The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1928, Page 4

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All ts of republication of all other matter herein are Feserv: Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK + - « Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Terns Bun. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ———— gre dcera thus tamale 2 Our Ten Greatest Men John Haynes Holmes, pastor of New York’s famous Community church, undertook the other night to draw up a list of the ten great- est Americans. The surest way to start an argument is to! and Brooks’ “The Ordeal of Mark Twain.” Add to them a few such books as Thoreau’s “Wal- den” and Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Or, better yet, buy these books; they’re worth keeping. Then read them. Study them close- ly—absorb them. You'll find it a most worth- while experience; and you'll understand why Mr. Holmes put these men on his list. Receding Birth Rate Records over a long period of time show that the birth rate of the United States has been falling rapidly while the marriage rate has been slowly rising. Since 1887 the marriag2 rate has increased from 8.7 per thousand of population to 10.2 at the present. The birth rate dropped from 40 per thousand of popula- tion in 1880 to 21 in 1927. The marriage rate here is higher than any European country for a number of reasons, but chiefly because of the more favorable eco- nomic conditions. But, high as these living standards are, economic conditions here are unfavorable for large families among certain classes of Americans. The birth rate over the country as a whole would be still lower if it were not for the large foreign population and the large numbers of illiterate Americans among whom the birth |rate \runs higher than the average for all jclasses. Were it not for these elements, the |national birth rate unquestionably would be | the lowest in the world. As it is, all signs {point to the population becoming stationary within a few years. This news comes,as a surprise to the public make a list of “the ten greatest”—whether it; which, conscious of the great territorial ex- be a list of men, books, plays or race horses.|tent and the unparalleled prosperity of the Mr. Holmes, limiting himself to men who were!country, has assumed that the population has born after the adeption of the constitution in 1789, and refusing to consider any who are now living, selected the following names: | || Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Gari - son, Theodore Parker, Robert E. Lee, Wait * Whitman, Mark Twain, Charles W. Eliot and Eugene V. Debs. His list is worth studying, even though all of us probably would like to amend it here) and there. The variety of activities repre-| sented on it*is rather surprising. There are} two philosophers, one president, one soldier} one poet, one satirist, one theologian, one edu-} cator, two—well, perhaps we can lump Debs and Garrison together as “two agitators.” On what basis do you suppose this list was} selected? What quality, if any, did these ten men have in common? To begin with, each of them lacked the great) American instinct of conformity. Not one of them ever was swayed in his actions by any fear of what people might think or by any con- sideration of the effect upon his own fortunes. From Garrison, who was often in danger of lynching, to Lee, who spurned the highest of- fice Lincoln could offer him, these men were} independent; they thought for themselves and; could be moved from their set courses by no power on earth. | Perhaps we can express the matter best by Saying that these ten men were, above ail, brave men. And bravery is a virtue worth prizing highly—especially in this age, when men who seek high office walk on eggs for fear of offending some of us. And it doesn’t particularly matter that some of these men were beaten men. Lee, for in- stance, fought for a lost cause and went down to defeat. Debs died with everything he had ever fought for crushed. Yet that hardly Matters. The important fact is that both Lee and Debs lived; that they built up heroic lives —not for us to agree with, necessarily, but for us to admire. They lost their fights, but America is a better country because they lived. So is it with the rest of them. Some, like | Lincoln, left great, concrete achievements. * Others, like Thoreau and Whitman, left noth- '- ing but a few books, which remain ignored by the majority to this day. But each contrib- uted something; each, dissatisfied with the state of things that surrounded him, spent his life in an effort to remedy them. . Undoubtedly you could amend this list. A great many names are left off that could be - put in with perfect justice; Roosevelt and ryan will have many supporters, and so will Daniel Webster and Jefferson Davis and John _ Hay. America has had many great men. Some day, when you’re looking for some- + thing to read, go to the library and draw a few | books on these men. Get Maurice’s “‘Lee, the Soldier’; Sandburg’s “Abraham Lincoln”; continued to keep pace with other phases of jnational development. One compensating factor is a death rate {that has been receding faster than the birth jrate. There is no immediate danger of race {suicide, and this country is in a position ditf- ferent from such nations as France, where the death rate is still disproportionately high. Wealth in Waste General Lord, director of the budget, is ju- bilant when some department or bureau in Washington saves a few thousands of dollars by such scrutinizing economy as leaving the decorative blue stripe out of the canvas used for mail bags, or by using second-hand paper clips. The catchpenny economists of the budget bureau have saved the taxpayers some thousands of dollars, sometimes resorting to ingenious devices, but, they can still learn something in this direction from big business. When the mah jong fad took the country by storm the packing companies made a few extra millions profit by sending the shin bones of butchered cattle to China to be converted into mah jong “tiles.” The great fortunes in the packing industry were built upon by-prod- ucts, not from chops and steaks. It has been said of one of the packing con- cerns that it used everything from the pig but the squeal, The slogan applies equally well to the cov. A Chicago concern that kills about 2,000,000 cattle each year has each gall bladder searched for gall stones. They are used as charms in the Orient and are ground for a medicinal preparation in this country. ; -In his economy campaign President Coolidge ‘should have handed out a few dollar-a-year | jobs to the by-product inventors for the meat jpackers. The most cautious would risk a jlarge wager they would find ways and means of cutting down government expenses. They, at least, would not begin their work by seek- ing new jobs to be filled. Much public money would be saved if politicians and officeholders were not concerned with saving jobs for other politicians. Can Cities Be Too Big? And now they are predicting that Chicago, in the near future, will be a city with a radius of 150 miles from the center of its downtown district to the city limits. This implies a tremendous amount of growth, and doubtless has set Chicago’s boost- ers to singing roundelays at a great rate. But will it, after all, be an unalloyed bless- ing? Isn’t there a limit beyond which big- ness ceases to be desirable? New York, eyen now, is too big; too big, that is, for the com- fort of the average resident. It is just possible that sooner or later cities will try to find ways to keep from expanding. rather than doing all in their power to increase Carman’s “The Heart of Emerson’s Journals” BY WILLIAM F. BROOKS . CAssociated Press Keature Editor) id “all the fixi | | Washington, February 8—(?)— eral Su : | Harvey's, the last of the capital’s pre-prohibition restaurants, | at his funeral. Senator Ollie James of Kentucky and Representative Colbert of Illi- noise were two patrons. called for a giant as an appetizer meal of corn beef “Senator Ollie” would put on the table and in his memory, Louis, California. Every day Wade served the general with Maryland chicken eral Sutter died in his room at the hotel and Wade held a place of honor hows as perhs; the “most famous.” ne ” too, has had his celebrated President Roosevelt, Presi- their size. be of benefit to plants making this product at Fargo, and Schmidt, N. D., which manufacture large quan- tities of pipe for use on highway construction projects. The new rates apply only to intrastate ship- ments in carload Jots. Evidence presented at the hearing in the matter before the railroad board Mage rogenrd she reinforced concrete pipe industry is compara- tively new in North Dakota. The North Dakota Concrete Products company of Mandan, which operates the new industry. They contended that the freight rate structure was not designed to meet the needs of pounds for the first 10 miles, six that freight costs increased so ra- pidly for distances beyond 25 miles that the existing rates were exor- Colbert usually| bitant and out of all proportion In 1880 Gen- other of “ Wade’s ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE YOU GOING IN SUCH A ? WASHINGTON LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington—It now appears cer- tain that the two presidential can- didates will be nominated at the na- tional conventions arid not before. The instruction season will soon be at hand. There will be primaries which, history shows, have yet to decide a nomination, and there will be state conventions, which will be considerably more important. In both of them, it appears, the elehtie will be working the old favorite son and uninstructed dele- gation game as hard as ever. This applies to both parties, but at the moment one is forced to suspect that that method will provide more nour- ishment for the politicians who ho) to stop Hoover than for those who want to stop Smith. The situation also holds considerably more com- fort for those who have Vice Presi- dent Dawes on their minds than for these Democrats who would pass the ball to Reed or else like Owen Young. As far as the Republicans are concerned, Massachusetts is Be in the air. Hoover's friends have been busy there, but the delegation prob- ably will go to Kansas City and vote at first for Governor Fuller unless Fuller forbids it, New York politicians have agreed to send an unins' legation. What this delegation will do at the convention is uncertain. In_ Pennsylvania, Mr Mellon and Mr. Vare have yet to pass the word down the line. The delegation is expected to go instructed for Mellon. It may later switch to Hoover and it | portrayal may not. see Senator Frank~ Willis seems to have -the Ohio delegation sewed up and the Hoover people don’t seem to be especially happy about that, as it may eventually be turned over to Dawes. “a A similar, though, more definitely outlined situation, prevails in Indi- ana, which will send a favorite son delegation for Senator Jim Watson, who wants Dawes, Illinois politicians, having’ about four candidates-from their own state, are nearly all anti-Hoover. Lowden may. get a solid Illinois delegation, which presumably means a wes delegation sooner or later. It must be remembered, of course, TLL FIND OUT ATURU TACT, (F ATHEM TWO SKINNY GUYS HERE, ARE OILING. ME ABOUT Miss CHURCH BEING WEALTHY !. order of corn pone| when compared with freight rates before ordering aj on concrete pipe prevailing in other and cabbage, while | states, 2 his feet} The new rates, which will be- call for a double} come effective March 1, provide a charge of 5 1-2 cents per 100 pounds for the first 10) miles, six cents for 15 miles and a gradually increasing which reaches a maximum of 26 cents for 750 miles. down| The joint line rates will be 1 1-2 cents per 100 pounds higher than the single line rates. The minimum weight per carload was fixed at 30, pounds, Power Company Buys Plants In other cases decided tye board the Montana-Dakota Power com! ‘was authorized to buy from Eastern Montana Light eg ay y. ty at Beach an - tinel Butte and the transmission line from the Montana state line to oR Woolen or someone] R, MUCH MONEY fw that Hoover is out in front. Although his wagon has apparently slowed up somewhat, it may finish in a of speed. Hoover has lined up some excellent politicians who are actively engaged in promoting his campaign. There is more or less Hoover strength nearly everywhere, where- as Lowden hasn’t penetrated either the cast or the Pacific coast, and the extent of the Dawes strength is unrevealed. Turning to the Democrats, Smith will have either all or nearly all the delegates from New York, Massa- chusetts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. His enemies hope that Indiana will oppose him to the last and they even contend that Governor Donahey may be able to keep the Ohio delegation fi from him. But :t is more generally supposed that Ohio at least, having voted at first for Atlee Pomerene, will turn to Smith, Anti-Smith hopes, in fact, look rather desperate. The candidacy of eed of Missouri marks the appear- ance of the first strong candidate against him, but right now the only seeming significant fact about that seems to be the belief of many Mis- sourians that Reed strength will la- ter be Smith strength. [ | IN NEW YORK | Sr New York, Feb. 8.—Scattered leaves from a week’s notebook... . Backstage to call upon Roland Young and found there a merry party congratulating him on his of the ineffectual king in ‘The Queen’s Husband,” which is Robert Sherwood’s little joke on Queen Marie’s visit to America. ... And there was Gilbert Seldes, the erudite essayist and his wife, and John Farrar, who used to edit Bookman, and his wife, who used to edit crossword puzzles, and Al Wood’s son and some others. ... And found Mons. Young proudly displayingg the “property” medals he has to wear on his costume. . . . And among those present was a young man who had come from Ru- mania in a reportorial capacity to “cover” Queen Marie’s trip and who rel some amusing tales, which might be unethical to relate out of school. ... And, wandering down Broadway, SAY AMos, How's: MARTHA Dow” WITH Td’ BOARDIN’ House? mua MAKIN’ ANY ¢ PROFIT, OR DUST BREAKIN’ EVEN 2 ~~ “REASON I ASK, 1S LE \WITH BOARDERS oF Miss CHURCHS “TYPE, ~ ~~ SHE DONT WORK, aa I APPEAR-10 HAVE ! | can be fussed. .. . Arrivin; Wi ‘became enthralled with the antics of a beturbaned gent, who probably hails from the Bronx. He was do- ing some very grand card tricks and such, until a small boy demanded to know whether he cou!’ “do the one with the four aces an the four kings....” And for the first time in my life I found that a “pitch” man at the of- fice of my daily toil, I found there Ben Lucien Burman, who writes se- rials and stories and such, waiti to bid me -by.... And he tol me of how Evelyn Scott, the novelist, had rented him a house on an oasis in the desert, about 200 n.iles from nowhere, and in a city where life went on as it had hundreds of years ago and where you could not ven- ture outside the walls without a because of the bands of rov- standing with drawn guns at the corner of 42nd Broadway... . And, around the corner, saw two lain clothes detectives trailing a ‘famous “dip.” Watched three autos crash just under the Sixt: Avenue elevated and came upon two women trying to pull each sther’s hair out in the Library square. . . Where- upon, I decided that perhaps New York was not so unadventurous a place, eee You ov] anes cal areet the “off- stage” affairs of Broadway’s prom- inent folk At a public gathering the other night—one of those Broadway “testimonial” dinners— two famous black-face comedians lauded each other in ple speech- es and then all but fell into each other’® arms. Yet they had not ae each other for gare ypical “stage quarrel of the fact that one of! comedians had supedces in a film version of a play in which the other had been starred. eee an art student who had been do- ing this for a living and who has just returned from studying in LD-THAT You AND DONE QUARTER OF MiSs CHURCH'S WEALTH # e HAW, SHE WAS MADE SOLE HEIR. “To AN IMMENSE FORTUNE YEARS Aéo, OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA fe, (~~ MONEY 2. HaW-W-w-. sHé HAS SKADS, OF ITf, had| Nils acknowledged. D FATIGUE CAUSES COLDS . It is not difficult to understand som the reasons why more peo- Pp month than at any other time in the year. It is ridiculous to hear the reasons given by most people who blame their colds on “cate! jing” them from someone else, exposure to cold, or sitting in a draft. Upon careful observation it has been found that those who work out-of-doors at this time of year do not suffer as much from colds as those who work indoors, and who coddle themselves with heavy cloth- a every time they step outdoors. lying men, Alpine climbers, street corner men, newsboys, post- men and farmers are comparatively free from colds except during their on times when they stay in- During the wat the soldiers at the front. who were exposed in the trenches and the sailors who worked in all kinds of weather had a high record against contracting colds as compared with those who stayed at home and worked in offices. As I have studied thé causes of colds with thousands of patients, it seems to me there are only two main causes: fatigue and overeating. February colds can be blamed mostly on the use of the high calory foods which most people indulge in during the winter months. Usually by February the body is so stuffed with food excesses that the system attempts to throw out such toxic wastes through producing copious exudations through the mucous mem- branes. When this does not happen, some other internal disease de- velops. jose who become fatigued from mental overwork, from worry, or from the nerve-racking exhaustion from shopping, easily develop colds ‘ause they are too enervated to Properly carry on the normal elimi- nation of toxins through the skin, lungs, kidneys, and bowels, The enervated person is always toxic, with usually a sluggish liver, and with constipation and its attendant perils. One who overworks wastes energy cannot have enough energy left to kecp metabolism prop- erly balanced; he can consider him- self fortunate if only a cold de- velops and not some other more seri- tees one has not developed a severe cold by this time of the iy he can do well to take the warning from this article and immediately cut down on his food supply, and most of the heavy foods which he has been us- oF opener ire subject to colds during this} WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1928 (HEALIH“DIET ADVICE Si Dr Frank Mc “be tear Bley 2» Mol \] ments will assist én cleansing the alimentary canal of' accumulated wastes, and this will make the diet- Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of ue) inane na nclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. ary changes more pronounced in their effect. I recently wrote an article called “That Tired Feeling,” and will send the article to you for your further guidance if you write to me asking for it. Just ask me in Mi letter to send my article called “That Tired Feeling.” This is the season for parties and indoor festivities. It may be well for the reader to check up on how many hours he is wasting each week, and how much energy he is wasting goin; to parties. Spend some of the hours in recreation in outdoor sports and not so much time around the fireplace or in stuffy offices. Regulate your hours so that not more than eight hours are spent for work, and at least two hours each day used for outdoor exercise. Pin this advice on your mifror, and look at it every morning for the next few months. QUESTIONS AND, ANSWERS Question: B. T. asks: “What is locomotor ataxia, and what is the cause and cure—if there is a cure?” Answer: Locomotor ataxia is caused by some interference with the nerve supply going to the'legs. This occurs principally in the lumbar re- gion of the spine. A cure is pos- sible in the early stages, and in to- day’s mail L read a letter from a correspondent who has been entirely cured through following the advice she received through this health ser- vice. This patient reports that be- fore starting the treatment she could not walk at all and that four lead- ing physicians in her home town Kad declared her case hopeless. Her cure was effected through proper dietetic and hygienic rules, and no other treatment than this was ad- vised. Special instructions will be sent to anyone upon request. Question: John W. asks: “I am greatly troubled with chilblains. What remedy would you suggest?” Answer: The best treatment for chilblains is to give yourself a treat- ing more or less as a “habit” during | the winter months. A few days’ course of enema treat- ment each day by immersing the feet alternately in hot and cold water. This will help the circulation and will usually get rid of all the bad effects which have come from having the feet frost-bitten. f Salut “Sumer Rhoda’s China-blue eyes were as} to live within twenty miles of het wide and eager with surprise as a child’s. “Oh, tell me, Nils! But of course anything you have donc is} po right. I don’t know anything about business!” “Good girl!” Nils laughed husk- ily, as he drew her plump body rites to his side. “It’s a pleasure to be your guardian. The fact is, honey, I’ve taken an option on a big dairy farm between here and Darrow—the Sweet-Clover Dairy Company’s outfit, You know the place, I suppose, Mr. Hathaway?” Bob nodded. “Fine property, but the buildings are rather dilap- idated. They used to do the big- gest business in the state.” Rhoda squealed with excitement. “You're selling our farm, Nils? Hozest? You're going to live here? Oh, Nils! I’m so happy!" “I thought you'd be pleased,” ‘She always hated our farm,” he explained to Faith and Bob. The girl’s face fell. home town and her family. } wanted her to care enough to live rhage with me,” he added stub- nly, “I must say, Nils,” Bob laughed ruefully, “that your courting tac- tics are fair-to-middling curious, to put it mildly. You seem to be dar- ing Cherry to marry you, rather than asking her.” “Exactly,” Nils grinned, but Faith noted that there was a white line of pain about his lips. “By the way, Mr. Hathaway, you are an architect—” “Not at all ‘by the way,’” Bob laughed. “I take myself pretty seriously as an architect.” “I hear you have, just cause to,” Nils answered gravely. “I’ve made inquiries. You said a while ago that the Sweet-Clover buildings are rather dilapidated. They’re worse than that. I want to wreck the whole outfit and build a model dairy plant there, including a home. I'm going to Holland to study their “You mean} methods, said to be the best. in the —TI'll have to leave Mrs. Hatha-| world, but while I’m gone I'd like way?” she faltered. “I am flattered!” Nils pretended] struction. I'g to be more indignant, than he was.| bine honeymooning an think I am movingjhe added brusquel; “What do you to this of the country for, if “You're moving here go Cherry| see it? will be willing to ma: Rhoda “You Sod becy lanell ons thi” a erself on a farm. “That rt Me with my runaway sis-| with pleasure. for the buildings to be under con- rather hoped to com- business,” “Holland?” Bob's face lighted “ve got a book full of Dutch architecture. Like to I use the sun parlor as you,”|an office for home work and study. knew she| Come along: M: away off.to Minnesota} have the house and bartis—’ ly idea would be to The door into th sun parlor it’s where you're wrong,| closed on the two blonde men Rhoda. “I’ve been negotiating for and Faith closed her renege the sale of our place and the chase of Swee' early in September, ‘before I'd met . But I didn’t try to influ- jur-|as she had never prayed in her lover Farm since} life. ' NEXT: Cherry blown in on a to take me by teling her| *empest. ence her that in all probability she’d be able! (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ————________. Paris. He paid for his Paris tu- ition by steering tourist bus pants into the cafe. \ SWAN. - GILBERT (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) | [BARBS] An Ohio bank embezzler said he had to have the finest radio on the market. 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