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i PAGE FOUR . France, died the other day at 89. _ especial boast that during his long career he THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928 The Bismarck Tribune An Iadependent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann........... .-President and Publisher Sabscription Rates Payable In Advance Daily by carrier, per year ...........45 Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) . Datly by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck) .....- Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail, in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail, in state, three years for vee 2.60 Weekly by mail, uutside of North Dakota, per year 6 ase 20 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ase for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All fights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. =o Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) 2 aeeanb bien Eatcete mtnttelat ila aeak tia Two Birthday Parties Little Gloria Vanderbilt had a birthday par- ty the other day. 4 Gloria wag four years old, and her birthday party was just about the finest any little girl ever had. There was a magician there to pull rabbits out of hats and make playing cards dis- appear into thin air. There was a real Mother Goose to tell fairy stories. There were Easter lilies, sweet peas and tulips all around the house. The birthday cake was two and onc- half feet tall, and little sugar Cupids were perched on its sides. It was, you see, the kind of birthday party that can be had only by a girl whose daddy hes a great deal of money. It happens that the little girl next door to our house had a birthday the other day, too. Her daddy is an automobile mechanic. He came home an hour early for the occasion. Un- der his arm he had a box, and the little girl spied him half a block from the house. She ran down the street to meet him and threw herself into his arms, and he carried her home, while she fondled the box and tried to peek in- side its tissue paper wrappings. She had the box open before they got to the house. Out of it she drew a new dolly. She squealed, “Oh, Daddy!” and then they went in the house and we lost sight of them. But a little later some other little girls, painfully dressed up in starched dresses, each carrying a little package bought at the five-and-ten, came trooping up to the door, and pretty soon there e the sound of childish laughter and shouts @f glee from the house next door. And a few minutes later daddy went down to the drug store to buy a quart of ice cream, while the mother could be seen in the kitchen ar- ranging some cookies on little plates. And, to our way of thinking, that little girl was a lot happier on her birthday than Gloria Vanderbilt was on hers. Of course, it’s easy to say “money can’t buy everything’; and sémetimes, when we're pinched for a few extra dollars, it seems fool- ish to say it. But it’s true, nevertheless. Only iwo things are needed to make a child happy-- love and kindness; and these two things flower marvelously in homes where there is never a nickel to spare. Three-foot birthday cakes are very fine, and magicians and real live Mother Gooses—or should we say Mother Geese ?—are pretty nice; yet we can’t help feeling just a little sorry for Gloria Vanderbilt. She’s missing so. much, somehow. When you have everything, how are you go- ing to be thrilled by new gifts? And, whea you grow up, how are you going to get any meaning out of life? The thing that gives life its flavor is the overcoming of obstacles, the surmounting of disappointments, the conquer- ing of difficulties. Your life is going to be pretty empty if your father’s money can do all of that for you. We're not sorry forthe little girl next door. But we can’t help feeling that little Gloria Vanderbilt is to be pitied just a little. Are You a Machine? The things that men boaast of sometimes are queer, Theodore Cognacq, wealthiest merchant of It was his never had missed a day at his office. This ‘was a record of which he was highly proud. Industry doubtless is.one of the higher tues; but there is something almost terrifying in the though of M. Cognacq’s devotion to hia business, To convert oneself into a machine, running with monotonous regularity, consum- ing countless columns of figures, taking ov. the functions of cash register and filing cab: net, hardly seems the highest possible develop- ment for which a man may aim. We have all read enough copy books to know that “life is real, life is earnest.” But the man who refuses to spend all of his days in toiling and getting—the man who insists on his heav- en-born right to loaf occasionally—has never been praised half enough. There are times when idleness is a great virtue. For here is the unfortunate thing about a life like that of M. Cognacq: Just when you ae reached the acme of efficiency—just you have become fully. reconciled to the tone against which you are eternally your nose—your life comes to an end. And what have you had? Nothing that the not had in equal measure. : great many things that can be oyed only in idleness. And these things precious 2 Peay are winding through ro! countrysides, where pet- 5 from blossoms drift lazily down u the long spring days. There are 2 ver green mountains, with un- and then where half a out of your heart. ‘are the common property of all 1 a six-year-gld flivver. . bern price. They re- ey all your days. ‘ provide inner retreats to which you can retire without leaving your chair. They furnish conviction that life is a grander, more beauti- ful affair than is dreamed of in offices and factories. And they can be had only by those who know how to loaf. Continued idleness is a curse, of course. But it isn’t much worse than no idleness at all. The man who takes M. Cognacq as his model may become wealthy. But he will not be a man to be envied. Scope of the Press Will Rogers, philosopher in cap and bells, nightly confesses to his audiences that all he knows is “what he sees in the papers”’—and he is representative of a tremendous army. The newspaper is the sole source of informa- tion and knowledge for that vast multitude which limits its daily reading to one or more papers. And the great majority of those who lo not limit their reading to the newspapers turn elsewhere only for entertainment, depend- ing upon their paper to keep them informed on the economic, political, scientific and social state of the nation and world. In any issue of a representative American newspaper one will find reports from the scien- tists, a survey of economic and political condi- i tions, a graphic picture of all strata of con- temporary society, a summary of current his- ~jtory and a mirror of the wit and humor of the jtimes. To the sceing the modern newspaper is a magic crystal in which the gazer can sec the world pass before his eyes. Into each newspaper edition is condensed hundreds of current events without geograph- ical limitation, the essential portions of the writings and utterances of the day, and the latest addition to the “sum of human know!- edge.” If society is better informed today than ever in the past it is because there are more news- paper readers, A New Dirigible Factory Three big cities—Baltimore, Los Angeles and Cleveland—are making strenuous efforts to get the new Goodyear dirigible factory. As American factories go this project isn’t unusually large. The company at present has contracts for only two dirigibles. Yet these three cities are looking to the future. In a few years, they believe, the making of dirig- ee will be one of the country’s great indus- ries, ‘This gives an indication of the future that wise business men see for air travel. If vast developments were not definitely on the hori- zon, these cities wouldn’t be scrambling to get that factory quite so eagerly. Editorial] Comment | en Speed, Specd, More Speed (Christian Science Monitor) Even in these days of high-speed motors, or automobiles moving 200 miles or so an hour, of airplanes piling up even greater distance in an equal amount of time, of washing machines tearing through a “week’s washin’” in less time than it takes to get breakfast, the aver- age layman marvels as he reads of “pictures taken at the rate of 20,000 a second.” A new camera device, developed by Japanese. technicians, acts with such rapidity that even the revolutions of a turbine wheel, 10,000 or them in a minute, may each be impressed upon a plate without even a blur. And if there were an Alice in this modern Wonderland she might be privileged to see this wonderful machine actually photographing air, pictures of which have been already shown to engineers in the United States and elsewhere. What a field for speculation one may find in this new invention. If a superspecd cam- era, negotiating an average of 20,000 pictures a second, should be set at work on a continuous twenty-four-hour contract, the result at the end of the day would be the trifling production of 1,728,000,000 pictures. It would have to work only a few minutes of overtime in order to produce, from sunrise to sunrise, pictures of every person in the world. A Western Hope (New York Times) For twenty years the northwest, with the exception of three men, has not added much national material to the Democratic party. Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota died at a time when it was felt he was coming to be among presidential probabilities. John Burke of North Dakota wound up what seemed a wider prospect as treasurer of the United States. Senator Walsh of Montana is still prominently in the popular eye, but he is the only Democratic northwesterner who is. Therefore the party is regarding with more and more interest A. Scott Bullitt of Seattle, who came within a few votes of defeating Sen- ator Jones, Republican, last fall, and who, ac- cording to newspaper reports in the state of Washington, has more than an even chance to be elected governor this fall. The Republi- cans are divided over Governor Hartley, who Mr. Bullitt seems to have distanced his fellow- townsman, Judge Stephen J. Chadwick, by hay- ing been selected as temporary chairman of the Democratic State Convention in April. If Mr, Bullitt is nominated and elected as governor, a new and colorful national figure will have arisen in the northwest. His ances- tors were the settlers both of Virginia and Kentucky, and his direct progenitor was com- missioned by Patrick Henry to govern the Vir- ginia county which became the state of Ken- tucky. He is a graduate of Princeton, where his campus fame has persisted to this day, and in Kentucky he occupied several offices which he filled with distinction. Removing a decade ago to Seattle, “to convert the heathen there.” he has had unusual political success and plant- ed the banner of the Jeffersonian tradition well north of “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight.” The general newspaper comment on his can- didacy is that he is pro-Smith and wet. Neither of these soft impeachments has Mr Bullitt admitted, but there seems to be no doubt that the Smith adherents in Washing- ton are strongly committed to him and that he is their choice for a delegate-at-large to th Houston convention. A northwestern Demo. crat who has made go much stir wou'd, if elect ed governor of a strongly Republican state, un questionably attract national party attention in 1982. A wet Protestant Kentuckian from the northwest would hold an obvious appeal for the Democrats in the next few years. has announced his intention to run again, and| = MOF RIAL IS CHARGES, BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, Feb, 29.—Those of us who managed to make out our own income tax returns unaided last year ought to be able to do it again. .ne raies remain the same, In fact, one of the very best tips for a taxpayer is the suggestion that he retain a duplicate of his re- turn for reference next year. The figures will be larger, it is to be hoped, but any forgotten kinks of procedure will be there to refresh one’s memory. First, get your return blank. In. cidentally, you will find plenty ot return. If you're a single man earning less than $1,500 net income you're fortunate for two reasons. The second one is that you needn’t file any return. Married persons of less than $3,500 net income are well off in the same respect, but anybody whose gross income is more than $5,000 must fill the blank. The tiny 1040A blanks are for net incomes not above $5,000 when derived chiefly from salaries and wages. The 1040 blanks are for all other individual taxpayers. Net income is gross income minus deductions for such matters as busi- ness. expenses, losses, interest paid, property and taxes other than feder- al income tax. Probably most cf us are especially interested in the deducticns we can take off to lower our taxable or net income. No one should have trouble Interest which has been paid or accrued on indebtedness comes first. The only exception is wher one pays interest on another’s debt. - Taxes on personal property and real estate paid in 1927 are deduct- ible and so are state income tax payments. So are customs duties. Admission taxes, too, but the gov- ernment insists that you must have kept an account of them all year long, which is generally too much bother. curred in a transaction entered into for profit or in case of fire, storm, shipwreck, flood, whether connected with business or not, in so far as they are not covered by insurance. Loss on a house or automobile purchased CARS $f ww Y'sEE, & SustA valuable information attached to the | bad debts, depreciation of business | entering his items of gross income. , Losses are deductible when in-! WASHINGTON LETTER 4) for other than buciness use, for in- stance, may not be deiucted Jew- elry stolen may be counted in, but jewelry merely lost may no’. Bad debts, if incurred on money loaned with expectation of repay- ment, may be deducted. The Bu- reau of Internal Revenue asks for an explanation of these with the return, Contributions to chari- table, religious, scientific, literary, educational or humane organiza- tions may be deducted up to 15 per cent of net income exclusive of them but any one who deducts 15 per cent for contributions had better be to preve them. It is neces- sary to list such contributions on the vowwen, of course, and gifts to in- dividuals don’t count. World War bonuses, pensions and allowance are generally nontaxable. Strike benefit payments aren’t. The value of goods or board and lodging reccived in payment for services is taxable. Traveling ex- penses when on business are de- ductible, except for commuters, but full statements of these should be attached to the return. Depreciation may be claimed on business property ‘or exhaustion, wear and tear and nce, ing form 1040, one must dis- tinguish between earned net income and other income. Salaried persons are entitled to a 25 per cent cut on the former. ‘ All net income up to $5,000 is considered earned net income,’ al- though net earned income means wages, salaries, professional fees and other compensation for personal service. The 25 per cent reduction on the earned net income is provided for on the 1040 forms. Other net income is taxable at the regular rates, which are 1 1-2 per cent on the first $4,000 above personal ex- emption, 3 per cent on the next $4,000 and 5 per cent on the rest. The exemptions are $1,500 for single persons, $3,500 for married persons living together and heads of families, plus additional credit of $400 for each person under 18 years or aged, infirm, ill or mentally de- ficient persons dependent on the tax- payer, which doesn’t include his wife. If one married during the last year, he or she must figure the exemption out proportionately. For some reason, the taxpayer is required to enter stock dividends in BEEN FoR MY CooL’ HEAD WHAT WOoULDA HAPPENED 2 HM-M- = 1F rT HADNT BRAVE DEED As BAHU N MAORI N T WAVE EVERVA tect sae 4 REASON “To ABouT -TH’ BELIEVE Fuss You “THAT Yous HAD WrtH RESORT“ A BOA GRoss EXAGGERATION, ae. WHY Don't You BE TRUTHFUL wrt Your NARRATIONS Like I AM 2, ‘Eliza’ Does Her Stuff - ~QS adding up his income and _ then allowed to deduct them from his net income in computing the final tax- able balance, so there’s no sense concealing those. Everyone knows that income taxes must be taken or sent to the nearest collector of internal revenue by March 15, The important thing to remember is that March 15 isn’t far away now. With a good excuse, one can ar- range with the collector of internal revenue for an extension. There are a maximum of five years in prison, @ $10,000 fine and 50 per cent of the tax, provided for those who file fraudulent returns, Bear in mind that everyone who pays anyone else money in excess of the $1,500 and $3,500 exemption figures is required to report these payments to the government. The government claims to check these reports with our individual returns er ag to be all set to grab us if we OO Se Mae Murray’s pene wes arrested for speeding in California and gave as his occupation “husband.” genes! in Hollyw.od, too! No matter how many, hotel_rooms Kansas City musters for the Repub- lican convention, there will be too many rumors. |. Florida is a place where le | keep happy and healthful all winter | by sending home pictures of them- selves in their shirt-sleeves. Now Senator Fess tells the Senate he was pal apeatne the correspond- ents when he told them Coolidge was angry with him about that draft talk. Senator Fess probably is the first senator who ever lied Paper men. nie Judging from the talk going around it hasn't been decided finally whether the Democrats will convene in Hewston, Howston or Hooston, to news- Some policemen are not very ar- io fi _ 3 One of the best ways to give ad- vice is to listen, (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) GONE WRONG Judge (to girl prisoner): Are you innocent? Girl Prisoner: Oh, no, Judge. T’ve seen every show in town.—Life. | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | SWeeVoul ASK ME“TO“TELL ABouT TH’ Time I WAS A BRAKEMAAN ON A R RUA-AWAY “TANK CAR FULL OF NiTRo- S$ | GLINCERINE, — WELL YES, THAT WAS A KIND OF “THRILL, ~TH’ CAR STARTED DOWN A FIVE MILE GRADE, HEADIA’ FoR-TOWN, wx’ BRAKE WHEEL WOULDAYT WorK,.I CRAWLED iS UNDER ON A BEAM, AN’ OPENED UP A ¥ouR INCH VALVE, LETTIN’ Td’ AtTRo POUR oUT ON-TH’ TIES, Just AS-TH’ LAST PINT DRAINED, I HOPPED OFF AN’ A MINUTE LATER “TH’ RUN- AWAY CRASHED INTO A STRING OF LOADED GASOLINE “TANK N Consstictor | RAISE BOTH HAIRS de various penalties, but the worst is} f BARBS We wits Toe Fast THE NEW “AMERICAN PLAN” Many changes have been made in our dietary habits from the days! of the diet of the American Indian| and early settlers to our present) common plan of seeing how many! kinds of food and how much we can) use at each meal. The response to these health andj diet articles is so tremendous that I know the. time is fast approaching when we will have evolved a new; “American Plan” of eating, where/ the diner will carefully consider each meal from the standpoint of the quality of the food used, the quantity of each Kind, and the way these foods are combined. | Hundreds of thousands of readers | heve written to me asking for scn- sible diet lists. All such corre- | spondents have been replied to, and other letters from these same cor-| respondents encourage me to bi live that the majority are tryi follow a systematic plan of which will assure them bette The weekly menus being pub! this column each Saturday are being followed by millions all over t North American continent. | I wish my readers could spend a day or two in reading the wonderful, letters in my files, from readers who tell me of the good results they are receiving. It would be such a source! of great encouragement to them. In many cases these letters tell of the! cure of diseases through following} these diets after many other methods | of treatment had failed and their cases were given up as hopeless. Those readers who have been only casually reading these articles will surely be surprised and delighted if they will just try living for a week or two on the menus whick are recommended in this column each| Saturday. Just try the simple egg,| toast, and stewed fruit breakfast, | the plain but delicious luncheor and| the sensible, appetizing dinners. It surely will not be very hard to try) this dieting for a week or two, as enough variety is offered, the meals are not expensive and are, indeed, thorouchly satisfying. In the daily articles I try to give you as much as possible about my theories of the philosophy of correct eeding. It will not take you over five minutes each day to read this article, and I doubt if anything else in this paper will give you so much help each day. T have prepared .. special list of helpful menus. You may write to me for this article and I will be glad to send it to you bv mail. Ask for the article called “Helpful Menus” | and send a stamped, addressed, large envelope for your reply. If you will learn the philosophy of correct eating you will soon be able |i to select your own meals, as the|s choosing of good combinations will ecome almost automatic after while. Read all of the health magazines you can find time for, compare the different theories about food, and Their Letkers BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES Marye, dearest. Well, of course you know what I think about a woman smoking, but maybe it’s just that I can't get used to it. I don’t know, but it always gives me an uneasy feel- ing to see any woman with a cigaret in her mouth. I can’t help suspect- ing that she’s ‘a little fast. I think that’s how men who don’t like it feel too. And you can’t blame a man for objecting to seé¢ing nice girls do something he associates with the other kind. I supy~se there are men who object to it because they say it’s a man’s pr'vilege. Now that would have anhoyed @ young woman even in my day, Marye dear, because wor:en never did like men to assume exclusive privileges. Only the: didn’t come out in the open and fight about it as you girls do today. But be sure oe know why men don’t like it fore you jump on them. And re- member, too, if you strike at a man’s belief that he is Icrd of all creation you are trying to take away a prop he has leaned on for ages. For my part I think it would be @ pitiful sight to see a ma:. pulled down like that, It seems to me that women want to climb i*~ht up over men. climb a pedestal and ay exchenge ticker room the crowing for a while. may be fair but you're in such a hurry about it you won’t give the poor things a chance to get out of the way. So \hen you get to the top you will have to look down at a world of men who have lost their self-confidence. . It took a long time for the rela- tions between men and women to reach the present, state, and now women want to cMance it all over- night. We had plenty of time to get used to a man’s world but the modern woma- wants to make it &@ woman's world all in a cay. Please be care“al how you handle Alan, Marye my girl, becaus for all our wanting to stand ‘on our own feet—and'don’t think that’s an orig- incl idea with women—some of us who are older and wiser realize that we can’t chenge so much in one gen- eration. Some people say we really are drifting toward z, womn's world, Well. I hone we don’t reach it before we're ready “or it. And‘ 2re’s still oue woman who blesses our Lo: she has a steunch-hearted husband to lean on in times of trouble, ‘ With all my love, + MOM. NEXT: Florence's experience. — OO fINNEW YORK * oo ~ New York, Feb, 29.—Thete is a hotel in the heart of the Times Square district which, despite _ its. accommodations and equipmcnt, has no rooms to rent nor food to sell. (HEALTH DIET ADVICE . & Dr Franks M ; eth C4 TONS IN REGARD TO HEALTH C DIET | electric signs that would make the White Way brighter, that the idea | this c Coy . when you do not understand a cer. tain point, write to me in care of the Tribune and I will be glad to answer your questions for you as Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health diet, addressed to him. care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. well as to send you special diets or information regarding the diet to be ed to assist in the cure of any icular ailment. This olumn is run for only one ftoe and that is for your benefit. ff you.do not take advantage of your opportunity to secure more health and diet information, it may be because you think you are healthy ough already, or believe that other nterests are more important than |the cultivation of perfect health, ESTIONS AND ANSWERS : H. H. asks: “What the symptoms of a brain tumor, i the duration? Is there no cure?” Answer: I have seen cases of apparent brain tumor which have responded to the fasting cure, A small percentage of cases has been cured by surgery. The symptoms may be those of paralysis in some part of the body, or there may be sr..smodic twitchines in the muscles that are connected with the nerves in the brain, which are pressed upon. Often a pupil of one eye will be dilated and the other contracted. A nerve specialist should be called to make the diagnosis of the case you write about. Question: A. M. L. writes: “Will you kindly state whether or not Melba toast contains starch, and how does the starch content compare with ordinary wholewheat toast? Is Melba toast all right to use in com- bination with eggs and milk dishes, cheese, cottage cheese, junket, etc.?” Answer: — Melba toast is made from white bread toasted so thor- oughly that all of the starch is dextrinized. It is therefore pur: dextrose, and combines _ perfectly with any other kind of food. Question: Mrs. Flatbush writes: “I have been following your diet for three months, have lost twenty pounds, am feeling fine, and sleep like a log. Blood was a little thick and liver sluggish but these condi- tions have greatly improved. Can you tell me the cause of a roaring in the ears, like the sound of hissing steam? It does not trouble me eee would be glad to get pat of it,” The roaring in the ears ther from catarrh of the or from high blood pres- Have your doctor take your blood pressure and in this way estab- lish the cause of the trouble. You can then take the proper. dietetic treatment to cure either of the con- ditions mentioned, [It was found that such fat sums of running a hotel was given up. I am told that some bright busi- ss men saw the possibilities of location for signs and pur- chased it, knowing full well that the building of the signs would so obscure the sunlight from the rooms that it would be difficult to rent them. The ground floor is oc- cupied by stores and there is a lit- tle beauty parlor on the first floor. Thereafter the building is com- pletely covered with electric eye catchers. Which reminds me that a bat- tle is now under way for the pre- servation of the Great White Way. This New York attraction, which is about the first thing a visitor seeks out, is menaced by a city or- dinance that would rob Broadway of its glitter. It’s impossible to conceive a darkened B: way. But, then, it isn’t likely to happen! es Most of the wealthy guests in the big Manhattan hotels bring valua- ble dogs with them and demand suitable accommodations. I am told that several of them found these guests so particular about the care of their pets that special service is given for a stip- ulated sum. A nightly rental is paid for the dog quarters, even as for the room. Meals are served the canines at 50 cents per meal, and special dog experts prepare the food. The kennels are so equipped that they give the traveling purps every accommodation. n. There are few things the big Manhattan hotels overlook. Most f them are equipped with a stock board, so hat the busy traveler can keep track of his gambl while on the run, Some of them have tickers in their rooms. Most of the bigger clubs have them also, The er lays a predominant role in the usiness life of the city. Gymnasiums, turkish baths, swimming pools, tennis courts and hand ball courts on the top floors and roofs are the latest hotel vogues, eee It is said of Broadway that its producers “never’ learn.” Last season Russell Janey put on an elaborate production of “The Vag- abond Prince” and made a healt! fortune. He might have sat bac! in ease and | . Instead of which he was right back after more. This year his “White Eagle” se a oe st aes urse pocket. an “ft is said’ on Broadway. that th is said on 6 only concern that ever “let well enough alone” were the producers of “The Bat,” which made “plenty.” And they kept it. i This noon I ~had lunch with a oung lay who informed me it had just cost $88 to have her hair wrinkled in some way or another. Which extravagance so me that I lét her pay the check. ERT SWAN. Gl (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) 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