier =t Leichuan in To $2,000 for the death of Juan Sori- ano, killed by a *<arine Corps air- plane landing at Guerr , San Do- mingo, in 1923. To $2,000 Tucker, killed by a U. bulance at Colon, Janama, in 1924, ‘o pay $1,000 for Myrie, killed by a U. 8. in the Canal Z ne in 192: : Also $500 apiece to the Nether- Turner Gordon and Charles Gerard. lends, tone S. government ship Canibas was loading at Rotterdam in 1919 and amounts ranging from $25 Mex. for Mexico to $23,791.35 -@|for Great Britain to several foreign nations in settlement of claims of their gubjects arising out of the oc- cupation by American bluejackets of Vera Cruz in 1914. Austria, France, Germany and Spain cipients. Jury Beyer, self-styled prohibition agent, a Prete eae fe miner ates is provided that all payments shall 2_made “as a matter of WASLI BY RODNEY DUTCHER To pay the Chinese government $500 for a man’s injuries received in THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE S NGTON ; LETTER NEA Service Writer liability therefor.” be self-righteous about it, s+ Thoughtful Jim Watson, from Indiana, introducing regulate amateur boxin, professional boxing in the of Columbia, aimed it not only at “whosoever shall voluntarily engage in a pugilistic encounter between man and man,” but also at he who engages in “a fight between a man and a bull or any other animal.” % Senator Frazier of North Dakota, apparently persuaded by the Inter- national Longfellow Society, that the New England poet should be more highly honored than any other American except Lincoln, has 8 bill to provide coinage of up to 10,000,000 latge one-cent posers bearing a like- low to be issued only the request of the International is there, there will undoubt- e a complete list, Richardson, a British sub- eged” to have been kill 8. marines at Consuelo, Do- Republic. Nov. 1, 1921. government z nees of Longfel ngfellow Society. killed by an J a pitas assat’; by a U. S. marine pense, y the Dominican Republic one pay she British government or the death of Edwin army am- the British government the death of Ethelbert rmy truck come ill, die or both. itch subjects killed New York, Feb. snapshots: banks with their necks .. » go skatin, church on vi are th eother re- over a sign allowed to church.” .. . An ace ani mc, SHOULDNT BE TELLING You His SAKE, BUT MISS cHurcH HAS A CRUSH an Nou LIKE A GRAPE PRESS! axe SHE THINKS You HAVE TH’ MoST FASCINATING EYES, AN THAT YouR, INDIFFERENCE (s ADORABLE aed KIDDING You RE HER COMPOSITE PICTURE OF A “TOOTHPASTE, AN COLLAR without reference to the question of Even in doing the decent thing, we often have to Senator Norris of Nebraska hi + joint resolution providing for a re- union of surviving veterans of the Civil War, on both sides, in Wash- ington this year at government ex- Congressman Dyer of Missouri has another joint resolution providing that a three-fourths vote of a jury may render a verdict. He would also have one or two alternate jurors for all protracted trials, to be herded with the rest of the jurors at all times and ready to dash in as sub- stitutes in case any of the jurors be- + [IN NEW. YORK | 8,—Manhattan Wall Street messen- gers running from sykscraper to skates dangling o Even as the boys of Sauk Center who plan_to after school. . . Th i ‘ashington street where a'statue of the “holy child” hovers reading: “No child: play in front of id St. Malachy’ church in 49th street, where a sign d! reads “the actor’s church”. . each Sunday snorning chorines and stars alike ascendi its steps with prayerbooks in han +» For there are as many regul: jar church-goers among the playfolk of Broadway as among any other class of people. . . . Theatrical weddings are generally held either at St. Little Church «+ In the lat- folk once erected an “act- Henry Ford dodging flivvers near 48th street. sad because been no snow and their ea in bere gies of the Tens of thousands of Fur merchants wringing their hands because the weather has Malachy’s or the Around the Corner. ter stay or’s altar.” YX ters lool Ste ot Christmas sleds stand idl ways... The baby Bronx. « . them! . been so mild. And the Sphinx store on West ou can buy all sorts of assorted Sphinxes. Just who buys a Sphinx, and why, remains a mystery. There is no odder busi- Large and ornate Sphinxes, slight!y dam- aged by the ravages of time, dec- orate the gateway of ancient Cor- In a larg court- ard, just inside the gate, are a zen others in every size and de- 28th street. Here neess place in Manhattan. inthian columns. BEM seee dy of girls on Christmas Day. away. And yet they write fiction about chorines who are invariably bein, d out on wile eating an step} drinking parties; they spin about the girlies who are always ing taken out to dinner. It isi always that way, Mawruss! * 2 © It takes all sorts of “rackets” to make up a street like spear. a brigh oung small | man took over a night clul ha wi About a year ago hepeioesy flopping its wings. struck him. nominations of cofund Hujd & hartesn 4s men-|| OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | bers of federal farm loan board. 2 MISS CHURCH 2m & Ist SHE-TH” ont THAT HELPED Betsy SHE OWNS ALOT { ROSS CUT-TH" STARS? wr KINDA LIKES a will find Perhaps it’s a_ bit late for a Christmas story. But the other day, on Broadway, we heard a story @ fellow who for years has made a habit of feeding homelcss chorus A year ago’ he found 46 chorines who would have eaten in lunch rooms or cafe- terias had he not happened to dis- cover them. This year the word went round chorus circles. A hun- dred girls showed up and he could manage to feed only abcut half of them. The others had to be turned as It 't seem to fly much~better when he put it under new direction. He aapecinanted with one sort of enter- mentandthenanother. It seemed certain that he would go to the wall. And then a bright Barnumesque idea iis knowledge of hu- And|man psychology told him that peo- INSANITY AND TOXEMIA It seems reasonable to assume that insanity is caused by some kind | of a mental kink. 3 Many types of mental instability, accompanied by illusions and hallu- | cinations, have been shown by psy- choanalysts to be due to mental re-) pressions and incoordination of | thought. Besides these mental com- plexes there are other causes of a reat deal to help a cure of any Fenn of insanity, providing it/is not Dr. McCoy will gladly answer nal questions on health and Mick, addressed to him, care of the Tribune, ‘Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. distinctly material nature, such as! caused by structural changes in the brain injuries from poisons, trau- matic injuries, surgical shocks, and venereal diseases. ey : ‘A great deal of private and insti- tutional work has been done both by the psychoanalyst, who is looking for brain. Write to me in care of this news- paper for my special article called “Auto-Intoxication” if you wish, I will gladly mail same to you upon receipt of a large, stamped, ade mental causes, and the surgeon, who/ grossed envelope f- reply. is only concerned with injuries to the brain, itself. Ninety-five per cent of all cases of Too little thought has been given| insanity could be greatly helped if by psychoanalysts to the causes of | & insanity ‘which might come from a} general toxicosis of the whole body. T have never observed a case of any form of insanity where this toxic cause did not exist—at least as one of the causes—and in most cases it seems to me that auto-toxemia is really the primary cause of most mental disorders. In my practice I never waste time iven the treatment with enemas and fasting, followed by a careful diet. And my experience has shown that over fifty per cent of the cases found in institutions can be helped by this method of treatment, supple- mented by psychoanalysis psychotherapy. and QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: Q. S. I. C. writes: “T looking for mental causes until af-|am fourteen years of age and have ter the patient’s body has been thor-| been troubled with catarrh for over oughly cleansed of all toxic wastes, | a Then, if the patient’s thought proc- esses have not adjusted themselves to the normal, it is possible to do very effective work through such methods as psychotherapy or psycho- analysis. A great majority of those of un-} li sound mind may be placed in the dementia praecox class. One of theja main causes of this trouble must be considered as the result of conges- tion in the plevis, either in the uter- us or prostate. Displacement of ab- dominal organs and constipation are contributory causes to the conges- | tion caused by functional inactivity and negative emotional desires. One of the best methods of quick- ly removing toxic wastes is by the arily relieves constipation and helps to produce a more healthful tone through all the pelvic organs. Every case of dementia praecox should be given a few days’ fruit fast in order to assist in the blood-cleans- ing processes and also to relieve pel-|I vie pressure which has been duc to prolapsus of the stomach and intes- tines. When the prolapsed digestive organs are comparatively free from food there is, of course, much less pressure upon the generative or- gans and nerve-plexuses of the lower abdomen. The relief from the usual pressure caused by prolapsus and elimination of bodily toxins will do ple like to go to places where they think they can’t get in. Thereafter, for several -.eeks, whether he had 10 people in the house or 30 he told all applicants for admission t’.at the place was overcrowded and he could not take care of them. The obvior thing happened: they came back an- other night, generally to be met-wjth the same greeting. ‘The general im- pression went around that tr> place ‘was among the most popular in New York. Suddenly a great rush began. Everyone wanted to go because it was noised about that they couldn’t get in. Within a short time the place was actually turning them away. a) And Lew Leslie, for such was the bright young man’s name, became the manager +.ho took the late Flor- ence Mills abroad and knocked Eu- rope for a row of »lanta‘ion songs. The other night he took over the “million dollar” resort that Otto Kahn’s little boy, Roger played with last year and turned it into a “plan- tation” resort, introducing a certain | Adelaid Hall as « Florence’s suc cessor. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) {__Banes J The Society for the Prevention of Useless Christmas Gifts must have failed terribly this year. Just look at the crime wave! . A doctor says the dresses girls wear nowadays cause most of their ill health. But it might be said they are on the road to recovery, at least. Speaking. of the Pan-American conference, we thought the British people could take care of all that, Mayor Thompson says crime has been cut 50 per cent since he was elected. Not content with revising native of the sometimes found as far south as the extreme northern portions of the New England states. antiscorbutic value, both fresh and canned, but I have never been able use of the enema. This also tempor-|to handled in the United States. in the paper.’ Board warden, Clerk. year.. It never leaves me and is worse: in the winter than in sum- mer, especially in the morning upon arising.” Answer: Change your diet so as to exclude all starches, sugars and fats. Follow the weekly menus pub- ished in this column, substituting some kind of fruit wherever I advise starchy meal. Question: Mrs. J. L. asks: “Is there a fruit called the cloudberry and where is it to be found?” —* Answer: The cloudberry is a fruit Arctic regions, and It is of high find where it is commercially Question: B. G. M. asks: “Will you please tell me what to do about an enlarged where it has been cut with glass Has a whitish center. Many place on a child’s lip inks, enjoy and profit by your articles , Answer: The scar on your child’s lip can be removed through plastic surgery. There is no hurr: having this done as it usually caus- es some pain, but it might be well to wait until the child is older when he will not be so aff fd created by the surgical cut or urn, about by the the histories, he’s giving us a little of his own arithmetic, too, Judging from the hand he got, you’d almost think President Cool- ddge swam to Havana. oe the university authorities ni ed automobiles were only ing @ rap at companionate car- Tiages. | (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids (to be opened at meet- ing of the board 10:00 A. M., Satur- day, February 4th, in First Guaranty Aer ae tale somette. alterations to the heating plant of the Will School Annex. Spt ; ject to all usual conditions. particulars see H. School Building. By order of the Acceptances sub- For all 0. Saxvik, High of Education, Richard Pen- (1/25-28-31—2/3) D. B. C. GIRL IS ILLINOIS TEACHER Amy Hoiland recently went from . Dakota Business College, Fargo, as student, to the Oak Park Business (near Chicago), as teacher, a 7 Ao to the thor- oughness of D. B.C. training. schools and colleges employ ‘ De kotans’’ as teachers, secretaries, etc. ee B.C. a poe BUSI- training (copyrighted—u: obtainable elsewhere) attracts the better class of employers, willing to pay good salaries to get good work- ers. Watch for stories of positions, promotions. ‘‘Follow the SucceS$- ful’? Feb. 1-6. Write F. L. Wat- kins, Pres., 806 Front St.,” Fargo. Capital Funeral Parlors Phone—Day cr Night—22 Jos. W. Tschumperlin Prop.